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See also:Marý,mary,andmáry

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Etymology 1

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A depiction of Mary, mother of Jesus, praying in quiet devotion (The Virgin in Prayer bySassoferrato,c. 1650)

FromMiddle EnglishMarie, fromOld FrenchMarie, fromLatinMaria, fromAncient GreekΜαρία(María),Μαριάμ(Mariám), fromAramaicמַרְיָם(maryām) orBiblical Hebrewמִרְיָם(miryām), of uncertain meaning (see the Hebrew entry for more).Doublet ofMiriam,Marie,Maria, andMariah.

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Mary (pluralMarysorMaries)

  1. A femalegiven name from Aramaic or Hebrew.
    • 1821, Lord Byron,Don Juan, Canto the Fifth: IV:
      I have a passion for the name ofMary,
      For once it was a magic sound to me:
      And still it half calls up the realm of fairy
      Where I beheld what never was to be.
    • 1830, Mary Russell Mitford,Our Village: Cottage Names:
      Mary, which is as common as a white violet, and like that has something indestructibly sweet and simple, and fit for all wear, high or low, suits the cottage or the palace, the garden or the field, the pretty and the ugly, the old and the young;
    • 1905George M.Cohan,Forty-Five Minutes from Broadway, Mary is a Grand Old Name ( a song)
      For it wasMary;Mary / Plain as any name can be / But with propriety, society / Will say "Marie". / But it wasMary;Mary / Long before the fashions came / And there's something there that sounds so square / It's a grand old name.
    • 1996,Maeve Binchy,This Year It Will Be Different: A Christmas Treasury, Hachette UK, published2008,→ISBN:
      They had called their children Ann,Mary, and John as a reaction against their own fancy tricksy names. Both mothers thought these names sadly unimaginative and each blamed the child of the other for the lack of vision and style.
  3. (religion) Themother ofJesus,believed inChristianity andIslam to have been avirgin at hisbirth, andbelieved bysome Christians to have beenbornherself withoutsin, to haveascended toHeaven withoutdeath, and toact as asympatheticintermediary forbelievers.
  4. (biblical) Any of several other women in theNew Testament, notably:
    1. Mary Magdalene, adisciple ofJesus.
    2. Mary of Bethany, the sister ofLazarus andMartha.
  5. (Islam) The 19thsura (chapter) of theQur'an, recounting the events leading up to thebirth ofJesus.
    Synonym:Maryam
  6. (chiefly US, gayslang)A term of address for amalehomosexual.[1925]
    Synonyms:nancy,nan;see alsoThesaurus:male homosexual
    • 1941, G. Legman,Sex Variants, volume II, page1171:
      Note also that male homosexuals will call most anyoneBessie orMary, e.g. ‘Oh,Bessie, you're acamp!’
    • 1985, W. Dynes,Homolexis, page150:
      In America in the 1950s,...Mary was often used in thevocative to address any fellow homosexual (‘Well,Mary...’).
  7. (Ireland, dated)A malemiddle name, given in honour of theVirgin Mary.
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  • In English, the given name was considered too sacred to use before the end of the 12th century. It was very popular from the 17th to the 20th century.
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female given name
Mary, mother of Jesus—see alsoMadonna,‎Mother of God,‎Our Lady,‎Queen of Heaven,‎Saint Mary,‎Theotokos,‎Virgin Mary

Note: Translations for Mary's various titles and appellations should go in the respective entries.

19th sura of the Qur'an

Etymology 2

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FromTurkmenMary.(Thisetymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at theEtymology scriptorium.)

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Mary

  1. Acity inTurkmenistan.
  2. Aregion in southeasternTurkmenistan around thecity.
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  • (historical names for the city):SeeMerv
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city in Turkmenistan
region in Turkmenistan

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Cebuano

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Etymology

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FromEnglishMary, fromOld FrenchMarie, fromLatinMaria, fromAncient GreekΜαρία(María),Μαριάμ(Mariám), fromAramaicמַרְיָם(maryām) orHebrewמִרְיָם(miryām), of uncertain origin.

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Mary

  1. a femalegiven name from English [in turn from Hebrew]

Chinese

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FromEnglishMary.Thisetymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

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  • IPA(key): /mɛː⁵⁵ ɹiː²¹/

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Mary

  1. (Hong Kong Cantonese, colloquial, euphemistic)sex doll;love doll(Classifier:隻／只c)

Danish

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FromEnglishMary. A variant of the traditional DanishMarie.

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Mary

  1. a femalegiven name

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  • [5] Danskernes Navne, based on CPR data: 20 092 females with the given name Mary have been registered in Denmark between about 1890 (=the population alive in 1967) and January 2005, with the frequency peak in the 1900s decade. Accessed on 10 August 2011.

Norwegian

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FromEnglishMary. A variant of the traditional NorwegianMaria orMarie.

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Mary

  1. a femalegiven name

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  • Kristoffer Kruken - Ola Stemshaug: Norsk personnamnleksikon, Det Norske Samlaget, Oslo 1995,→ISBN
  • [6] Statistisk sentralbyrå, Namnestatistikk: 4 879 females with the given name Mary living in Norway on January 1st 2011, with the frequency peak around 1920 . Accessed on 10 August 2011.

Swedish

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Etymology

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FromEnglishMary as a variant of the traditional SwedishMaria. First recorded as a Swedish given name in 1808.

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Mary c (genitiveMarys)

  1. a femalegiven name
    • 2004,Majgull Axelsson,Den jag aldrig var, Prisma,→ISBN, page17:
      Hon visste att hon hade vuxit upp i ett vitt hus, att hennes mor hade döpt henne tillMary och att hennes far hade kallat henne Marie och att hon långt upp i tonåren hade lekt att hon levde två liv, att hon hade ett andra jag som vaknade när hon somnade och somnade nät hon vaknade.
      (pleaseadd an English translation of this quotation)

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  • Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn, Almqvist & Wiksell 1996,→ISBN
  • [7] Statistiska centralbyrån and Sture Allén, Staffan Wåhlin,Förnamnsboken, Norstedts 1995,→ISBN: 10 519 females with the given name Mary living in Sweden on December 31st, 2010, with the frequency peak in the 1920s. Accessed on 10 August 2011.

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Tagalog

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Etymology

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Borrowed fromEnglishMary.Doublet ofMaria.

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Mary (Baybayin spellingᜋᜒᜇᜒ)

  1. a femalegiven name from English

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Turkmen

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Proper noun

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Mary (CyrillicМары)

  1. Mary (acity inTurkmenistan)
  2. Mary (aregion ofTurkmenistan; capital:Mary)
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