Marina

See also: Appendix:Variations of "marina"

English

Etymology

Name of an early virgin martyr venerated in the Orthodox Church, Latin Marīna, probably a feminine form of Marīnus, from marīnus (“of the sea”), or a variant of Marīa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /məˈɹiːnə/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Homophone: marina

Proper noun

Marina

1. A female given name from Latin.
   • c. 1607–1608, William Shakeſpeare, The Late, And much admired Play, Called Pericles, Prince of Tyre. […], London: Imprinted at London for Henry Goſſon,  […], published 1609, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iii]:

     My gentle babe Marina - whom, / for she was born at sea, I have nam'd so -

2. A transliteration of the Russian female given name Марина (Marina).

   Marina Ovsyannikova, b. 1978

3. A city in Monterey County, California, United States.
4. A neighborhood of San Francisco, California, United States.
   • 2023 May 20, Tabby Kinder, George Hammond, “So long, San Francisco”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 1:

     As the start-up took off, they opened an office in Dogpatch, and moved into a house big enough for their growing family in the Marina, a pricey neighbourhood where pastel-coloured terrace houses look over the Golden Gate.

Translations

female given name

• Arabic: مارينا
• Armenian: Մարինա (Marina)
• Belarusian: Марына f (Maryna)
• Bulgarian: Марина f (Marina)
• Cherokee: ᎹᏫᎾ (mawina)
• Chuvash: Марине (Marine)
• Classical Syriac: ܡܐܪܝܢܐ
• Czech: Marina (cs) f
• Danish: Marina c
• Estonian: Marina
• Finnish: Marina (fi)
• French: Marine (fr) f
• Galician: Mariña (gl) f
• Georgian: მარინა (marina)
• German: Marina (de) f
• Greek: Μαρίνα (el) f (Marína)

  Mycenaean: ^{(please verify)} 𐀔𐀪𐀙 (ma-ri-na)

• Hawaiian: Malina
• Hebrew: מרינה (he)
• Hindi: मरीना (hi) (marīnā)
• Inuktitut: ᒪᕆᓇ (marina)
• Italian: Marina (it) f
• Japanese: マリナ (marina), まりな (marina), 満里奈 (marina), マリーナ (Marīna)
• Korean: 마리나 (Marina)
• Latin: Marīna f
• Latvian: Marina f
• Macedonian: Марина f (Marina)
• Polish: Maryna (pl) f
• Portuguese: Marina (pt) f
• Romanian: Marina
• Russian: Мари́на (ru) f (Marína)
• Spanish: Marina (es) f
• Swedish: Marina (sv) c
• Thai: มารีนา (maa-rii-naa)
• Urdu: مرینا
• Yakut: Марыына (Marıına)

Anagrams

• Ramani, amirna, Armani, airman, Marian, Ariman, amiRNA, Ramian

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈmarɪna]

Proper noun

Marina f

1. a female given name, equivalent to English Marina

Declension

Declension of Marina (hard feminine)

	singular	plural
nominative	Marina	Mariny
genitive	Mariny	Marin
dative	Marině	Marinám
accusative	Marinu	Mariny
vocative	Marino	Mariny
locative	Marině	Marinách
instrumental	Marinou	Marinami

Danish

Etymology

Derived from Latin Marīna in the Middle Ages.

Proper noun

Marina

1. a female given name

Related terms

• male given name: Marinus

Estonian

Etymology

Derived from Latin Marīna (a saint's name), also interpreted as a variant of Maria.

Proper noun

Marina

1. a female given name
2. A transliteration of the Russian female given name Мари́на (Marína)

Finnish

Proper noun

Marina

1. essive singular of Mari

Anagrams

• Marian, maarin, marain, raamin, ramina, rimana

French

Etymology

Latin Marīna. A Latinate variant of the French Marine.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ma.ʁi.na/

Proper noun

Marina f

1. a female given name

Anagrams

• marnai, ranima

German

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Proper noun

Marina f

1. a female given name, equivalent to English Marina

Further reading

• “Marina” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “Marina” in Duden online
• “Marina” in Duden online

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /maˈri.na/
• Rhymes: -ina
• Hyphenation: Ma‧rì‧na

Proper noun

Marina f

1. a female given name, equivalent to English Marina

Latvian

Etymology

Derived from Latin Marīna or a variant of Marija (“Mary”). First recorded as a given name of Latvians in 1721.

Proper noun

Marina f

1. a female given name
2. A transliteration of the Russian female given name Мари́на (Marína)

References

• Klāvs Siliņš: Latviešu personvārdu vārdnīca. Riga "Zinātne" 1990, →ISBN
• [1] Population Register of Latvia: Marina was the only given name of 9544 persons in Latvia on May 21st 2010, including Russian speakers.

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin Marīna.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /maˈɾĩ.nɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /maˈɾĩ.nɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /maˈɾi.na/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /mɐˈɾi.nɐ/

• Homophone: marina

Proper noun

Marina f

1. a female given name from Latin, equivalent to English Marina

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Marin ‎ -a.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /marǐːna/

Proper noun

Marína f (Cyrillic spelling Мари́на)

1. a female given name
2. A town near Trogir, Croatia.

Declension

    Declension of Marina

	singular	plural
nominative	Marina	Marine
genitive	Marine	Marina
dative	Marini	Marinama
accusative	Marinu	Marine
vocative	Marino	Marine
locative	Marini	Marinama
instrumental	Marinom	Marinama

Further reading

• “Marina”, in Portal suvremenih hrvatskih osobnih imena [Portal of contemporary Croatian personal names] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2018–2024

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /maˈɾina/ [maˈɾi.na]
• Rhymes: -ina
• Syllabification: Ma‧ri‧na

Proper noun

Marina f

1. a female given name, equivalent to English Marina

Swedish

Etymology

Derived from Latin Marīna (a saint's name). First recorded in Sweden in 1304.

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Proper noun

Marina c (genitive Marinas)

1. a female given name

Anagrams

• rama in