Martha (given name)
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" from the Greek version of the name, that the Russians assimilate in F
- Márta (Hungarian)
- Marta (Bulgarian, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Italian, Macedonian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovene, Spanish, Swedish)
- Марта (Marta) (Ukrainian)
- Marthe (French, German)
- Martta (Finnish)
- Mártuska (Hungarian)
- Moireach (Scottish Gaelic)
- Morta (Lithuanian)
A traditional English language nickname was Patty. [1]