Martha (given name)
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Martha is a feminine given name (Latin from Ancient Greek Μάρθα, from Aramaic מרתא (martā) "the mistress" or "the lady", from מרה "mistress", feminine of מרי "master").
Variants in different languages:
- Maata (Maori)
- Марфа (Marfa) (Russian), formerly spelled "Марѳа"
- Márta (Hungarian)
- Marta (Bulgarian, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Italian, Macedonian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovene, Spanish, Swedish)
- Marthe (French, German)
- Martita (Spanish)
- Martta (Finnish)
- Mártuska (Hungarian)
- Moireach (Scottish Gaelic)
- Morta (Lithuanian)
A traditional English language nickname was Patty. [1]
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