Maryam (name)
Pronunciation | Arabic: [ˈmarjam] Hebrew: [mirˈjam] Persian: [mæɾˈjæm] Amharic: [marˈjam] Malayalam: [marijam] Turkish: [meh ˈ ree ˈ uhm] |
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Gender | feminine |
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Origin | |
Word/name | Hebrew (Possibly from Egyptian) |
Region of origin | Ancient Near East |
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Maryam or Mariam is the
The spelling in theVia its use in the
. InEtymology
The name may have originated from the Egyptian language; in a suggestion going back to 1897, it is possibly derivative of the root mr "love; beloved" [4] (compare mry.t-ymn "Merit-Amun", i.e. "beloved of Amun"). Maas (1912) references (but rejects) a 1906 suggestion interpreting the name as "beloved of Yahweh".[5] Maas (1912) further proposes possible derivation from Hebrew, either from marah "to be rebellious", or (more likely) from mara "well nourished".[6]
The name has a long tradition of scholarly etymologisation; some seventy suggestions are treated by Otto Bardenhewer in monographic form in his Der Name Maria (1895). It was early etymologized as containing the Hebrew root mr "bitter" (cf.
Modern given name
Modern given names derived from Aramaic Maryam are frequent in Christian culture, as well as, due to the Quranic tradition of Mary, extremely frequently given in Islamic cultures. There are a large number of variants and derivations.
The New Testament gives the name as both Mariam (Μαριάμ) and Maria (Μαρία). The
Maryam is the now-usual English-language rendition of the Arabic name. The spelling Mariyam (in German-language contexts also Marijam) is sometimes used as a close transcription from Hebrew, Aramaic or Arabic.
The spelling Mariam is current in transliteration from Georgian and Armenian, and in German-language transliteration from Aramaic or Arabic. Mariam was also a current spelling in early modern English, as in the Jacobean era play The Tragedy of Mariam.
Derived names
Maryam as the name of
Ustad Ali Maryam, architect in 19th century Persia, added Maryam to his name after building a house for an important woman with that name.
People named Maryam
Notable people with the name Maryam
- Maryam Bidabadi
- Maryam Abacha (born 1945), widow of Sani Abacha, de facto President of Nigeria from 1993 to 1998
- Maryam Babangida (1948–2009), wife of Nigeria's head of state from 1985 to 1993
- Maryam d'Abo (born 1960), English film and television actress
- Maryam Fatima, Pakistani actress
- Maryam Goumbassian (1831–1909), an Ottoman Armenian actress
- Maryam Khan (born 1989), American politician
- Maryam Matar (born 1975), Emirati geneticist and medical researcher
- Maryam Mirzakhani (1977–2017), Iranian mathematician
- Maryam Monsef (born 1984), Afghan Canadian politician
- Maryam Nemazee, Iranian British broadcast journalist
- Maryam Nawaz Sharif (born 1973), Pakistani politician
- Maryam Omar (born 1993), Kuwaiti-born Palestinian cricketer
- Maryam Rajavi (born 1953), leader of the People's Mujahedin of Iran
- Maryam Salour (born 1954), Iranian visual artist
- Maryam Shanechi, Iranian-American neuro engineers
- Maryam Yakubova (1931–2018), Uzbek educator
- Maryam Zakaria, Swedish-Iranian actress
- Maryam Tanveer Ali, popularly known as Maya Ali, Pakistani television actress
- Mariam Mamadashvili
Notable people with spelling variations of the name Maryam
- Mariam A. Aleem (1930–2010), Egyptian artist and academic
- Mariam Ansari, Pakistani film actress
- Marriyum Aurangzeb, Pakistani politician
- Mariam Brahim (born 1956), Chadian physician
- Mariam Mirza, Pakistani television actress and beautician
- Marium Mukhtiar, a Pakistan Air Force pilot who died in fighter jet crash
- Mariyam Nafees, Pakistani television actress
See also
- Maryam (disambiguation)
- Miriam (given name)
- Maria (given name)
- Mary in Islam
- All pages with titles beginning with Maryam
- All pages with titles beginning with Mariam
- All pages with titles beginning with Mariyam
References
- ISBN 0198610602.
- ISBN 978-0-8020-9157-4.
- ^ The Holy Qur'an: Maryam (Mary), Sura 19 (Translation by A. Yusuf Ali)
- ^ The Catholic Encyclopedia(1912), citing Franz von Hummelauer (in Exod. et Levit., Paris, 1897, p. 161)
- ^ citing Zorrell, Zeitschrift für katholische Theologie, 1906, pp. 356 sqq.
- ^ "the name miryam may be derived either from marah, to be rebellious, or from mara, to be well nourished. Etymology does not decide which of these derivations is to be preferred; but it is hardly probable that the name of a young girl should be connected with the idea of rebellion, while Orientals consider the idea of being well nourished as synonymous with beauty and bodily perfection, so that they would be apt to give their daughters a name derived from mara"
A. Maas, "The Name of Mary", The Catholic Encyclopedia(1912).
- ^ Rashi. "Commentary on Shir Hashirim (Song of Songs)". p. 2:13. "From the time that Miriam was born, the Egyptians intensified the bondage upon Israel; therefore, she was called Miriam, because they made it bitter (מַר) for them."