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Ariana is a feminine Persian name and stands for the land of Aryans. Arianna and Ariane are the two most common variations. It is a very popular name in Iran (Persia) and Italy.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Ariana )〕 ==Etymology== The name ''Ariana'' has the several possible following origins. Ariana, the Latinized form of (Greek: ἡ 'Αρειανή/Arianē), was also a general geographical term used by some Greek and Roman authors of ancient period for a district of wide extent in Central Asia,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography )〕 comprising the eastern part of the Persian empire, now all of Afghanistan and a part of Iran and southeast of Tajikistan .〔The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2008〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary,A , Argynnus , Ărĭāna )〕 The name of Iran (Persia) originates from Persian word Aryānā (Ariana) meaning "The Land of the Aryans".〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Iran )〕 The name ''Arianna'' is also the Latinized form of the name Ariadne ((ギリシア語:Ἀριάδνη); (ラテン語:Ariadna); "most holy", Cretan Greek ''αρι'' () "most" and ''αδνος'' () "holy"), the daughter of Minos, King of Crete,〔Homer, ''Odyssey'' 11.320, Hesiod, ''Theogony'' 947, and later authors.〕 and his queen Pasiphaë, daughter of Helios, the Sun-titan,〔Pasiphaë is mentioned as Ariadne's mother in ''Bibliotheke'' 3.1.2 (Pasiphaë, daughter of the Sun), in Apollonius' ''Argonautica'' iii.997, and in Hyginus ''Fabulae'', 224.〕 from Greek mythology. The name can also derive from the Welsh word 'arian', meaning silver. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ariana (name)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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