Mary is a popular female given name. It is possibly derived from either the Aramaic saying "Mar-i-yah" which means "My God is Yah"; Yah is short for Yahweh; or from the Hebrew name Miryam, thought to mean "bitter" or "rebellious" or from the ancient Egyptian name Mery, meaning "beloved" Variations on the name include Marie and Maria.

Religion

• Mary, mother of Jesus
• Blessed Virgin Mary, the Catholic and Orthodox conception of the mother of Christ
• Mary Magdalene
• Mary, the wife of Cleopas
• Mary, sister of Lazarus
• Mary, mother of John Mark
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• Miriam
• Maryam mother of Jesus in Islam

Geography

• Mary, Turkmenistan, city in Turkmenistan, capital of the Mary Province
• Mary, Saône-et-Loire, commune of the Saône-et-Loire département in France

History

• Various Queen Marys
• Mary I of England
• Mary II of England
• Mary I of Scotland (Mary, Queen of Scots)
• Mary I of Portugal
• Mary II of Portugal
• Mary of Hungary
• Mary, Crown Princess of Denmark
• Typhoid Mary
• Mary Mahler
• Mary Cassatt
• Mary Moss
• Bloody Mary
• Marie Antoinette
• Mary Gathigia Wanjue
• Mary Peh of Dell

Culture

• Anbotoko Mari in Basque mythology, which has been syncretized with Mary, the mother of Jesus under the title Andra Mari ("Lady Mary")
• Maria, two different American television shows starring actor Mary Tyler Moore
• Maria, song written by George M. Cohan in 1905
• Mary, Vladimir Nabokov's first novel, written in 1927
• Mary, 2004 song by Scissor Sisters
• Mary, 1999 album by R&B singer Mary J. Blige
• Marie, a 1981 variety series starring Marie Osmond
• The name "Mary" Features in almost every album by Bruce Springsteen, most notably on Born To Run's Thunder Road and The River's Title Track

Computer Science

• Mary programming language

Names

• A popular middle name for females, in Ireland and Spanish-language countries
• مريم is the name equivalent to Mary in Arabic and Persian, pronounced Mariam and Mar'yam, respectively.
• Mary is Miriam in the Hebrew and Arabic languages.
• Mari, meaning "eternal truth", is a similar name in Japanese.
• Mhairi, is the Gaelic version of the name, pronounced . The name is derived from the form of the name as it appears in the vocative case: Màiri (Mary) (nom.) → Mhàiri (voc.). There are currently well over one thousand people named Mhairi, most of them in Scotland.

Language

• "mari-", in Spanish compounds, can mean a generic woman marisabidilla ("little wise Mary") meaning "pedant woman", a butterfly ("Mary, set down"), for "butterfly", the internationalized marijuana, or a compound in gay slang forming words relating to gay men (maricélibe "celibate gay man", marirrevolución "gay revolution")
• Mary is also used as an affectionate slang term for a gay man in the United States. It may be related to the Spanish offensive terms marica and maricón derived from María. Gay men who go to the gym, exercise or otherwise take good care of their physiques are often referred to as Muscle Marys.

Philosophy of Consciousness

• Mary is a construct introduced by Jackson, F. (1982), "Epiphenomenal Qualia", Philosophical Quarterly, 32, to argue issues of physicalism. Concisely stated by Vierkant, T. (2002), "Zombie-Mary and the Blue Banana", PSYCHE, 8(19):
• "Mary is confined to a black-and-white room, is educated through black-and-white books and through lectures relayed on black-and white television. In this way she learns everything there is to know about the physical nature of the world. She knows all the physical facts about us and our environment, in a wide sense of 'physical' which includes everything in completed physics, chemistry, and neurophysiology, and all there is to know about the causal and relational facts consequent upon all this, including of course functional roles. If physicalism is true, she knows all there is to know. For to suppose otherwise is to suppose that there is more to know than every physical fact, and that is what physicalism denies."
• There is an extensive literature on what happens when Mary leaves her black-and-white environment, and first experiences color.

References

• Social Security Administration, Popular Baby Names, 1880-2004

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