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Lena
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Appendix:Variations of "lena"
English
Etymology
The female name is from the Scandinavian, German and Russian pet form of Helena, Magdalena and Yelena (also spelled Elena).
The river in Yakutia is from en ru Лена, from en evn Елюенэ the Large River. Compare to sah Өлүөнэ.
Norwegian river Probably related to Old Norse non leir clay (see the references).
Town in Toten From en non lein.
Pronunciation
en /ˈlɛ.nə/ /ˈli.na/
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Lena.wav Southern England
Proper noun
en female Ancient Greek.
en major river c/Russia, flowing 2,734 miles from the mountains by the lake Baikal to the Arctic Ocean.
en municipality in acomm/Asturias c/Spain.
en river co/Trøndelag c/Norway.
en town co/Toten c/Norway.
Derived terms
en Leaping Lena
en Pola de Lena Spain
Translations
female given name
Danish: da Lene
Faroese: fo Lena f
Finnish: fi Leena
Hungarian: hu Léna
Polish: pl Lena f
Russian: ru Ле́на f, full name ru Еле́на f
river in Russia
Arabic: ar لِينَا f
Armenian: hy Լենա
Belarusian: be Ле́на f
Bengali: bn লেনা, bn লেনা নদী
Bulgarian: bg Ле́на f
Buryat: bua Зүлхэ
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 勒拿河 Lèná Hé
Czech: cs Lena f
Dolgan: dlg Өлүөнэ Ölüöne
Estonian: et Leena
Evenki: evn Елюенэ
Faroese: fo Lena f
Finnish: fi Lena
French: fr Léna f
Galician: gl Lena
Georgian: ka ლენა
German: de Lena f
Greek: el Λένας ποταμός
Hebrew: he לנה lena
Hindi: hi लेना, hi लेना नदी
Japanese: ja レナ川 Rena-gawa, ja レナ Rena
Kazakh: kk Өлөне
Korean: ko ^레나 강, ko ^레나
Latvian: lv Ļena
Macedonian: mk Лена f
Manchu: mnc ᠯᡳᠶ᠋ᠠᠨᠠ, mnc ᠵᡠᡵᡤᡝ
Marathi: mr लेना f
Mongolian: mn Зүлгэ
Polish: pl Lena f
Portuguese: pt Lena m
Russian: ru Ле́на f
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: sh Лена f
Latin: sh Lena
Turkish: tr Lena
Ukrainian: uk Ле́на f
Yakut: sah Өлүөнэ
municipality in Asturias
Asturian: ast Ḷḷena
Spanish: es Lena
References
(etymology of Lensvik)
Anagrams
en aeln lane enal lean Elan elan élan Lean ELAN Nale Neal Lane Alne nale Alen neal
en 2-syllable words female given names from Hebrew
Danish
Proper noun
da proper noun
da female derived from Helena and Magdalena
Faroese
Proper noun
fo proper noun f
fo female
Usage notes
f Lenuson Lenudóttir
Declension
Lena Lenu Lenu Lenu
German
Pronunciation
de /ˈleːna/
de De-Lena.ogg <<Germany>> (<<Berlin>>)
Proper noun
f.gen:s:-[with an article]
de female Magdalena,Helena, popular in the 1990s
Related terms
de Elena Helene Lene Magda
Latin
Etymology
la
Proper noun
Lēna<1> m
la male, character in the play Cistellaria of Plautus
Declension
Lēna<1>
Norwegian
Proper noun
no proper noun
no female derived from Helena and Magdalena
Polish
Pronunciation
Pl-Lena.ogg
Proper noun
pl proper noun f
pl female Lena
pl female Milena
pl female Helena
pl major river c/Russia Lena
Declension
Le n
Further reading
Portuguese
Proper noun
m
pt river r/Siberia Lena
Swedish
Etymology
Short form of sv Magdalena and sv Helena. First recorded in Sweden in 1481.
Pronunciation
sv LL-Q9027 (swe)-Moonhouse-Lena.wav
Proper noun
c
sv female
Derived terms
sv Lena Handén
References
Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn, Almqvist & Wiksell 1996, 91-21-10937-0
Statistiska centralbyrån and Sture Allén, Staffan Wåhlin, Förnamnsboken, Norstedts 1995, 9119551622: 82 984 females with the given name Lena living in Sweden on December 31st, 2010, with the frequency peak in the 1950s. Accessed on 19 June 2011.
Anagrams
sv aeln Elna alen