Mina is a given name with a variety of origins.

Egypt

Mina , Mena or Meina Coptic Μήνης is a male given name for Egyptian Coptic Christians.

Mina in the Coptic language (derived from ancient Egyptian language) means: a person who is steadfast, committed, unrelenting or determined.

Arabic

Mina, Minah, Meena (Arabic: مِينَا mīnā) is an Arabic female given name transformed from the female given name "Amina", but perhaps the Arabic "Mina" is the Persian "Mina" which bears the meaning "stained (tinted) glass mirror", artistic paint (also generic name for enamel or varnish) for porcelain and metal.

• Mina El Hammani (born 1993), Spanish-Moroccan actress

See Mina (disambiguation)

Chinese

Mina is a Chinese female given name. It may be written as 米娜, 蜜娜 and 密娜. Na (娜) is a commonly used character in Chinese female names.

Cambodian

Mina is a unisex name which means the month of March in the Cambodian language, Khmer.[1] It is written មីនា.

India

Meena is an Indian female given name. The name is derived from Hindi मैना maina ultimately from Sanskrit मदन madana-s, which means "joyful".[2]

Japanese

Mina is a Japanese feminine given name. It may be written various ways in kanji, including 美奈, 美那, 南 and 未菜.[3]

Korean

Mina
Hangul
민아
Hanja
敏雅, 珉娥, 慜娥, and others
Revised RomanizationMin-a
McCune–ReischauerMina
Alternative spelling
Hangul
미나
Hanja
美娜, and others
Revised RomanizationMi-na
McCune–ReischauerMina

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.[4]

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.[4]

Persian

Mina (Persian: مینا mīnā) is a female given name in Iran, meaning "azure", "azure sky", "blue (decanter) or glass", "glass bead", or "enamel". Mina is also another name of lapis lazuli (Persian: لاجورد lājward, colloquially "lāzward")

Mina is also the name for the birds mockingbird or myna ('morgh-e-mina' [Persian: مرغِ مينا murgh-i mīnā, literal meaning "Mina bird"]), which easily repeats many sounds like a human voice and the name of the flower marguerite (marguerite daisy) ("gol-e-mina" [Persian: گلِ مينا gul-i mīnā, literal meaning "Mina flower"]).[5]

The Turkish spelling of the name is Mine.

Pashto

Mina or Meena (Pashto: مینه) means "love" in Pashto, an Eastern Iranian language spoken in Afghanistan and the Pashtun Diaspora of Pakistan,[6] which is the feminine noun for the word "lover" – the masculine form is "māyan میين". Although no source of it as used in a name except for the Persian "Mina". See Meena (disambiguation)

Other

Mina can be a short form of the feminine names Wilhelmina, Hermina or Assimina (in the case of Greek names).

Fictional

See also

References

  1. ^ "The Khmer Calendar | Cambodian Religion, Festivals and Zodiac Astrology". The Human Origin Project. 25 April 2019. Retrieved 7 September 2022.
  2. ^ "mynah | Origin and meaning of mynah by Online Etymology Dictionary". www.etymonline.com. Retrieved 11 January 2021.
  3. ^ Breen, Jim (2011). Japanese Names Dictionary. Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group. Archived from the original on 5 December 2012. Retrieved 2 December 2012.
  4. ^ a b "인명용 한자표" [Table of hanja for use in personal names] (PDF). South Korea: Supreme Court. Retrieved 17 October 2013.
  5. ^ Steingass, Francis Joseph. "مینا mīnā". A Comprehensive Persian-English Dictionary. Digital Dictionaries of South Asia. University of Chicago. Retrieved 16 April 2014.
  6. ^ Raverty, H.G. "مینه 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 16 April 2014.
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