May

Etymology
, from, from mai:, from  maius:, Maia's month, from Maia, a Roman earth goddess, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *magya, she who is great, from Proto-Indo-European base *meg-, great

Proper noun

 * 1) The fifth month of the Gregorian calendar, following April and preceding June.
 * 2) The hawthorn or its blossoms (as it blooms in May)
 * , pet name for Mary and Margaret, reinforced by the month and plant meaning

Derived terms

 * Barcelona May Days
 * Black May
 * Bloody May
 * Constitution of 3 May 1791
 * have climbed May Hill
 * Italian may
 * King of May, King of the May
 * Lady of the May
 * Lord of May, Lord of the May
 * May and January
 * May and December
 * May apple, mayapple
 * May Ball
 * May-bean
 * May beetle
 * May-bird, maybird
 * May bishop
 * May blob
 * May bloom
 * May blossom
 * May bug
 * May Bumps
 * May-bush
 * May butter
 * May-chafter


 * May-cherry
 * May-chick
 * May-chit
 * May Coup d'Etat
 * May curlew
 * May Day
 * May-December
 * May dew
 * May-drink
 * may duke, mayduke
 * May examination
 * Mayey, Mayie
 * Mayfair
 * May-fern
 * May fish, mayfish
 * May flower
 * mayflower
 * May fly, May-fly, mayfly
 * May Fourth Movement
 * May fowl
 * May-gad
 * May game
 * May gowan
 * May grapes
 * May grass


 * May gray
 * May-haw, mayhaw
 * May highflyer
 * May-house
 * Maying, maying
 * May-jack
 * May-king
 * May lady
 * May laws
 * May lily
 * May-lord
 * May Marian
 * May meetings
 * May-morn, May-morning
 * May Morning
 * May parr
 * May peal
 * May pole, maypole
 * May-pop
 * May queen
 * May races
 * May Revolution
 * May-roll
 * May-rose


 * May-sel
 * May-September romance
 * May-skate
 * May skin
 * May-sucker
 * may tag, maytag
 * May-term
 * May thorn
 * Maytime
 * may tree
 * May Uprising
 * may-weed
 * May-week, May Week
 * May whaap
 * May whaup
 * May wine
 * May wool
 * May-worm
 * May-wort
 * Memphis in May
 * mid-May
 * ne'er cast a clout till May be out
 * Queen of May, Queen of the May
 * Sun of May

Related terms

 * Cinco de Mayo

Translations

 * Abaza:
 * Abkhaz:
 * Afrikaans: Mei
 * Alabama: hasiholtina istatáɬɬàapi, Meyka
 * Albanian:
 * Alutiiq:
 * Amharic: መይ
 * Arabic: (māyu),  (’áyyār)
 * Aragonese: mayo
 * Armenian:
 * Asturian: mayu
 * Azeri:
 * Basque:
 * Bavarian:
 * Belarusian:
 * Bengali:
 * Bosnian:
 * Breton: Mae, miz Mae
 * Bulgarian: май (maj)
 * Burmese: မေ (me)
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese: 五月 (wǔyuè)
 * Chuvash: şu, Çу
 * Cornish: mys Me
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Dakota:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: ,
 * Estonian: mai, maikuu, lehekuu
 * Ewe: Damɛ, Mai
 * Faroese: mai
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Friulian: mai
 * Galician: maio
 * Georgian:
 * German: ,
 * Gothic: 𐌼𐌰𐌹
 * Greek: ,
 * Greenlandic:
 * Haitian Creole:
 * Hawaiian:
 * Hebrew: מַאי (may)
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: ,
 * Ido: mayo
 * Indonesian:
 * Interlingua: maio
 * Interlingue: may
 * Irish:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 五月 (ごがつ, gógatsu)
 * Javanese:
 * Kannada:
 * Kashubian: môj


 * Khmer: (ŭsăpīă)
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Latin:
 * Latvian:
 * Limburgish: Mei
 * Lithuanian: gegužė, gegužis
 * Livonian: maij, lēćkū
 * Lombard:
 * Luxembourgish:, Mee, Päischtmount
 * Macedonian:
 * Maltese:
 * Manchu: (sunja biya)
 * Maori: ,
 * Navajo:
 * Neapolitan: maio, majo
 * Norwegian:
 * Novial: maye
 * Occitan: mai
 * Ojibwe: zaagibagaa-giizis
 * Old English:
 * Ossetian:
 * Persian: (me)
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: ,
 * Romansch: mai, maitg, matg, meg
 * Russian:
 * Sami: miessemánnu
 * Scots:
 * Scottish Gaelic: ,
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Roman: maj, svibanj
 * Sicilian: maiu
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Sotho: Motsheanong
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog:
 * Tajik:
 * Tatar:
 * Telugu: మే
 * Thai: (phriōht sà phaa khohm)
 * Tibetan: ཟླ་ལྔ་བ།
 * Tok Pisin: me
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: травень (tráven’)
 * Urdu:
 * Vietnamese: tháng năm [月五]
 * Volapük: mayul
 * Võro: lehekuu
 * Walloon: may
 * Welsh:
 * West Frisian: maaie, blommemoanne
 * Yiddish:


 * Greek: λευκάκανθα


 * Finnish:
 * Latvian:
 * Macedonian: Маја


 * Russian: Майя (Májja), Маечка (Máječka)
 * Slovene: ,
 * Swedish: ,

Anagrams

 * Amy, MYA, Mya, mya, yam

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Proper noun


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