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Raina - my name - is also a US English corruption of the name of the Irish Gaelic name Áine {pronounced 'Awnya'}. Áine is the Irish Goddess of youth, fertility, the Moon, the harvest, Midsummer, sovereignty and myriad other things.
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Why did I give this name to my daughter? Raina means:
Queen (from reine; french, or any Latin language)
Joy; song (from rina; Hebrew)
Pure; clean (רֵיינָא in Yiddish)
Rain (english)
Rhine, the river (from Рейн russian)
Paradise (as comments suggest from ray in bulgarian)
Peaceful sky (tahitian)
Night ( रैना in Hindi/Urdu)
Wise ライナ or らいな (on this website, in Japanese, from 怜 (rei) meaning "wise" and 奈 (na), a phonetic character. According to japanesenames.info, when they use chinese characters, the same phonetic name can have so many different meanings, since you can write the characters differently. The sound Rain can also be:蕾 bud; 莉 jasmine; 萊 grass; 菜 greens... Plus the sound na can be: 那 beautiful; 愛 love; 夏summer; 渚 beach; 桃 peach; 奈 apple tree- but this is on the web-i don't specialize in Asian languages- and I already see the apple tree translation is identical to the name particle translation..)
My partner speaks Arabic. Although Raina does not have a particular meaning rooted in Arabic, راينا CAN be easily pronounced - and I confirm it does not have any vulgar meaning in Arabic.
So you see, Raina is a truly universal and international name with a nice meaning on almost any continent. A good choice in this era of globalisation. It is not too tricky to pronounce either in Europe or in the US- but ONE of her (European) teachers did pronounce it like Rhinoceros, instead of Rain-a, which makes me wonder if it was the best choice after all. My second worry is that it is not as unisex as "Raine" - which would ease her life once the time comes to fill in job applications. But should a queen be worried by job apps anyway...
One user's comment here said it means sun. I can't find a confirmation for that. Do you mean it is from English for "Ray", like a ray of sunlight?
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Queen (from reine; french, or any Latin language)
Joy; song (from rina; Hebrew)
Pure; clean (רֵיינָא in Yiddish)
Rain (english)
Rhine, the river (from Рейн russian)
Paradise (as comments suggest from ray in bulgarian)
Peaceful sky (tahitian)
Night ( रैना in Hindi/Urdu)
Wise ライナ or らいな (on this website, in Japanese, from 怜 (rei) meaning "wise" and 奈 (na), a phonetic character. According to japanesenames.info, when they use chinese characters, the same phonetic name can have so many different meanings, since you can write the characters differently. The sound Rain can also be:蕾 bud; 莉 jasmine; 萊 grass; 菜 greens... Plus the sound na can be: 那 beautiful; 愛 love; 夏summer; 渚 beach; 桃 peach; 奈 apple tree- but this is on the web-i don't specialize in Asian languages- and I already see the apple tree translation is identical to the name particle translation..)
My partner speaks Arabic. Although Raina does not have a particular meaning rooted in Arabic, راينا CAN be easily pronounced - and I confirm it does not have any vulgar meaning in Arabic.
So you see, Raina is a truly universal and international name with a nice meaning on almost any continent. A good choice in this era of globalisation. It is not too tricky to pronounce either in Europe or in the US- but ONE of her (European) teachers did pronounce it like Rhinoceros, instead of Rain-a, which makes me wonder if it was the best choice after all. My second worry is that it is not as unisex as "Raine" - which would ease her life once the time comes to fill in job applications. But should a queen be worried by job apps anyway...
One user's comment here said it means sun. I can't find a confirmation for that. Do you mean it is from English for "Ray", like a ray of sunlight?
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It means "Peaceful Sky" in Tahitian.
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"Raina" literally means "sun"!
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In addition to "queen" and "paradise", I've seen Raina on another website with the meaning "peaceful". I also associate it with the English word rain.
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The Bulgarian name "Raina" (also written "Rayna" in the site) has nothing to do with "Regina"! "Raina" originates from the Bulgarian word "rai" meaning "paradise" as a noun ("rai" is pronounced [rai], where [ai] is a DIPHTHONG, not [rai] with a stress on the "a", like the Italian television). Most probably the confusion comes from the pronunciation of "rai" - the fact that people who see the name written "Raina" or "Rayna" pronounce it [raina] with a stress on the "i" or on the "a", but not [raina] with the DIPHTHONG [ai], in which case the stress falls on the whole "rai".
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Very popular Bulgarian female name. Alternative origin - Ray - which in Bulgarian means paradise.
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