Maryとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• Marie (Early New English)

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈmeə.ɹi/
  • (Lancashire, fair–fur merger) IPA: /ˈmɜːɹɪ/
• (General American) enPR: mârʹē
  • (without the Mary–marry–merry merger) IPA: /ˈmeɹ.i/
  • (Mary–marry–merry merger) IPA: /ˈmɛɹ.i/
• (General Australian) IPA: /ˈmeː.ɹi/
• (New Zealand) enPR: mâʹrē
  • (without the cheer–chair merger) IPA: /ˈmeə.ɹi/
  • (cheer–chair merger) IPA: /ˈmiə.ɹi/
• (Scotland) IPA: /ˈmeɹɪ/, /ˈmeɹe/
• 異形同音異義語: marry, Merry, merry (only in accents with the Mary-marry-merry merger)
• 韻: -ɛəɹi

固有名詞

Mary (plural Marys or Maries)

1. A female given name from Aramaic or Hebrew.
   • 1821, Lord Byron, Don Juan, Canto the Fifth: IV:

     I have a passion for the name of Mary,
     For once it was a magic sound to me:
     And still it half calls up the realm of fairy
     Where I beheld what never was to be.

   • 1830, Mary Russell Mitford, Our Village: Cottage Names:

     Mary, which is as common as a white violet, and like that has something indestructibly sweet and simple, and fit for all wear, high or low, suits the cottage or the palace, the garden or the field, the pretty and the ugly, the old and the young;

   • 1905 George M.Cohan, Forty-Five Minutes from Broadway, Mary is a Grand Old Name ( a song)

     For it was Mary; Mary / Plain as any name can be / But with propriety, society / Will say "Marie". / But it was Mary; Mary / Long before the fashions came / And there's something there that sounds so square / It's a grand old name.

   • 1996, Maeve Binchy, This Year It Will Be Different: A Christmas Treasury, Hachette UK, published 2008, →ISBN:

     They had called their children Ann, Mary, and John as a reaction against their own fancy tricksy names. Both mothers thought these names sadly unimaginative and each blamed the child of the other for the lack of vision and style.

   • 2009 April 25, “Meet Number 16 Bus Shelter”, in Austin Daily Herald‎, archived from the original on 20 July 2025:

     For the last decade at least, the trend seems to be that more untraditional names are being chosen over the Bobs, the Toms, the Sues and the Marys.

   • 2020 April 27, Meg Medina, “A Deaf Girl Finds Her Voice on Martha's Vineyard in the 19th Century”, in The New York Times Book Review‎, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 5 December 2022:

     Life on Martha’s Vineyard has been mostly ideal for 11-year-old Mary Elizabeth Lambert, the protagonist of Ann Clare LeZotte’s historical novel SHOW ME A SIGN (Scholastic, 288 pp., $18.99; ages 8 to 12).

   • 2024 December 11, “The courtroom attack that led to 26 years in prison”, in BBC‎:

     Deobra Redden, 31, was caught on camera in January jumping over a desk and lunging at Judge Mary Kay Holthus, who was sentencing him in another case.

2. (religion) The mother of Jesus, believed in Christianity and Islam to have been a virgin at his birth, and believed by some Christians to have been born herself without sin, to have ascended to Heaven without death, and to act as a sympathetic intermediary for believers.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Matthew 1:18, column 2:

     Now the birth of Jeſus Chriſt was on this wiſe: When as his mother Mary was eſpouſed to Joſeph (before they came together) ſhee was found with childe of the holy Ghoſt.

3. (biblical) Any of several other women in the New Testament, notably:
   1. Mary Magdalene, a disciple of Jesus.
   2. Mary of Bethany, the sister of Lazarus and Martha.
      • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Luke 10:41–42, column 1:

        And Jeſus anſwered, and ſaide vnto her, Martha, Martha, thou art carefull, and troubled about many things: But one thing is needefull, and Mary hath choſen that good part, which ſhall not bee taken away from her.

4. (Islam) The 19th sura (chapter) of the Qur'an, recounting the events leading up to the birth of Jesus.

   Synonym: Maryam

5. (chiefly US, gay slang) A term of address for a male homosexual. [1925]

   Synonyms: nancy, nan; see also Thesaurus:male homosexual

   • 1941, G. Legman, Sex Variants, volume II, page 1171:

     Note also that male homosexuals will call most anyone Bessie or Mary, e.g. ‘Oh, Bessie, you're a camp!’

   • 1985, W. Dynes, Homolexis, page 150:

     In America in the 1950s,... Mary was often used in the vocative to address any fellow homosexual (‘Well, Mary...’).

6. (Ireland, dated) A male middle name, given in honour of the Virgin Mary.

使用する際の注意点

• In English, the given name was considered too sacred to use before the end of the 12th century. It was very popular from the 17th to the 20th century.

同意語

• (mother of Jesus): advocatrix, Blessed Virgin, Blessed Virgin Mary, Christotokos, Coredemptrix, Deipara, Holy Mary, Holy Mother, Holy Mother of God, Madonna, Maria, Mater Dei, Miriam, Morning Star, Mother of God, Mother of Mercy, Mother of Sorrows, New Eve, Our Lady, Our Lady of Dolors, Our Lady of Sorrows, Our Lady of the Seven Dolors, Our Lady of the Seven Sorrows, Panagia, Queen of Heaven, Santa Maria, Saint Mary, Sorrowful Mother, Star of the Sea, Theotokos, the Virgin, Virgin Mary

等位語

• Amina

派生語

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語源 2

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

発音

• IPA: /ˈmɑ(ː).ɹɪ/

固有名詞

Mary

1. A city, the capital of the region of Mary, in southeastern Turkmenistan.
2. A region in southeastern Turkmenistan.

同意語

• (historical names for the city): See Merv

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アナグラム

• ARMY, Army, Mayr, Myra, Yarm, army, yarm