Masha
In Russian, 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.
The Jewish name Masha (מַשה)[1] is actually of Biblical extraction. Tradition has it that the first Masha was named after a departed male named Moshe (Moses).
Other diminutives of Maria
There are a large number of diminutives (nicknames) in Russian for Maria beside Masha:
- Marusya (Маруся)
- Manya (Маня)
- Manyunya (Манюня)
- Manyasha (Маняша)
- Mashunya (Машуня)
- Mashuta (Машута)
- Mashenka (Машенька)
- Mar'ya (Марья)
- Mashulya (Машуля)
- Mashka (Машка)
People named Masha
- Masha Bruskina (1924–1941), Soviet partisan of the Minsk Resistance
- Masha Dashkina Maddux, Ukrainian dancer
- Masha Gessen (born 1967), Russian and American journalist and author
- Maria 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
- Marie Yovanovitch (born 1958), American diplomat who served as ambassador to Kyrgyzstan, Armenia and Ukraine.
- Maria Arkhipova (born 1983), lead singer of the Russian folk metal band Arkona.
Fictional characters
- Masha and the bear (Mаша 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 the TV series The Blacklist
- Masha, part of Elizabeth's entourage in the film Young Frankenstein
- Masha, obsessed fan in The King of Comedy (1983) played by Sandra Bernhard
- Marya "Masha" Morevna the main character in Deathless a retelling of Russian folklore
References
- ^ "Where Does the Jewish name Masha Come From?". www.chabad.org. Retrieved 2017-06-12.
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