Martha is a feminine given name (Latin from Ancient Greek Μάρθα, from Aramaic מרתא (martā) "the mistress" or "the lady", from מרה "mistress", feminine of מרי "master").
Variants in different languages:
Maata (Maori)Марфа (Marfa) (Russian), formerly spelled "Марѳа" from the Greek version of the name, that the Russians assimilate in FMárta (Hungarian)Marta (Bulgarian, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Italian, Latvian, Macedonian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovene, Spanish, Swedish)Марта (Marta) (Ukrainian)Marthe (French, German)Martta (Finnish)Mártuska (Hungarian)Moireach (Scottish Gaelic)Morta (Lithuanian)A traditional English language nickname was Patty.
