Mina (given name)


Mina is a given name with a variety of origins.

Egypt

Mina, Meina is a male given name for Egyptian Coptic Christians.
Mina in the Coptic language means: a person who is steadfast, committed, unrelenting or determined.

Arabic

Mina, Minnah, Meena 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 glass mirror", artistic paint for porcelain and metal.

Bengali

Meena/Mina can either have its roots from Persian, Sanskrit or transformed from the Arabic female given name "Amina". Meena is a common female given name in Bangladesh. Meena is also the title of the popular Bangladeshi children's animated television series created by UNICEF.

Chinese

Mina is a Chinese feminine given name. It may be written as 米娜, 蜜娜 and 密娜. Na is a commonly used character in Chinese female names.
  • Mina Shum is an independent Canadian filmmaker

Cambodian

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

India

Meena is an Indian female given name.

Japanese

Mina is a Japanese feminine given name. It may be written various ways in kanji, including,, 南 and.

Korean

Mina, Meena, and Minah are various Roman alphabet spellings of two homophonous Korean given names with different hangul spellings 미나 and 민아.

Persian

Mina is a female given name in Iran, meaning "azure", "azure sky", "blue or glass", "glass bead", or "enamel". Mina is also another name of lapis lazuli
Mina is also the name for the birds mockingbird or myna, which easily repeats many sounds like a human voice and the name of the flower marguerite (marguerite daisy).
The Turkish spelling of the name is Mine.

Pashto

Meena or Mina means "love" in Pashto, an Eastern Iranian language spoken in Afghanistan and the Pashtun Diaspora of Pakistan, 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.

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