Mariia

Proper noun

Mariia (plural Mariias)

1. A transliteration of the Russian female given name Мари́я (Maríja), equivalent to Mary.
   • Sophia Dorothea adopted the Russian Orthodox name Mariia Fedorovna.1982, Hugh Ragsdale, “Paul I (Pavel Petrovich)”, in Joseph L[eon] Wieczynski, editor, The Modern Encyclopedia of Russian and Soviet History, volume 27 (Pares, Bernard – Peterhof Conferences of 1905)...
   • [I]n 1838 the community was elevated to a monastery, and [Margarita] Tuchkova, having been tonsured and given the monastic name Mariia, was appointed abbess.1993, Brenda Meehan, “Popular Piety, Local Initiative, and the Founding of Women’s Religious Communities in Russia, 1764–1907”, in Stephen K[almar] Batalden, editor, Seeking God: The Recovery of...
2. A transliteration of the Ukrainian female given name Марі́я (Maríja), equivalent to Mary.
   • The post office searched for the sender and found another Gordichuk, who also came from Bukovyna and had a wife there named Mariia.1981, William A[ndrew] Czumer, translated by Louis T. Laychuk, “The Political Process in the Whitford District of Alberta”, in Recollections About the Life of the First Ukrainian Settlers in Canada...
   • After the death of her husband in 1665, she devoted herself to church and community work, joined the *Lutske Brotherhood of the Elevation of the Cross in 1666, and later entered a monastery, where she took the name Mariia Mahdalyna.1993, “Mazepa, Maryna”, in Danylo Husar Struk, editor, Encyclopedia of Ukraine, volume III (L–Pf), Toronto, Ont.: University of Toronto Press, →ISBN, page 355, column 2