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Ирина
“peace”
Ирина (Irína) is a feminine given name from Ancient Greek, meaning “peace.” It is used in Russian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, and Pannonian Rusyn.
Bulgarian and Macedonian and Russian and rskWritten in Cyrillic script. In English: Irene.
Meaning & origin
How it developed
In Pannonian Rusyn usage, Ирина developed from Εἰρήνη.
Ирина’s family of names
In Russian usage, Ирина has a diminutive in И́ра. In Russian usage, Ирина shares a linguistic root with the English form Irene. In Russian usage, Ирина has a conventional equivalent in the English form Irina.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Ирина has relatives in 17 languages. Lines run from its Ancient Greek roots to each of them.
Ancient Greekwhere Ирина comes from · 1 name
Nicknames & forms 7
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 13
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- IrenaPolish, Czech
- Irynaequivalent
- Eiriniequivalent
- Irenequivalent
- Iriniequivalent
- Ireenequivalent
- Іринаequivalent
- Ірынаequivalent
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People named Ирина
- Irina ShaykRussian model and television personality (born 1986)
- Irina BokovaBulgarian diplomatborn 1952
- Irina RodninaRussian politician and figure skaterborn 1949
- Irina SlutskayaRussian figure skaterborn 1979
- Irina PrivalovaRussian athleteborn 1968
- Irina-Camelia BeguRomanian female tennis playerborn 1990
- Irina KhakamadaRussian politician (born in 1955)
- Irina PressSoviet athlete (1939-2004)
- Irina VlahMoldovan politicianborn 1974
Characters named Ирина: Irina Derevko (fictional character on the television series Alias).
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