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Nadine (with the variant spellings: Nadeen, Nadene) is a female given name.It is a French elaboration (feminine diminutive; cf. Clémentine, Géraldine, Micheline) of the name Nadia (also spelled Nadja, Nadya) (Russian: Надя, romanized: Nádja, lit.
Anna Cora Mowatt (1819–1870), French-born American author, playwright and actress; Anna Munch (1856–1922), Norwegian novelist and dramatist; Anna Balmer Myers (1884–1972), American writer and teacher; Anna Myszyńska (1931–2019), Silesian writer; Anna Narinskaya (born 1966), Russian journalist and literary critic; Anna Nieto-Gómez ...
Bella is related to the Italian, Spanish, Greek, Portuguese and Latin words for beautiful, and to the name Belle, meaning beautiful in French. [1] [2] It increased in usage following the publication of the Twilight books by Stephenie Meyer. [3] It is also known for being a nickname to Isabella, Annabella or Arabella.
It is formed in a manner similar to other colloquial Russian names (for example, Kostya for Konstantin, Anya for Anna). Russian citizens of Muslim ethnical minorities also have the name of "Aliya" of probably Arabian descent, which is never used by Russians, and is both a full and a short name. In Arabic, Alya means sky, heaven, and loftiness. [1]
Russian model Anastasia Knyazeva is only six years old, but she's already being hailed as "the most beautiful girl in the world." If you recall, the title was once held by French model Thylane ...
borrowed words and foreign names are usually spelled as orthographic transcriptions, or, more precisely, mixed transcriptions-transliterations based mainly on original pronunciation (Jacques-Yves Cousteau is rendered in Russian as Жак-Ив Кусто; the English name Paul is rendered as Пол, the French name Paul as Поль, the German ...
Stefania [in all languages except for Italian and Polish pronounced like Ste-pha-nee-ah] is a female name in Belarusian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Greek, Stefánia Hungarian, Italian, Romanian, Polish, Serbian, Macedonian, Slovak, Slovene, Ukrainian and Russian, [1] [2] [3] originating from Old Greek meaning crowned or the winning.
This is the pronunciation key for IPA transcriptions of Russian on Wikipedia. It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of Russian in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them.