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Lina is a common female given name in Sweden, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, especially among those born after 1980.〔(frequency of given name Lina in Germany (chart) ) beliebte-vornamen.de Accessed: August 14, 2012〕 In 2011 it was one of the most popular female given names in Germany.〔(1000 most popular given names in 2011 (list) with Lina ranked 7th ) beliebte-vornamen.de Accessed: August 14, 2012〕 It was initially used as a shortened form of names such as Karolina, Nikolina, Adelina, Evelina and Paulina. Since "-lina" is a diminutive suffix, it has no meaning of its own in Swedish. The Danish and Norwegian form is "Line". Lina is also a short form of any female name ending in "-lina", such as Angelina, Evangelina, Carolina, Melina. Lina is the female form of Linas, a common given name among people of Lithuanian descent. It can also be construed as a rare feminine form of Linus. In the Russian language, Lina () is a diminutive form of the female name Avelina.〔Petrovsky, p. 33〕 In Arabic "Lina" (لينة) refers to a small, young palm tree. It means "tender" or "tenderness". In Greek it refers to the olive crown used for the hero. The name Lina also has roots in France and China. In Chinese, "Li" (丽) means "pretty" and "Na" (娜) means "elegant". ==People== *Lina (singer), neo-soul recording artist who was born in Denver, Colorado *Lina Cavalieri (1874–1944), Italian operatic soprano *Lina Heydrich (1911–1985), wife of SS-Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich *Lina Krasnoroutskaya (born 1984), Russian former tennis player *Lina Lee, South Korean singer who is a member of The Grace *Lina Medina (born 1933), the youngest confirmed mother in medical history *Lina Morgenstern (born 1830), German writer, educator, feminist and pacifist *Lina Radke (born 1903), German runner and the first Olympic champion in the 800 m for women *Lina Tsaldari (1887–1981), Greek politician *Lina Bo Bardi (1914–1992), Brazilian Modernist Architect born in Italy. *Lina Wertmüller (born 1926), Italian film director *Lina Leandersson (born 1995), Swedish actress *Lina Posada (born 1988), Colombian model and designer *Wang Lina (disambiguation) *Li Na (disambiguation) 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「Lina」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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