Sabrina

See also: sabrina

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /səˈbɹiːnə/
  • Audio (Southern England):(file)

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).
    • 2023 May 10, Terry Ward, “Zillennials: The newest micro-generation has a name”, in CNN[1]:
      Among the celebrities she considers part of her zillennial cohort are Zendaya and American singer-songwriter Sabrina Carpenter.

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

  • IPA(key): /sa.bʁi.na/

Proper noun

Sabrina f

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

Anagrams

German

Pronunciation

  • Audio:(file)

Proper noun

Sabrina

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

Indonesian

Alternative forms

  • Shabrina

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsabrina/

Proper noun

Sabrina

  1. a female given name from Arabic [in turn from English], 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

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.

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

 
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /saˈbɾĩ.nɐ/
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /saˈbɾi.na/
  • (Portugal) IPA(key): /sɐˈbɾi.nɐ/ [sɐˈβɾi.nɐ]

Proper noun

Sabrina f

  1. a female given name, equivalent to English Sabrina

Spanish

Pronunciation

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

Proper noun

Sabrina f

  1. a female given name