Mirjam
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Mirjam
- (biblical) Miriam.
- a female given name, also spelled Miriam
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Borrowed from Biblical Hebrew מִרְיָם.
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Mirjam f
- (biblical) Miriam.
- a female given name, also spelled Miriam
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Estonian edit
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Mirjam
- (biblical) Miriam
- a female given name from Hebrew, equivalent to English Miriam
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Mirjam f
- a female given name
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Matronymics
- son of Mirjam: Mirjamarson
- daughter of Mirjam: Mirjamardóttir
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Singular | |
Indefinite | |
Nominative | Mirjam |
Accusative | Mirjam |
Dative | Mirjam |
Genitive | Mirjamar |
Finnish edit
Etymology edit
From Biblical Hebrew מִרְיָם (Miryam).
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Mirjam
- (biblical) Miriam
- 1933, Bible, Exodus 15:20:
- Ja naisprofeetta Mirjam, Aaronin sisar, otti vaskirummun käteensä, ja kaikki naiset seurasivat häntä vaskirumpuja lyöden ja karkeloiden.
- And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand; and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances.
- a female given name
- 1898, Eino Leino, Meiram, Mirjamin laulu:
- Kukka liityvi kukkahan, / rukka liittyvi rukkahan. / Mihinkä liityn ma Mirjam rukka, / missä on Mirjamin kukka?
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Inflection of Mirjam (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | Mirjam | Mirjamit | ||
genitive | Mirjamin | Mirjamien | ||
partitive | Mirjamia | Mirjameja | ||
illative | Mirjamiin | Mirjameihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | Mirjam | Mirjamit | ||
accusative | nom. | Mirjam | Mirjamit | |
gen. | Mirjamin | |||
genitive | Mirjamin | Mirjamien | ||
partitive | Mirjamia | Mirjameja | ||
inessive | Mirjamissa | Mirjameissa | ||
elative | Mirjamista | Mirjameista | ||
illative | Mirjamiin | Mirjameihin | ||
adessive | Mirjamilla | Mirjameilla | ||
ablative | Mirjamilta | Mirjameilta | ||
allative | Mirjamille | Mirjameille | ||
essive | Mirjamina | Mirjameina | ||
translative | Mirjamiksi | Mirjameiksi | ||
abessive | Mirjamitta | Mirjameitta | ||
instructive | — | Mirjamein | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
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Statistics edit
- Mirjam is the 334th most common female given name in Finland, belonging to 1,323 female individuals (and as a middle name to 7,907 more, making it more common as a middle name), according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.
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Mirjam
- (biblical) Miriam.
- a female given name, a less common variant of Miriam
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Mirjam
- (biblical) Miriam.
- a female given name, more often spelled Miriam
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Mirjam c (genitive Mirjams)
- (biblical) Miriam.
- a female given name, also spelled Miriam