maria

See also: Maria, maría, Mária, María, Mâria, and Mariä

English

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈmɑɹ.i.ə/, /ˈmɛɚ.i.ə/

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Noun

maria

1. plural of mare (“lunar plain”).

Anagrams

• ARIMA, Amari, Amira, amari, amira, marai, miraa

Ansus

Noun

maria

1. water

References

• The Linguistic Situation in the Islands of Yapen, Kurudu, Nau and Miosnum, New Guinea (1961)

Bola

Pronoun

maria

1. first person dual exclusive

See also

Bola personal pronouns

Number	Person		Free	Subject proclitic	Object Suffix	Oblique
Singular	1st		iau	a	free pronoun	nau
	2nd		ioe	o		vomu
	3rd		ia	i	-a	vona
Dual	1st	Exclusive	maria	miri	free pronoun	ne + free pronoun
		Inclusive	tarua	tu
	2nd		marua	muru
	3rd		rua	ru
Paucal	1st	Exclusive	mateu	mete
		Inclusive	teu	te
	2nd		matou	moto
	3rd		tou	to
Plural	1st	Exclusive	mia	mi
		Inclusive	hita	si
	2nd		mua	mu
	3rd		ria	ri

Busami

Noun

maria

1. water

References

• The Linguistic Situation in the Islands of Yapen, Kurudu, Nau and Miosnum, New Guinea (1961)

Catalan

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Northern, Balearic, Central) [məˈɾi.ə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia, Northwestern) [maˈɾi.a]

Noun

maria f (plural maries)

1. a type of round, flat biscuit
2. thing of low value, trifle
3. (slang, uncountable) weed, grass, cannabis

   Synonyms: herba, marihuana

4. ellipsis of bany maria (“bain-marie”)

Further reading

• “maria”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “maria”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• “maria” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “maria”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)

Finnish

Noun

maria

1. partitive singular of mari

Anagrams

• armia, maari, raami, rimaa

French

Verb

maria

1. third-person singular past historic of marier

Anagrams

• armai
• ramai

Gothic

Romanization

maria

1. romanization of 𐌼𐌰𐍂𐌹𐌰

Indonesian

Etymology

Borrowed from English maria, plural of mare, from Latin mare (“sea”).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /maˈria/ [maˈri.a]
• Rhymes: -a
• Syllabification: ma‧ri‧a

Noun

maria (plural maria-maria)

1. (astronomy) maria, mare

Alternative forms

• mare

Further reading

• “maria”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

Kikuyu

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Bantu *màdìbà.

Noun

maria class 6

1. plural of iria.

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈma.ri.a]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈmaː.ri.a]

Etymology 1

Adjective

maria

1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural of mās

Etymology 2

Noun

maria

1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of mare

References

• "maria", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “maria”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “maria”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray

Romanian

Alternative forms

• мария (maria) — post-1930s Cyrillic spelling

Etymology

Borrowed from French marier.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (usual) /maˈrja/, (careful) /ma.riˈa/
• Rhymes: -a
• Hyphenation: ma‧ri‧a

Verb

a maria (third-person singular present mariează, past participle mariat) 1st conjugation (literary, very rare, reflexive or transitive)

1. to marry

   Synonym: (se) căsători

2. (figurative) to be fitting

   Synonym: (se) potrivi

Conjugation

    conjugation of maria (first conjugation, -ez- infix)

infinitive			a maria
gerund			mariind
past participle			mariat
number		singular			plural
person		1st person	2nd person	3rd person	1st person	2nd person	3rd person
indicative		eu	tu	el/ea	noi	voi	ei/ele
	present	mariez	mariezi	mariază	mariem	mariați	mariază
	imperfect	mariam	mariai	maria	mariam	mariați	mariau
	simple perfect	mariai	mariași	marie	mariarăm	mariarăți	mariară
	pluperfect	mariasem	mariaseși	mariase	mariaserăm	mariaserăți	mariaseră
subjunctive		eu	tu	el/ea	noi	voi	ei/ele
	present	să mariez	să mariezi	să marieze	să mariem	să mariați	să marieze
imperative		—	tu	—	—	voi	—
	affirmative		mariază			mariați
	negative		nu maria			nu mariați

References

• “maria”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2026

Wandamen

Noun

maria

1. drinkable water

References

• The Linguistic Situation in the Islands of Yapen, Kurudu, Nau and Miosnum, New Guinea (1961)

Woi

Noun

maria

1. water

References

• The Linguistic Situation in the Islands of Yapen, Kurudu, Nau and Miosnum, New Guinea (1961)