Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗name
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA female given name from Aramaic or Hebrew. · The mother of Jesus; believed in Christianity and Islam to have been a virgin, and believed by most Christians to have been born herself without sin, to have been assumed into Heaven without death, and to act as a sympathetic intercessor for believers. · Mary Magdalene, a disciple of Jesus. · Mary of Bethany, the sister of Lazarus and Martha.
Etymology tree Biblical Hebrew מִרְיָם (miryɔm)bor. Aramaic מריםbor. Koine Greek Μᾰρῐ́ᾱ (Mărĭ́ā)bor. Latin Marīa Old French Mariebor. Middle English Marie English Mary From Middle English Marie, from Old French Marie, from Latin Maria, from Ancient Greek Μαρία (María), Μαριάμ (Mariám), from post-Biblical Hebrew and Aramaic מַרְיָם (Maryām), from Biblical Hebrew מִרְיָם (Miryām), of uncertain meaning. (See the Hebrew entry for more.) Doublet of Miriam, Marie, Maria, and Mariah.
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