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Mary

  1. མིར་​ཡམ།

    [Heb. Miriam, Gr. Maria or Mariam]

    Biblical: 1) Miriam the sister of Aaron: ཨ་​རོན་​གྱི་​སྲིང་​མོ་​ལུང་​སྟོན་​མ་​མིར་​ཡམ། Aaron's sister, Miriam the prophetess; 2) Mary the mother of Jesus: ཁོང་​གི་​ཡུམ་​མིར་​ཡམ་​ནི་​ཡོ་​སེབ་​དང་​ཁྱིམ་​ཐབ་​བྱེད་​པ་​ཐག་​ཆོད་​ནས། His mother Mary was pledged to be married to Joseph (Mt. 1:18).

  2. མ་​ལི་​ཡ།

    [Ch.]

    Mary (JFS).