Μαρία

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

Μαριᾱ́μ (Mariā́m)

Etymology

Borrowed from Aramaic מרים‎ (maryam).

Pronunciation

(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /maˈri.a/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /maˈri.a/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /maˈri.a/

Proper noun

Μᾰρῐ́ᾱ • (Maríā) f (genitive Μᾰρῐ́ᾱς); first declension

Mary, Maria

Inflection

First declension of ἡ Μᾰρῐ́ᾱ; τῆς Μᾰρῐ́ᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ἡ Μᾰρῐ́ᾱ hē Maríā
Genitive	τῆς Μᾰρῐ́ᾱς tês Maríās
Dative	τῇ Μᾰρῐ́ᾳ têi Maríāi
Accusative	τὴν Μᾰρῐ́ᾱν tḕn Maríān
Vocative	Μᾰρῐ́ᾱ Maríā
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

→ Gothic: 𐌼𐌰𐍂𐌹𐌰 (Maria)
Greek: Μαρία (María)
→ Hawaiian: Maria
- ⇒ Hawaiian: Malia
  - → English: Malia
→ Latin: Maria (see there for further descendants)
→ Old Church Slavonic: Маріа (Maria)
- → Belarusian: Марыя (Maryja)
- Bulgarian: Мария (Marija)
- → Macedonian: Марија (Marija)
- → Polish: Maria, Maryja
- → Russian: Мария (Marija), Марья (Marʹja)
- → Serbo-Croatian:
  - Cyrillic: Марија
  - Latin: Marija
- → Slovak: Mária
- → Slovene: Marija
- → Ukrainian: Марія (Marija)

References

Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
G3137 in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979

Greek

Proper noun

Μαρία • (María) f

A female given name, the Greek equivalent of Mary, Maria

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