A square worth showing up for Where we meet with culture, questions, and craft.
Knock with your name — from any language. Arabic, Hebrew, Greek, Russian, Hindi, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Irish, Haitian Creole, Jamaican Patois, and more. If we know it, you get a plain-English meaning, where it comes from, and the name in its own script when there is a real one. Tap Hear it to hear it said. We only write what is well known. If we don’t have it, we say so.
Guests can ask about the names set out front. The rest of the list is inside the club.
Meaning unsettled
Maryam
Also Mary, Mariam, Miriam
Recorded voice
In its own script
Arabic
مريم
Hebrew
מִרְיָם
Greek
Μαρία
Russian
Мария
Haitian Creole · Kreyòl
Mari
Jamaican Patois · Patwa
Mieri
Cassidy spelling, as in Di Jamaikan Nyuu Testiment
Meaning
Mary’s name. The older root is not settled.
Origin
Arabic Maryam is the form of Mary. Hebrew Miryam has been explained as beloved, as bitter, and as an Egyptian phrase. None of those is settled, so we will not pick one.
Mary, under her Arabic name. We don’t pretend the older root is solved.
