Mina (given name)

Mina is a given name with a variety of origins, used as a feminine name in some cultures and a masculine name in others.

Egypt

Mina (Egyptian Arabic: مينا‎; pronounced [ˈmiːnæ]), also transcribed Mena or Meena, is a male given name for Egyptian Christians.

  • Mina (fl. c. 3100 BC), a.k.a. Menes, legendary Egyptian ruler and the first pharaoh of Egypt.
  • St. Mina (Saint Menas; fl. 3rd century AD), Coptic religious leader (martyr)

Arabic

Meena (Arabic: mīnā' مِينَاء) is the irregular feminine noun for port. See Mina (disambiguation)

India

Meena or Mina is an Indian tribe.

Meena, or Mina, is a name given to females in India. It is commonly used by Christians, Hindus and Parsees. The name is a shortened form of Meenakshi (beautiful fish-shaped eyes; Meen = fish; akshi = eyes), and is commonly used by South Indian Hindus. Nasrani Christians from Kerala and Parsees might use this name due to their ancient Persian heritage (Mina is a commonly used female name in Iran). See Meena (disambiguation)

Japanese

Mina is a Japanese feminine given name. It may be written various ways in kanji, including 美奈, 美那, and 未菜.[1]

Korean

Mina
Hangul 민아
Hanja 敏雅, 珉娥, 慜娥, and others
Revised Romanization Min-a
McCune–Reischauer Mina
Alternative spelling
Hangul 미나
Revised Romanization Mi-na
McCune–Reischauer Mina

Mina, Meena, and Minah are various Roman alphabet spellings of two homophonous Korean feminine given names with different hangul spellings. The meaning differs based on the hanja used to write each syllable of the name.

For the name Min-a (민아), there are 27 hanja with the reading "min" and 20 hanja with the reading "a" on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be used in given names.[2]

For the name Mi-na (미나), there are 31 hanja with the reading "mi" and 16 hanja with the reading "na" on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be used in given names.[2]

  • Mina Cho (born 1960), South Korean writer
  • Son Mi-na (born 1964), South Korean handball player
  • Meena Lee (born 1981), South Korean golfer
  • Kang Mi-na (born 1999), South Korean singer, member of I.O.I and Gugudan

Persian

Mina (Persian: مینا‎) is a female given name in Iran, meaning "azure", "glass bead", or "enamel".[3]

Pashto

Mina (Pashto: مینا‎) means "love" in Pashto, an Indo-Iranic language spoken in Afghanistan and the northwestern regions of Pakistan,[4] which is the feminine noun for the word "lover" – the masculine form is "māyan ماين". Although no source of it as used in a name except for the Persian "Meena". See Meena (disambiguation)

Other

Mina can be a short form of the feminine names Wilhelmina or Hermina.

Fictional

See also

References

  1. ↑ Breen, Jim (2011). Japanese Names Dictionary. Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group. Archived from the original on 5 December 2012. Retrieved 2012-12-02.
  2. 1 2 "인명용 한자표" [Table of hanja for use in personal names] (PDF). South Korea: Supreme Court. Retrieved 2013-10-17.
  3. ↑ Steingass, Francis Joseph. "مینا mīnā". A Comprehensive Persian-English Dictionary. Digital Dictionaries of South Asia. University of Chicago. Retrieved 2014-04-16.
  4. ↑ Raverty, H.G. "مینا mai-nā". A Dictionary of the Puk'hto, Pus'hto, or language of the Afghans. Digital Dictionaries of South Asia. University of Chicago. p. 955. Retrieved 2014-04-16.

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