Maryam (name)

Maryam

Ottoman miniature of Maryam (Mary)
Pronunciation	Arabic: [ˈmarjam] Hebrew: [mirˈjam] Persian: [mæɾˈjæm] Amharic: [marˈjam] Malayalam: [marijam] Turkish: [meh ˈ ree ˈ uhm]
Gender	feminine
Language(s)	Arabic Syro-Aramaic Amharic Tigrinya Armenian Georgian Persian Turkish
Origin
Word/name	Hebrew (Possibly from Egyptian)
Region of origin	Ancient Near East
Other names
Related names	Maria Mariah Marie Marija Mariya Mary Merieme Meryem Miriam Miryam Myriam Mia Maura Marian

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Maryam or Mariam is the Aramaic form of the biblical name Miriam (the name of the prophetess Miriam, the sister of Moses). It is notably the name of Mary the mother of Jesus.^[1][2][3] The spelling in the Semitic abjads is mrym (Hebrew מרים, Aramaic ܡܪܝܡ, Arabic مريم), which may be vowelized in a number of ways (Meriem, Miryam, Miriyam, Mirijam, Marium, Maryam, Mariyam, Marijam, Meryem, Merjeme, etc.)

Via its use in the New Testament the name has been adopted worldwide, especially in Roman Catholicism, but also in Eastern Christianity, in Protestantism, and in Islam. In Latin Christianity, the Greek form Mariam was adopted as latinate Maria (whence French Marie and English Mary). Forms retaining the final -m are found throughout the Middle East, in Arabic, Armenian, Georgian, Urdu, and Persian, as well as the Horn of Africa, including Amharic, Tigrinya, and Somali, Turkish and in Malayalam as Mariyam in south India.