Virgin Mary

English

Etymology 1

From virgin +‎ Mary, from the belief that Mary was still a virgin when she bore Christ.

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

(the) Virgin Mary (plural Virgin Marys or Virgins Mary)

1. (Christianity) Synonym of Mary, mother of Jesus.

   Synonyms: Blessed Virgin, Blessed Virgin Mary, Virgin

   • 1819 August, “Religious Retrospect”, in The Antijacobin Review; and Protestant Advocate: or, Monthly Political, and Literary Censor, volume LVI, number 56, London: […] G. Sidney, […]; […] Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, […], page 570:

     They no more supposed that there were as many Jupiters, as images of Jupiter, than the Papists imagine there to be as many Virgins Mary as they have statues and pictures of her.

   • 1868, Thomas Inman, Ancient Faiths Embodied in Ancient Names: or an Attempt to Trace the Religious Belief, Sacred Rites, and Holy Emblems of Certain Nations. […], volume I, London, Liverpool: […] the Author, page 348:

     Now, since there are many ‘sects’ amongst Protestants, and many ‘orders,’ often rival ones, amongst the Roman Catholics, and since there are almost as many Virgins Mary as there are towns who own her sway, so we may expect to find in Palestine many rival ‘orders,’ ‘systems,’ or ‘temples.’

   • 1977, Helen Cooper, Pastoral: Mediaeval Into Renaissance, D. S. Brewer, →ISBN, page 85:

     One of his tableaux for her entry was designed to illustrate the peace brought by the two Virgins Mary: there was the Annunciation to the Virgin at the top of the pageant, a king and queen seated in the centre with Justice and Truth on either side of them, and at the bottom ‘ung iardin nommé le iardin de france’ containing shepherds and shepherdesses singing.

   • 1999, Touring Club of Italy, Florence: A Complete Guide to the Renaissance City, the Surrounding Countryside, and the Chianti Region, Touring Editore, published April 2000, →ISBN, page 139:

     […] three Virgins Mary, by Bicci di Lorenzo, Lorenzo Monaco, and Filippo Lippi (hall IV); […]

   • 2016, Larissa Brewer-García, “Imagined Transformations: Color, Beauty, and Black Christian Conversion in Seventeenth-Century Spanish America”, in Pamela A. Patton, editor, Envisioning Others: Race, Color, and the Visual in Iberia and Latin America, Leiden, Boston, Mass.: Brill, →ISBN, page 122:

     Meanwhile, images of black women in this period in Spain and Spanish America appeared in painted portraits, prints, and statues of dark Virgin Marys.

Translations

Mary, mother of Jesus — see also Mary,‎ Virgin,‎ Mother of God,‎ Our Lady,‎ Saint Mary,‎ Theotokos

• Afrikaans: Maagd Maria
• Albanian: Zonja e Bekuar f
• Arabic: مَرْيَم اَلْعَذْرَاء f (maryam al-ʕaḏrāʔ)
• Aramaic:

  Classical Syriac: ܡܪܝܡ ܒܬܘܠܬܐ f

• Belarusian: Дзе́ва Мары́я f (Dzjéva Marýja)
• Bengali: বিবি মরিয়ম (bibi moriẏom)
• Breton: ar Werc'hez Vari (br) f
• Bulgarian: Дева Мария f (Deva Marija)
• Catalan: Verge Maria f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 聖母瑪利亞 / 圣母玛利亚 (zh) (Shèngmǔ Mǎlìyà)

• Cornish: Maria Wynn f
• Czech: Panna Maria f, Panna Marie f
• Danish: Jomfru Maria c
• Dutch: Maagd Maria f
• Faroese: Jómfrú Maria, Maria Moy
• Finnish: Neitsyt Maria, Neitsyt (fi)
• French: Vierge Marie (fr) f
• Galician: Virxe María (gl) f
• Georgian: ქალწული მარიამი (kalc̣uli mariami)
• German: Jungfrau Maria f
• Greek: Παναγία (el) f (Panagía)
• Hindi: मुक़द्दस कुंवारी मरयम (muqaddas kumvārī maryam)
• Hungarian: Szűz Mária (literally “Virgin Mary”), Szűzanya (hu) (literally “Virgin Mother”), Boldogságos Szűz (literally “Blessed Virgin”), Boldogságos Szűz Mária (literally “Blessed Virgin Mary”), Szent Szűz (literally “Saint Virgin”)
• Icelandic: María mey
• Indonesian: Bunda Maria
• Irish: an Mhaighdean Mhuire f, Muire Ógh f, Muire Mhaighdean f, an Mhaighdean Bheannaithe (literally “the Blessed Virgin”)
• Italian: Vergine Maria f
• Japanese: 聖母マリア (Seibo Maria)
• Korean: 성모 마리아 (Seongmo Maria)
• Latin: Virgō Marīa f (literally “Virgin Mary”), Beāta Virgō f (literally “Blessed Virgin”), Beāta Virgō Marīa f (literally “Blessed Virgin Mary”)
• Lithuanian: Mergelė Marija f
• Macedonian: Дева Марија f (Deva Marija)
• Maltese: Verġni Marija f
• Manx: y Voidyn Moirrey f, yn Voidyn Vannee (literally “the Blessed Virgin”)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: ^{(please verify)} jomfru Maria m or f

  Nynorsk: jomfru Maria f, Maria møy

• Persian: مریم عذرا (maryam-e 'azrâ)
• Polish: Dziewica Maryja (pl) f, Maryja Panna (pl) f, Najświętsza Maryja Panna (pl) f
• Portuguese: Virgem Maria f
• Romanian: Fecioara Maria f
• Russian: Де́ва Мари́я f (Déva Maríja)
• Scottish Gaelic: Moire Òigh f, a' Mhaighdeann Moire f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: please add this translation if you can

  Roman: Djevica Marija f

• Spanish: Virgen María (es) f
• Swedish: Jungfru Maria (sv)
• Turkish: Bakire Meryem
• Ukrainian: Ді́ва Марі́я f (Díva Maríja)
• Urdu: کنواری مریم f (kũnvārī maryam)
• Welsh: y Forwyn Fair f

See also

• Black Virgin

Etymology 2

Blend of virgin +‎ Bloody Mary, from non-alcoholic drinks being labelled "virgin".

Alternative forms

• virgin mary

Noun

Virgin Mary (plural Virgin Marys)

1. A drink made with tomato juice and spices, resembling a Bloody Mary, but without alcohol.

Related terms

• bloody mary / Bloody Mary
• verde mary / Verde Mary