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HelpRe: In honour of mother's day yesterday here in Scotland
in reply to a message by Felie
That's interesting! I'd never associated it with 'sabra', which also means 'someone born in Israel', unlike so many Israelis who emigrated there.
In England there's a river called the Severn, which was Latinised to Sabrina. Most British rivers have retained some form of their original Celtic names, the meanings of which are mostly lost. So I've always thought of Sabrina as a river goddess or guardian nymph; there was apparently also an actress in the 1950s who used the name Sabrina; she was a fake blonde with the kind of figure that could not be confined to clothing, and I don't think she could act at all but no doubt her fans didn't mind. I shouldn't think that would stop anyone in the UK from using Sabrina nowadays, though I'd be surprised to encounter one in her 60s.
In England there's a river called the Severn, which was Latinised to Sabrina. Most British rivers have retained some form of their original Celtic names, the meanings of which are mostly lost. So I've always thought of Sabrina as a river goddess or guardian nymph; there was apparently also an actress in the 1950s who used the name Sabrina; she was a fake blonde with the kind of figure that could not be confined to clothing, and I don't think she could act at all but no doubt her fans didn't mind. I shouldn't think that would stop anyone in the UK from using Sabrina nowadays, though I'd be surprised to encounter one in her 60s.
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