English

Proper noun

Nina

1. A female given name in continuous use since the 19th century.
   • 1990 Sue Miller, Family Pictures, Harper & Row, ISBN 0060163976, pages 5, 25:

     The first three, Macklin, Lydia, and Randall, were the special ones. Even those names, we thought, showed greater imagination, greater involvement on our parents' part, than ours did: Nina, Mary, Sarah. Clearly by that time they had run out of gas. - - -

     "Nina. Such a pretty, old-fashioned name. I hope you don't mind my saying that." "No; I'm glad you think so."

2. The Babylonian goddess of the watery deep, daughter of Ea.

Related terms

• Ninotchka

Translations

Anagrams

• Inna

Czech

Proper noun

Nina f

1. A female given name, cognate to English Nina.

Danish

Proper noun

Nina

1. A female given name popular in the 1970s and the 1980s.

Faroese

Proper noun

Nina f

1. A female given name

Usage notes

Matronymics

• son of Nina: Ninuson
• daughter of Nina: Ninudóttir

Declension

Finnish

Etymology

From Russian Ни́на ‎(Nína).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈninɑ]
• (when perceived as a Swedish spelling) IPA^(key): [ˈniːnɑ]
• Hyphenation: Ni‧na

Proper noun

Nina

1. A female given name popular in the 1970s and the 1980s. Variant: Niina.

Declension

Anagrams

• Anni, nain

French

Etymology

Associated with Ninette and Ninon, French pet forms of Jeannine, Jeanne.

Proper noun

Nina

1. A female given name.

Anagrams

• nain

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈniːna]
• Hyphenation: Ni‧na

Proper noun

Nina

1. A female given name popular since the 1980s.

Latvian

Etymology

First recorded as a given name of Latvians in early 20th century. From Russian Ни́на ‎(Nína).

Proper noun

Nina f

1. A female given name.
2. A transliteration of Russian female given name Ни́на ‎(Nína).

Related terms

• Ņina

References

• Klāvs Siliņš: Latviešu personvārdu vārdnīca. Riga "Zinātne" 1990, ISBN 5-7966-0278-0
• Population Register of Latvia: Nina was the only given name of 969 persons in Latvia on May 21st 2010, including Russian speakers.

Norwegian

Etymology

From Russian Ни́на ‎(Nína), and from given names ending in -nina/-nine.

Proper noun

Nina

1. A female given name popular in the 1960s and the 1970s.

References

• Kristoffer Kruken - Ola Stemshaug: Norsk personnamnleksikon, Det Norske Samlaget, Oslo 1995, ISBN 82-521-4483-7
• Statistisk sentralbyrå, Namnestatistikk: 17 778 females with the given name Nina living in Norway on January 1st 2011, with the frequency peak in the 1960s. Accessed on April 18th, 2011.

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowing from Russian Ни́на ‎(Nína), from Georgian ნინო ‎(nino).

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈni.nɐ/

Proper noun

Nina f

1. A female given name, equivalent to English Nina

Slovak

Proper noun

Nina f

1. A female given name.

Swedish

Proper noun

Nina

1. A female given name popular in the 1970s and the 1980s.

Aymara

Noun

nina

1. fire

Catalan

Alternative forms

• (child): nena

Noun

nina f ‎(plural nines, masculine nin)

1. (anatomy) pupil
2. (dialectal) girl, female child

Synonyms

• (pupil): pupil·la

Dalmatian

Etymology

From a Vulgar Latin root *ninna, a nursery or infantile word.

Noun

nina f

1. mother

Estonian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *nenä.

Noun

nina ‎(genitive nina, partitive nina)

1. (anatomy) nose
2. tip

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Japanese

Romanization

nina

1. rōmaji reading of にな

Kamano

Noun

nina

1. Alternative form of ni (water)

References

• The Papuan Languages of New Guinea (1986, ISBN 0521286212)

Miskito

Noun

nina

1. name

Quechua

Noun

nina

1. fire for cooking, candle, match

Declension

See also

• ninay
• ninayay

Sasak

Noun

nina

1. woman, female

References

• Dictionary of the Sasak language of Lombok, with Indonesian and English (1995)

Zulu

Pronoun

nina ‎(combining stem -ni, combined with possessive concord -ithu)

1. you (plural), you all

See also