Sabrina

See also: sabrina

English

Proper noun

Sabrina

1. (Celtic mythology) A legendary Celtic princess who gave her name to the river Severn.
2. A female given name from the Celtic languages, in regular but quiet use after the release of the film Sabrina (1954).

Quotations

• 1637, John Milton, Comus:

  There is a gentle nymph not far from hence,
  That with moist curb sways the smooth Severn stream,
  Sabrina is her name, a virgin pure.

Danish

Proper noun

Sabrina

1. a female given name recently borrowed from English

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sa.bʁi.na/

Proper noun

Sabrina f

1. a female given name borrowed from English, popular from the 1970s to the 1990s

Anagrams

• abrasin

German

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Proper noun

Sabrina

1. a female given name from English, popular from the 1970's to the 1990's

Indonesian

Alternative forms

• Shabrina

Etymology

Popularity likely inspired from Arabic صَابْرِينَا (ṣābrīnā), folk etymologized form of earlier سَابْرِينَا (sābrīnā) (now mostly limited to non-Arabs with the name), from English Sabrina based on Arabic root ص ب ر (ṣ b r).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsabrina/

Proper noun

Sabrina

1. a female given name from Arabic [in turn from English], equivalent to English Sabrina

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /saˈbri.na/
• Rhymes: -ina
• Hyphenation: Sa‧brì‧na

Proper noun

Sabrina f

1. a female given name

Anagrams

• sbranai

Latin

View of the river

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *Sabrinā.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /saˈbriː.na/, [s̠äˈbriːnä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /saˈbri.na/, [säˈbriːnä]

Proper noun

Sabrīna f sg (genitive Sabrīnae); first declension

1. The river Severn

Declension

First-declension noun, singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Sabrīna
Genitive	Sabrīnae
Dative	Sabrīnae
Accusative	Sabrīnam
Ablative	Sabrīnā
Vocative	Sabrīna

References

• “Sabrina”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Sabrina in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “Sabrina”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /saˈbɾĩ.nɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /saˈbɾĩ.nɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /saˈbɾi.na/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /sɐˈbɾi.nɐ/ [sɐˈβɾi.nɐ]

Proper noun

Sabrina f

1. a female given name, equivalent to English Sabrina

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /saˈbɾina/ [saˈβ̞ɾi.na]
• Rhymes: -ina
• Syllabification: Sa‧bri‧na

Proper noun

Sabrina f

1. a female given name