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In the Russian language, Masha (Маша) is a diminutive of Maria. It has been used as a nickname or as a pet name for women named Maria or Marie. An alternative spelling in the Latin alphabet is "Macha". In Serbo-Croatian and Slovene "Maša" is a diminutive of "Marija" but can be a given name in its own right.

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Other diminutives of Maria

  • Marusya (Russian: Маруся)
  • Manya (Russian: Маня)
  • Manyunya (Russian: Манюня)
  • Manyasha (Russian: Маняша)
  • Mashunya (Russian: Машуня)
  • Mashuta (Russian: Машута)
  • Mashenka (Russian: Машенька)
  • Mar'ya (Russian: Марья)
  • Mashulya (Russian: Машуля)
  • Masharik (Russian: Машарик)
  • Mashka (Russian: Машка)

    • People named Masha

  • Masha Bruskina (1924–41), Soviet partisan of the Minsk Resistance
  • Masha Gessen (born 1967), Russian and American journalist and author
  • Maria (Masha) Kolenkina, Russian socialist revolutionary of the late 19th century
  • Masha and Dasha Krivoshlyapova (1950–2003), Russian conjoined twins
  • Masha Lubelsky (born 1936), Israeli former politician
  • Masha Ma, Chinese fashion designer
  • Masha Rasputina (born 1964), Russian pop singer
  • Masha (singer) or Masha Shirin (born 1990 or 1991), Latvian-born American pop singer

    • Fictional characters

  • Masha and the bear (Маша и медведь) in Russian folklore
  • Masha and the Bear, Russian TV series
  • Masha, heroine of Pushkin's novel The Captain's Daughter
  • Masha, one of the title characters in The Three Sisters (play) by Anton Chekhov
  • Masha, Ilya's and Polina's daughter in The Seagull, another Chekhov play
  • Masha, a character in Tokyo Mew Mew, a Japanese manga series
  • Masha Rostova, Elizabeth Keen's birth name in NBC's The Blacklist
  • Masha, part of Elizabeth's entourage in Young Frankenstein
  • Masha, obsessed fan in The King of Comedy (1983) played by Sandra Bernhard

    • References

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