Adina (first name)
Adina is a female given name that occurs in numerous languages . He is mentioned in the Bible as a male name.
Origin and meaning
The first name Adina has different meanings. In the Old Testament , ( 1 Chr 11.42 ELB ), a captain of the Rubenites named Adina is mentioned. He lived in the time of David . In modern Hebrew , `adinā means " noble, fine, elegant, delicate ".
variants
Adeana, Adeen, Adeene, Adena, Adine, Adin (male)
Adina also occurs as an extension of the feminine given name Ada . Adina is also a Persian given name for a girl born on a Friday.
Name bearers
First name
Women
- Adine Gemberg (1860–1902), German writer
- Adina Howard (* 1974), American singer
- Adina Izarra (* 1959), Venezuelan composer
- Adina Mandlová (also Lil Adina; 1910–1991), Czech actress
- Adine Masson , French fin du siècle tennis player
- Adina Porter (* 1971), American actress
- Adina Vălean (* 1968), Romanian politician
- Adina Vetter (* 1980), German film and theater actress
Men
- Adin B. Capron (1841-1911), American politician
- Adin Steinsaltz (1937–2020), Israeli rabbi and Talmud scholar
- Adin Talbar (1921–2013), Israeli diplomat
Fictional character
- Adina, main character in the opera L'elisir d'amore (German Der Liebestrank ) by Gaetano Donizetti
Individual evidence
- ^ Adina on vornames-weltweit.de
- ↑ a b Duden: The large first name dictionary . 3. Edition. Mannheim 2007. ISBN 9783411060832
- ↑ Wilfried Seibicke: First names . German language publisher. Wiesbaden 1977. ISBN 388228000X