Martha
Martha from the Isabella Breviary, 1497
GenderFemale
Origin
Word/nameGreek & Aramaic
Meaning"mistress" or traitor
Other names
Variant form(s)Marfa, Marta, Marthe
Related namesMarwa, Merve, Marva, Märta

Martha is a feminine given name (Latin from Ancient Greek Μάρθα (Mártha), from Aramaic מרתא (Mārtā) "the mistress" or "the lady", from מרה "mistress", feminine of מרי "master"). Patti, Patsy, and Patty were in use in Colonial America as English rhyming diminutives of the diminutive Mattie.[1]

Variants in different languages:

  • Maata (Maori)
  • Марфа (Marfa) (Russian and Belarusian), formerly spelled "Марѳа" from the Greek version of the name, that the Russians assimilate in F
  • Márta (Hungarian)
  • Marta (Bulgarian, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Italian, Latvian, Macedonian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovene, Spanish, Swedish)
  • Марта (Marta) (Ukrainian)
  • Marthe (French, German, Dutch)
  • Martta (Finnish)
  • Mártuska (Hungarian)
  • Moireach (Scottish Gaelic)
  • Morta (Lithuanian)
  • Mortho (Marylandian)

People with the name

Fictional characters

Notes

  1. Hanks, Patrick; Hardcastle, Kate; Hodges, Flavia (2006). Oxford Dictionary of First Names. Oxford University Press. p. 216. ISBN 0-19-861060-2.
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