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English

Ma (abbreviation)
(female given name): Mae

Etymology tree

Latin Maia

Latin Maiusder.

Old French maibor.

Middle English May

English May

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From Middle English Category:English terms inherited from Middle English#MAY Category:English terms derived from Middle English#MAY May, Mai, from Old French Category:English terms derived from Old French#MAY mai, from Latin Category:English terms derived from Latin#MAY Maius (“Maia's month”), from Maia, a Roman earth goddess.

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The fifth month of the Gregorian calendar, following April and preceding June.
Alternative form: 5

Synonym: (Quakerism) Fifth Month

Holonyms: calendar year; year

Comeronyms: January, February, March, April, June, July, August, September, October, November, December
- Before 1789, "Bonny Barbara Allen," traditional ballad, collected in Francis James Child and George Lyman Kittridge (1886), The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, vol. II, part II, p. 277:
  All in the merry month of May, / When green leaves they was springing, / This young man on his death-bed lay, / For the love of Barbara Allen.
- 2014 July 1, Frank Jacobs, “Welcome to Stanistan”, in Foreign Policy‎, archived from the original on 3 August 2023:
  At a signing ceremony in the Kazakh capital, Astana, on May 29, the presidents of Russia, Belarus, and Kazakhstan ratified the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) into existence. An EEU modeled on the European Union was first mooted back in 1994 by Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev, but took off only after his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, seized upon its potential as a Moscow-centered, Asia-oriented alternative to the EU.
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- 2025 August 6, Rachel Dobkin, “Significant parts of the Constitution were quietly removed from the Congress website”, in The Independent‎:
  In May, White House deputy chief of staff for policy Stephen Miller told reporters the Trump administration is “looking at” suspending the writ of habeas corpus for migrants under claims of an “invasion.”
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A female given nameCategory:English given names#MAYCategory:English female given names#MAY, usually pet name for Mary and Margaret, reinforced by the month and plant meaning.
- 1856, E. D. E. N. Southworth, The Widow's Son, T. B. Peterson, published 1867, page 210:
  […] I will not send Owen's Lily May to the almshouse." "Lily―what?" demanded Mrs. Morley rather sharply, for she was half provoked with what she mentally called Amy's whim of keeping the outcast child when she might send it to the asylum. "Lily May," said Amy, smiling. "Her name is Mary, and we called her first Little Mary, and then Little May. But Owen calls her Lily May."
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- 1982, Ruth Rendell, The Fever Tree and Other Stories, Hutchinson, →ISBN, page 119:
  Their parents named them June and May because their birthdays occurred in those months. […] May was like the time of year in which she had been born, changeable, chilly and warm by turns, sullen yet able to know and show loveliness that couldn't last.
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- 2010, Margaret Forster, Isa & May, Chatto & Windus, →ISBN, page 5:
  It's an awkward name: Isamay, pronounced Is-a-may. Isa is my paternal grandmother's name (shortened from Isabel) and May my maternal grandmother's (it comes, somehow, from Margaret). The amalgamation is, as you see, strictly alphabetical. Life, I feel, would have been much easier if they had chosen Maybel.
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- 2016 June 13, Hilary Bird, “Baby named Sahaiʔa prompts changes to Vital Statistics Act”, in CBC News‎, archived from the original on 13 June 2016:
  Sahaiʔa May Talbot was born on Feb. 15, 2014. However, on her birth certificate, her name is spelled Sahai'a because the Northwest Territories government only allows the Roman alphabet to be used on official documents.
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1. Theresa May, former British prime minister.
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May (or Mae) is often used in conjoined names (e.g., Lillie Mae, Katie Mae, Fannie Mae).

Terms derived from May

Bislama: mei
Pitcairn-Norfolk: Mieh
Tok Pisin: Mei
→ Bengali: মে (me)
→ Burmese: မေ (me)
→ Chichewa: Meyi
→ Dari: می (mey)Category:Persian terms with non-redundant manual transliterations#MAY
→ Hausa: Mayu
→ Hawaiian: Mei
→ Hindi: मई (maī)
→ Marshallese: Māe
→ Māori: Mei
→ Swahili: Mei
→ Tokelauan: Me
→ Tongan: Mē, Me

fifth month of the Gregorian calendar

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abbreviation of the month above

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hawthorn or its blossoms

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The surname is converged from several origins:

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Cebuano

From English Category:Cebuano terms derived from English#MAY May, from Middle English Category:Cebuano terms derived from Middle English#MAY, from Old English Category:Cebuano terms derived from Old English#MAY, from Old French Category:Cebuano terms derived from Old French#MAY mai, from Latin Category:Cebuano terms derived from Latin#MAY maius (“Maia's month”), from Maia, a Roman earth goddess, possibly from Proto-Indo-European Category:Cebuano terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#MAY *magya (“she who is great”), from Proto-Indo-European Category:Cebuano terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#MAY base *meg- (“great”).

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Middle French

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May (month)

French: mai
- Guianese Creole: mè
- Haitian Creole: me
- → English: may
- → Iranian Persian: مه (me)
- Louisiana Creole: mê
- → South Azerbaijani: مه (mə)
- → Tunisian Arabic: ماي (mēy)

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Norwegian

From English Category:Norwegian terms derived from English#MAY May.

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Swedish

From English Category:Swedish terms derived from English#MAY May.

May c (genitive Mays)Category:Swedish lemmas#MAY Category:Swedish proper nouns#MAY Category:Swedish entries with incorrect language header#MAY Category:Swedish common-gender nouns#MAY Category:Pages with entries#MAY Category:Pages with 9 entries#MAY

Tagalog

Borrowed from English Category:Tagalog terms borrowed from English#MAY Category:Tagalog terms derived from English#MAY May.

May (Baybayin spelling ᜋᜒᜌ᜔)Category:Tagalog lemmas#MAY Category:Tagalog proper nouns#MAY Category:Tagalog terms with Baybayin script#MAY Category:Tagalog entries with incorrect language header#MAY Category:Pages with entries#MAY Category:Pages with 9 entries#MAY

Abbreviation of MayoCategory:Tagalog abbreviations#MAY.

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Turkish

Vietnamese

From may (“lucky”). Compare Hạnh with the same meanings.

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