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Maria vs David - What's the difference?

maria | david |

As proper nouns the difference between maria and david

is that maria is while david is .

maria

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) Maria, from (etyl) . A Latinate variant of the vernacular English (l).

Proper noun

(en proper noun)
  • .
  • * 1629 , , Meditations upon Creed , The Works of Thomas Adams, James Nichol (1862), volume 3, page 211:
  • 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.
  • * 1776 , Adam Fitz-Adam: The World of Adam Fitz-Adam. Edinburgh, Apollo Press 1776: Numb. 187. Thursday, July 29, 1756:
  • 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 .
  • * 1957 , Arthur Laurents/Stephen Sondheim/Leonard Bernstein: ''West Side Story: Maria ( a song):
  • 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

    Etymology 2

    Proper noun

    (Maria language) (en proper noun)
  • A Dravidian language spoken in Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh provinces in India.
  • Derived terms
    * Abujmaria

    Etymology 3

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • A Papuan language spoken in Papua New Guinea.
  • david

    English

    (wikipedia David)

    Proper noun

  • .
  • * 1994 , The Merry Recluse: A Life in Essays , Counterpoint Press 2004, ISBN 1582433135, page 169:
  • David' Copperfield. Dwight '''David''' Eisenhower. Michelangelo's '''David'''. None of these '''Davids''' would seem the same if their names were Dave. ' David , with its final "d", sounds finished and complete, whereas Dave just kind of hangs there in the air, indefinitely.
  • * 2000 , Merrick , Ballantine Books (2001), ISBN 0-345-44395-0, page 157:
  • Well, don't think I'll settle for so little, Mr. Talbot. Or should I call you David'? I think you look like a ' David , you know, righteous and clean living and all of that.
  • The second king of Judah and Israel, the successor of Saul in the Old Testament.
  • * :
  • David the son of Jesse said, and the man who was raised up on high, the anointed of the God of Jacob, and the sweet psalmist of Israel, said, The Spirit of the LORD spake by me, and his word was in my tongue.
  • common in Wales.
  • Derived terms

    * Son of David * Star of David * Davidian * davidi