Magdalena

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Magdalena is a feminine given name .

Origin and meaning

variants

  • Alena (Belarusian, Slovak, Czech)
  • Alenka (Slovenian)
  • Alenn
  • Annalena
  • Madalenn (Breton)
  • Maddalena , Maddalina (Italian)
  • Madelaine
  • Madeleine, Madelon (French), Magdeleine
  • Madelena (Spanish, Portuguese)
  • Madelene (German, derived from French)
  • Madeline, Madline, Magdalen, Madalyn, Maud (English)
  • Madi (Bern German)
  • Madlaina, Madleina (Rhaeto-Romanic)
  • Madlena (Upper Sorbian, German)
  • Madlene, Madlen (German)
  • Madlenka , Lenka (Czech, Sorbian)
  • Mady , Maddy , Maddie , pet forms in different languages
  • Madzia (Polish diminutive ), also Magdusia, Magdunia, Magdeczka, Magdalenka
  • Magdalawit (Eritrean, Ethiopian)
  • Magdalen (English)
  • Magdalena (Bulgarian, German, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Polish, Romanian, Croatian, Serbian)
  • Magdalene (German, English)
  • Magdalina Магдалина (Russian)
  • Magdolna (Hungarian)
  • Magga, Maggie, Maggy (short forms)
  • Malena (Spanish)
  • Mădălina (Romanian)
  • Malene (Danish, Swedish, Norwegian)
  • Malin, Målin (Swedish)
  • Malina (German)
  • Marlene (German)
  • Talena (Latvian, Scottish)
  • Magdalena, Marlena, Maralena, Madlena (Albanian)

Short forms:

name day

Name days are:

Name bearers

All variations

Nobles

Shaping literature

  • Madeline , picture book series by Ludwig Bemelmans
  • Magdalena , Volksstück by Ludwig Thoma (1912)
  • Magdalene (Lene) Nimptsch, main character in Irrungen, Verrungen by Theodor Fontane
  • Talena, heroine in the science fiction cycle Gor by John Norman

additional

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Jakob Torsy, Hans-Joachim Kracht: The great name day calendar. Herder, Freiburg 2003.