Mari vs Maria - What's the difference?
mari | maria |
A Volga-Finnic people in the Volga region.
A Finno-Ugric language spoken by the Mari people.
Meadow Mari, Eastern Mari
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* 1629 , , Meditations upon Creed , The Works of Thomas Adams, James Nichol (1862), volume 3, page 211:
* 1776 , Adam Fitz-Adam: The World of Adam Fitz-Adam. Edinburgh, Apollo Press 1776: Numb. 187. Thursday, July 29, 1756:
* 1957 , Arthur Laurents/Stephen Sondheim/Leonard Bernstein: ''West Side Story: Maria ( a song):
A Dravidian language spoken in Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh provinces in India.
As a noun mari
is moor (member of an ancient berber people, islamic people who ruled spain, etc).As a proper noun maria is
.mari
English
Etymology 1
External links
*Etymology 2
From (etyl) .Proper noun
(wikipedia Mari) (en proper noun)Usage notes
There are two written varieties of Mari, one called Meadow Mari or Eastern Mari, and the other Hill Mari or Western Mari. The speakers of the former outnumber those of the latter by 10 to 1 or more, depending on which source one believes. The English Wiktionary uses the code chm'' (which ISO 639-3 assigned to the Mari macrolanguage) for Eastern Mari and the code ''mrj for Western Mari.Synonyms
* (language) Cheremis (dated) * (people) Cheremis (dated)Meronyms
* (Uralic language spoken by the Mari) *: *:External links
* * *Anagrams
* (l), (l), (l), (l), (l), (l), (l), (l), (l) ----maria
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) Maria, from (etyl) . A Latinate variant of the vernacular English (l).Proper noun
(en proper noun)- Yet herein they come short of the monks and friars in their conceits of the word Maria ; they have so tossed it and turned it, so anagrammatized and transposed it, that never were five poor letters so worried since time did put them into the alphabet.
- By their dresses, their names, and the airs of quality they give themselves, I am rendered ridiculous among all my acquaintance. My wife, who is a very plain good woman, and whose name is Amey, has been new-christened, and is called Amelia; and my little daughter, a child of a year old, is no longer Polly, but Maria .
- I've just kissed a girl named Maria', / And suddenly I found how wonderful a sound can be! / ' Maria ! Say it loud and there's music playing - / Say it soft and it's almost like praying