Maryam
مَرْيَم
Say it MAR-yam
Mother of ʿĪsā
At a glance
- Gender
- Girl
- Origin
- Not Arabic in origin
- Also spelled
- Mariam, Maryum, Mariyam
Meaning & source
A non-Arabic name. Al-Kirmānī reports that in Hebrew it means “servant” (al-khādim).
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وَمَعْنَى مَرْيَمَ بِالْعِبْرِيَّةِ الْخَادِمُ
Who carried this name
- Maryam bint ʿImrān, mother of ʿĪsā; the only woman named in the Qurʾān Qurʾān 19:16