Sabrina

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English

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Proper noun

Sabrina

  1. (Celtic mythology) A legendary Celtic princess who gave her name to the river Severn.
  2. A female given name from the Celtic languages, in regular but quiet use after the release of the film Sabrina (1954).

Quotations

  • 1637, John Milton, Comus:
    There is a gentle nymph not far from hence,
    That with moist curb sways the smooth Severn stream,
    Sabrina is her name, a virgin pure.

Danish

Proper noun

Sabrina

  1. a female given name recently borrowed from English

French

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Sabrina f

  1. a female given name borrowed from English, popular from the 1970s to the 1990s

Anagrams

German

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

Sabrina

  1. a female given name from English, popular from the 1970's to the 1990's

Indonesian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Popularity likely inspired from Arabic صَابْرِينَا (ṣābrīnā), folk etymologized form of earlier سَابْرِينَا (sābrīnā) (now mostly limited to non-Arabs with the name), from English Sabrina based on Arabic root ص ب ر (ṣ b r).

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Sabrina

  1. a female given name from Arabic , equivalent to English Sabrina

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /saˈbri.na/
  • Rhymes: -ina
  • Hyphenation: Sa‧brì‧na

Proper noun

Sabrina f

  1. a female given name

Anagrams

Latin

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View of the river

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *Sabrinā.

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Sabrīna f sg (genitive Sabrīnae); first declension

  1. The river Severn

Declension

First-declension noun, singular only.

Case Singular
Nominative Sabrīna
Genitive Sabrīnae
Dative Sabrīnae
Accusative Sabrīnam
Ablative Sabrīnā
Vocative Sabrīna

References

  • “Sabrina”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • Sabrina in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “Sabrina”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

Proper noun

Sabrina f

  1. a female given name, equivalent to English Sabrina

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /saˈbɾina/
  • Rhymes: -ina
  • Syllabification: Sa‧bri‧na

Proper noun

Sabrina f

  1. a female given name
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