mary

See also: Mary, Marý, and máry

English

Etymology

From Mary (“female name”). Compare nan and nancy.

Pronunciation

• (General American)
  • (Mary–marry–merry merger) IPA^(key): /ˈmɛɹ.i/
  • (without the Mary–marry–merry merger) IPA^(key): /ˈmɛɚ.i/

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• Homophones: marry, merry (Mary–marry–merry merger)

Noun

mary (plural marys)

1. Alternative letter-case form of Mary (“male homosexual”)

Synonyms

• see Thesaurus:male homosexual

Anagrams

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

Middle English

Noun

mary

1. Alternative form of marow

Middle French

Alternative forms

• mari

Noun

mary m (plural marys)

1. husband

Descendants

• French: mari

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈma.rɨ/
• (Middle Polish) IPA^(key): /ˈmɒ.rɨ/

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• Rhymes: -arɨ
• Syllabification: ma‧ry

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Polish mary. Cognate with Czech máry and German Bahre.

Noun

mary nvir pl

1. (literary) bier (litter to transport the corpse of a dead person)

   Synonym: (obsolete) tragi

2. (literary) bier, catafalque (platform or stand where a body or coffin is placed)

   Synonym: katafalk

Declension

Declension of mary

	plural
nominative	mary
genitive	mar
dative	marom
accusative	mary
instrumental	marami
locative	marach
vocative	mary

Derived terms

verbs

• leżeć na marach impf
• ujrzeć kogoś na marach pf

 

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

mary f

1. inflection of mara:
   1. genitive singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative plural

Further reading

• mary in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• mary in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “mary”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
• Brückner, Aleksander (1927) “mary”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish), Warsaw: Wiedza Powszechna