Given name · Russian
Зина
“ornament”
Зина (Zína) is a feminine given name. It is used in Russian.
RussianWritten in Cyrillic script. In English: Zina.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Зина goes back to Arabic Зина, meaning “ornament.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
In Russian usage, Зина is a diminutive of Зинаида.
Зина’s family of names
In Russian usage, Зина has a diminutive in Зи́ночка. In Russian usage, Зина has a conventional equivalent in the English form Zina. In Russian usage, Зина can be written in the Roman alphabet as Zína.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Зина has relatives in 3 languages. Lines run from its Arabic roots to each of them.
6 related names in 3 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 4
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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