maria

IPA: mɝˈiʌ

Root Word: Maria

A female given name from Hebrew.
Synonym of Mary, mother of Jesus, in Latin, Spanish, etc. contexts.
A surname originating as a matronymic.
A Dravidian language spoken in Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh provinces in India.
A Papuan language spoken in Papua New Guinea.

Examples of "maria" in Sentences

The dark areas on the moon are known as maria (MAHR ee uh).
Interestingly, the far side has almost no "maria" or dark spots.
The word maria is Latin for seas; its singular is mare (MAHR ee).
Nonetheless, I shared my empty library out under the name maria i sweat your music collection
I'd say give up on expecting "maria" to be have the same relationship with you that you had before, because basically you don't.
The dark spots on the moon were named "maria," from the Latin word for seas, because scientists believed they were bodies of water.
Our new LRO LOLA dataset shows that the older highland impactor population can be clearly distinguished from the younger population in the lunar 'maria' -- giant impact basins filled with solidified lava flows [...]
June 26th, 2009 5: 52 pm ET how comments come back to bite you ... i bet he is wishing he could take back all the self-righteous things he said during the clinton-lewinsky scandal. in the words of "maria", [he] "cant put the GENIUS back in the bottle".