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Marta (given name)
Wikipedia's first sentence called it “czech”. Today it says “female given name derived from the aramaic name ܡܳܪܬܳܐ”.
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The opening as it read in 2010
Marta is a Czech, Russian, Finnish, German, Hungarian, Georgian, Italian, Polish, Portuguese and Spanish given name for females , derived from Hebrew ( Judæo-Aramaic ) name מַרְתָּא Martâ "The lady", but some sources claim that it was in use even before the establishment of Christianity , meaning dedicated to Mars .1 It had male form "Martinus" in Roman culture. It has been described as a cognate of Martha and as a feminine variation of Martinus .2
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czech
Now
female given name derived from the aramaic name ܡܳܪܬܳܐ
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