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English
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Maggie
- A diminutive of the female given name Margaret.
1986, David Leavitt, The Lost Language of Cranes, Houghton Mifflin, published 1997, →ISBN, page 127:Maggie. Never in her life had she heard her mother called Maggie. It was a name from her youth, that dead time Jerene had never been allowed to talk about [- - -]. Her mother was Margaret now.
2004, Joanne Harris, Jigs & Reels, Doubleday, →ISBN, page 81:I could tell that some of the guests were confused by the name of Maggie―no-one had called her by that clunky, unfashionable name in years―
- (informal) Margaret Thatcher, former British prime minister.
Translations
female given name
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 瑪吉 / 玛吉 (Mǎjí)
- Danish: Grete, Grethe, Merete, Meta, Mette
- Dutch: Greet f, Greetje (nl) n, Griet f
- Finnish: Reeta (fi), Reetta (fi)
- French: Maguy (fr), Margot (fr) f
- Galician: Margarida (gl) f, Marga f
- German: Gretel (de) n or f, Greta f, Gretchen (de) n, Grete (de) f, Meta (de) f
- Hungarian: Gitta (hu), Gréta (hu)
- Icelandic: Gréta (is) f
- Italian: Rita (it) f, Greta f
- Japanese: マギー (Magī)
- Korean: 매기 (Maegi)
- Limburgish: Greet (li)
- Lithuanian: Greta f
- Norwegian: Grete (no) f, Grethe (no) f, Meta f, Mette (no) f
- Polish: Gosia (pl) f, Małgosia (pl) f, Marzena (pl) f
- Spanish: Rita (es) f
- Swedish: Greta (sv), Märta (sv), Meta (sv)
- Welsh: Mared f
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