Máire
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Máire (Irish: [ˈmˠaːɾʲə]) is a feminine given name. It is the Irish language form of Maria,[1] which was in turn a Latin[2] form of the Greek names Μαριαμ (Mariam), and Μαρια (Maria), found in the New Testament.[citation needed] Both New Testament names were forms of the Hebrew name מִרְיָם (Miryam).[1]
Its meaning has been variously translated with around 70 possibilities,[2] including "sea of ", "star of the sea", "drop of the sea", "rebelliousness", "exalted one", "beloved", and "wished for child".[1] Patrick Woulfe (1923) thought that the meaning related to bitterness, related to grief, sorrow, affliction, possibly associated with childbirth, was most likely.[2]
Máire was and still is a popular name in Ireland, and is sometimes spelt in its anglicised forms Maire, (without diacritics) Maura and Moira.[1] The diminutive form Máirín has inspired the Anglicised Maureen.
Completely unrelated to this, Maire (pron. MIE-reh) is a feminine given name in Finland, said to derive from the Finnish word mairea, meaning "gushing" or "sugary".[1]