mayor

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈmɛə̯/
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• General-American: /ˈmeɪ̯.ɚ/
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• /ˈmɛɚ/ some US dialects such as Chicago
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• /ˈmɛɹ/ some US dialects such as Chicago
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• rhymes with -ɛə(ɹ)
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• rhymes with -eɪə(ɹ)
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• homophone: Mayer
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• homophone: mare (dialectally)
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• CMU ARPABET: M EY1 ER0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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* As an English surname, variant of Mayer. * As a Spanish surname, from the adjective mayor (“older, elder”). * Also as a Spanish surname, from the archaic noun major (“mayor, chief”), itself related to the above. * As a Jewish surname, variant of Meyer.

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *méǵh2s Proto-Indo-European *-yōs Proto-Indo-European *méǵh2yōs Proto-Italic *majjōs Latin maior Old French mairebor. Middle English maire English mayor From Middle English maire, from Old French maire (“head of a city or town government”), a substantivation of Old French maire (“greater”), from Latin maior (“bigger, greater, superior”), comparative of magnus (“big, great”). Doublet of major. Cognate with Old High German meior (“estate manager, steward, bailiff”) (modern German Meier), Middle Dutch meier (“administrator, steward, bailiff”) (modern Dutch meier). Displaced Old English burgealdor (“a ruler of a city, mayor, citizen”), burhġerēfa (“boroughreeve”), and portġerēfa (“portreeve”).

171 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Akkadian: ḫazannum — leader of a city
• Akkadian: hazannātum — leader of a city
• Albanian: kryebashkiak — leader of a city
• Arabic: عُمْدَة (ʕumda) — leader of a city
• Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܪܹܝܫ ܡܕܝܼܢ݇ܬܵܐ (rēš mdīta) — leader of a city
• Armenian: քաղաքապետ (kʻaġakʻapet) — leader of a city
• Asturian: alcalde — leader of a city
• Asturian: alcaldesa — leader of a city
• Azerbaijani: icra hakimiyyəti başçısı — leader of a city
• Azerbaijani: icra başçısı — leader of a city
• Azerbaijani: mer — leader of a city
• Basque: alkate — leader of a city
• Basque: auzapez — leader of a city
• Belarusian: мэр (mer) — leader of a city
• Belarusian: мэ́рка (mérka) — leader of a city
• Breton: maer — leader of a city
• Bulgarian: кмет (kmet) — leader of a city
• Bulgarian: кмети́ца (kmetíca) — leader of a city
• Bulgarian: градонача́лник (gradonačálnik) — leader of a city
• Bulgarian: градонача́лничка (gradonačálnička) — leader of a city
• Bulgarian: градонача́лница (gradonačálnica) — leader of a city
• Burmese: မြို့တော်ဝန် (mrui.tauwan) — leader of a city
• Catalan: alcalde — leader of a city
• Catalan: alcaldessa — leader of a city
• Catalan: batlle — leader of a city
• Catalan: batllessa — leader of a city
• Cebuano: alkalde — leader of a city
• Cebuano: mayor — leader of a city
• Chinese Cantonese: 市長 /市长 (si5 zoeng2) — leader of a city
• Chinese Mandarin: 市長 /市长 (shìzhǎng) — leader of a city
• Czech: starosta — leader of a city
• Czech: starostka — leader of a city
• Danish: borgmester — leader of a city
• Danish: borgmesterinde — leader of a city
• Dutch: burgemeester — leader of a city
• Erzya: ошазор (ošazor) — leader of a city
• Esperanto: urbestro — leader of a city
• Estonian: linnapea — leader of a city
• Faroese: borgarstjóri — leader of a city
• Finnish: pormestari — leader of a city
• Finnish: kaupunginjohtaja — leader of a city
• Finnish: määri — leader of a city
• French: maire — leader of a city
• French: mairesse — leader of a city
• French: bourgmestre — leader of a city
• Galician: alcalde — leader of a city
• Galician: alcaldesa — leader of a city
• Georgian: მერი (meri) — leader of a city
• German: Bürgermeister — leader of a city
• German: Bürgermeisterin — leader of a city
• Bavarian German: Buagamasta — leader of a city
• Greek: δήμαρχος (dímarchos) — leader of a city
• Greek: δημαρχίνα (dimarchína) — leader of a city
• Greenlandic: borgmesteri — leader of a city
• Hebrew: ראש עירייה \ רֹאשׁ עִירִיָּה (rosh iriyá) — leader of a city
• Hebrew: רֹאשׁ עִיר (rosh ir) — leader of a city
• Hindi: महापौर (mahāpaur) — leader of a city
• Hindi: मेयर (meyar) — leader of a city
• Hungarian: polgármester — leader of a city
• Hungarian: főpolgármester — leader of a city
• Icelandic: borgarstjóri — leader of a city
• Icelandic: bæjarstjóri — leader of a city
• Ido: urbestro — leader of a city
• Ilocano: basar — leader of a city
• Indonesian: wali kota — leader of a city
• Interlingua: burgomaestro — leader of a city
• Irish: méara — leader of a city
• Italian: sindaco — leader of a city
• Italian: sindaca — leader of a city
• Italian: primo cittadino — leader of a city
• Italian: prima cittadina — leader of a city
• Japanese: 市長 (shichō) — leader of a city
• Javanese: walikutha — leader of a city
• Kazakh: қалабасы (qalabasy) — leader of a city
• Kazakh: мэр (mér) — leader of a city
• Khmer: ចៅហ្វាយក្រុង (caw vaay krong) — leader of a city
• Korean: 시장 (sijang) — leader of a city
• Northern Kurdish: şaredar — leader of a city
• Northern Kurdish: şaredar — leader of a city
• Kyrgyz: мэр (mer) — leader of a city
• Kyrgyz: шаарбашы (şaarbaşı) — leader of a city
• Lao: ນາຍົກເທສະມົນຕີ (nk thē sa mon tī) — leader of a city
• Latvian: mērs — leader of a city
• Latvian: mēre — leader of a city
• Lithuanian: meras — leader of a city
• Lithuanian: merė — leader of a city
• Luxembourgish: Buergermeeschter — leader of a city
• Macedonian: градоначалник (gradonačalnik) — leader of a city
• Macedonian: градоначалничка (gradonačalnička) — leader of a city
• Macedonian: градоначалница (gradonačalnica) — leader of a city
• Malay: datuk bandar — leader of a city
• Maltese: sindku — leader of a city
• Manx: meoir — leader of a city
• Māori: mea — leader of a city
• Marathi: महापौर (mahāpaur) — leader of a city
• Mongolian: хотын дарга (xotyn darga) — leader of a city
• Mongolian: ᠬᠣᠲᠠ ᠶᠢᠨ ᠳᠠᠷᠤᠭ᠎ᠠ (qota-yin daruɣ-a) — leader of a city
• Norman: maire — leader of a city
• Norwegian Bokmål: borgermester — leader of a city
• Norwegian Bokmål: borgermesterinne — leader of a city
• Norwegian Bokmål: ordfører — leader of a city
• Norwegian Bokmål: ordførerinne — leader of a city
• Norwegian Nynorsk: borgarmeister — leader of a city
• Norwegian Nynorsk: ordførar — leader of a city
• Norwegian Nynorsk: ordførarinne — leader of a city
• Occitan: cònsol — leader of a city
• Pannonian Rusyn: городоначалнїк (horodonačalnjik) — leader of a city
• Pannonian Rusyn: городоначалнїца (horodonačalnjica) — leader of a city
• Pashto: ښاروال (x̌ārwāl) — leader of a city
• Iranian Persian: شَهْرْدار (šahrdâr) — leader of a city
• Polish: burmistrz — leader of a city
• Polish: burmistrzyni — leader of a city
• Polish: prezydent miasta — leader of a city
• Portuguese: prefeito — leader of a city
• Portuguese: presidente da câmara — leader of a city
• Quechua: kamachiq — leader of a city
• Réunion Creole French: mèr — leader of a city
• Romanian: primar — leader of a city
• Romanian: primăreasă — leader of a city
• Romanian: primăriță — leader of a city
• Russian: мэр (mɛr) — leader of a city
• Russian: градонача́льник (gradonačálʹnik) — leader of a city
• Russian: градонача́льница (gradonačálʹnica) — leader of a city
• Russian: бургоми́стр (burgomístr) — leader of a city
• Northern Sami: sátnejođiheaddji — leader of a city
• Northern Sami: bormeašttir — leader of a city
• Scottish Gaelic: mèar — leader of a city
• Scottish Gaelic: probhaist — leader of a city
• Serbo-Croatian: градона́челнӣк — leader of a city
• Serbo-Croatian: градона́челница — leader of a city
• Serbo-Croatian: gradonáčelnīk — leader of a city
• Serbo-Croatian: gradonáčelnica — leader of a city
• Slovak: starosta — leader of a city
• Slovak: starostka — leader of a city
• Slovene: župan — leader of a city
• Slovene: županja — leader of a city
• Lower Sorbian: šołta — leader of a city
• Lower Sorbian: šołtowka — leader of a city
• Upper Sorbian: měšćanosta — leader of a city
• Spanish: alcalde — leader of a city
• Spanish: alcaldesa — leader of a city
• Spanish: intendente — leader of a city
• Spanish: presidente municipal — leader of a city
• Spanish: regente — leader of a city
• Spanish: síndico — leader of a city
• Spanish: síndica — leader of a city
• Swahili: meya — leader of a city
• Swedish: borgmästare — leader of a city
• Swedish: borgmästarinna — leader of a city
• Tagalog: alkalde — leader of a city
• Tajik: мэр (mer) — leader of a city
• Tajik: шаҳрдор (šahrdor) — leader of a city
• Thai: นายกเทศมนตรี (naa-yók-têet-sà-mon-dtrii) — leader of a city
• Thai: นายก (naa-yók) — leader of a city
• Turkish: belediye başkanı — leader of a city
• Turkmen: mer — leader of a city
• Ukrainian: мер (mer) — leader of a city
• Ukrainian: ме́рка (mérka) — leader of a city
• Urdu: رَئِیسِ بَلْدِیَہ (raīs-i baldiya) — leader of a city
• Urdu: میئَر (mear) — leader of a city
• Uyghur: شەھەر باشلىقى (sheher bashliqi) — leader of a city
• Uzbek: mer — leader of a city
• Venetan: prefeto — leader of a city
• Venetan: sìndico — leader of a city
• Vietnamese: thị trưởng — leader of a city
• Volapük: sifal — leader of a city
• Volapük: hisifal — leader of a city
• Volapük: jisifal — leader of a city
• Welsh: maer — leader of a city
• Yiddish: בירגערמײַסטער (birgermayster) — leader of a city
• Yiddish: מייאָר (meyor) — leader of a city