Mari (given name)


Mari is a feminine given name in the Breton, Japanese, Syriac-Aramaic language, Armenian,
Estonian, Georgian, Hungarian, Finnish, Welsh, Swedish and Norwegian languages. It is also a devotional given name in Tamil. It can be seen as a cognate of Mary in Danish, Finnish, Norwegian or Swedish. In Estonian, it is a shortened variety of proper names like Marianne; in Estonian it is often perceived as a derivation of "mari". In the countries of Georgia and Armenia, Mari is a shortened version of the name Mariam. In Armenia, Mari was the 2nd-most-common female given name of 2013. In Syriac-Aramaic this is the name of a male saint.
In Japanese it appears as Mari, or can be written using different kanji characters so that it means, respectively:
  • 真理, "truth"
  • 万里, "long distance"
  • 茉莉, "jasmine"
  • 麻里, "hemp, village"
  • 麻莉, "hemp, white jasmine"
  • 愛莉, "love, white jasmine"
The name can also be written in hiragana or katakana.

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