Karina (name)

Karina /kəˈriːnə/ is a female given name of modern usage. It can be a variant spelling of Carina (from Latin carus = love) or a short form of Katarina/Katrina.[1]

Karina
Genderfemale
Origin
Word/nameLatin (= precious)
Meaningpure; beloved one
Other names
Related namesCarina, Katrina, Karine, Karin, Katerina, Kabrina, Kariena, Kareena, Karena

It is mainly used in Scandinavia, Poland, and the Americas; when spelled Carina, it is used in Italy and Spain.

In Poland, it is more likely derived from Ekaterina, another variant of Catherine – meaning "pure".

People with the given name

gollark: --choice 100 lyricly potatos gollark
gollark: --choose 100 lyricly potatos gollark
gollark: There's a big table of insults/negative words, things which generally separate clauses, and things which imply they don't mean the real potatOS.
gollark: ```luafunction _G.is_blasphemous(message) local clauses = {message:lower()} for _, sep in pairs(clause_separators) do local out = {} for _, x in pairs(clauses) do for _, y in pairs(string.split(x, sep)) do table.insert(out, y) end end clauses = out end for _, clause in pairs(clauses) do for _, word in pairs(negative_words) do if clause:match(word) and clause:match "potatos" then for _, iword in pairs(ignore_if_present_words) do if clause:match(iword) then return false, iword, clause end end return true, word, clause end end end return falseend```
gollark: It has a surprisingly good algorithm for guessing whether people *intended* to blaspheme potatOS.

See also

  • All pages with titles beginning with Karina
  • All pages with titles containing Karina
  • Karina (disambiguation)
  • Carina (disambiguation), a homonym of Karina
  • Karlina
  • Karine

References

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