What is "margolies"

Margolies is a surname that, like its variants shown below, is derived from the Ashkenazi Hebrew pronunciation of the Hebrew word מרגליות ( Israeli Hebrew [maɹgali'jot]), meaning 'pearls,' and may refer to:

• Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinsky (born 1942), America politician from Philadelphia.
• Moses S. Margolies (1851 – 1936), Russian-born American Orthodox rabbi.
• Rob Margolies, American film director and screenwriter
• Reuvein Margolies (1889 -1971), Israeli author and Talmudic scholar.