Mina, Mena or Meena is an ancient Egyptian name and was the name of the pharaoh that united the two kingdoms of Egypt into one. It is also a name of a saint that lived in the fourth century and there is a huge monastery under his name in the western desert of Egypt. It is popular in Egypt currently as a Christian name among the native Coptic population of Egypt, either first or last name and is usually a male name as first name.
It is also popular in some other parts of the world like Turkey, Greece and Sicily.
Mena is a given name.
It is also a surname, Mena.
The Meena tribe of India is also spelled as Mena.
The Arabic male given name Mena (Arabic: مِينَا mīnā) perhaps the Arabic "Mina" is the Persian "Mina" which bears the meaning "stained (tinted) glass mirror", artistic paint (also generic name for enamel or varnish) for porcelain and metal.
Notable people with this given name include:
Mena or MENA may refer to:
Mina may refer to:
Dina (Arabic: دينا Dīnā ; Hebrew: דִּינָה Dinah is a female given name which is sometimes an alternative spelling of the names Dinah, Dena and Deena, which holds meanings such as justified, judged, and vindicated.
Kamal is a male given name used in several languages.
Murad or Mourad is an Arabic name. It is also common in Armenian, Azerbaijani, Bengali, Turkish, Persian, and Berber as a male given name or surname and is commonly used throughout the Muslim world and Middle East.
Menas of Egypt, a martyr and wonder-worker, is one of the most well-known Coptic saints in the East and the West, due to the many miracles that are attributed to his intercession and prayers. Menas was a Coptic soldier in the Roman army martyred because he refused to recant his Christian faith. The common date of his commemoration is November 11, which occurs 13 days later on the Julian calendar.
Zaki is an Arabic male name and surname. Zaki is a Quranic name meaning pure, virtuous, or intelligent.
Sami, also Samy or Sammy, is a given name and surname of different origins and meanings, most prevalent in the Arab world and Scandinavia.
Eda is a name that has arisen independently in multiple regions.
Mona is a female, and sometimes male, given name and a surname of multiple origins.
Maina is a name with multiple independent origins.
Mina is a surname.
Mina is a given name with a variety of origins.
Zahra is a female given name and surname.
Shukri, alternatively Shoukri, Shoukry, Shokri, Choukri, Choucri, Chokri etc., is an Arabic name for males/females meaning 'thankful'. It is the masculine active participle of the Arabic verb شَكَرَ meaning 'to be thankful. The feminine form of the name is Shukriya or Shukria (شكريّة), or Şükriye in Turkish. It can be used as either a given name or surname. A similar Arabic name is Shakir.
Malak is a given name. It derives from the Semitic word for "angel".. The plural of malak ("angels") is ملائكه malaa`ikahם malakim in Hebrew, and መላዕክት mala`ikt in Ge'ez.
Saher is either a feminine given name of Arabic origin, common throughout the Persian-speaking and Muslim worlds, or unisex given name of Hebrew origin, used mainly in Israel. Though the Arabic and Hebrew names are phonologically identical and both derive from Semitic languages, they are nonetheless etymologically unrelated. In Arabic, the name means "just before dawn", coming from a common Semitic root meaning "dawn". The origin of the Hebrew name is an ancient Akkadian word for the crescent moon.
Farah, or Farrah, is a feminine given name in Arabic and Persian, among other languages. Derived from the concept of Khvarenah in Zoroastrianism, it has more recently risen in popularity in the Anglosphere due to association with the American celebrities Farrah Fawcett (1947–2009) and Farrah Abraham ; the name Farrah was among the top 1,000 names for newborn girls in the United States between 1976 and 1980, between 1987 and 1988, and again between 2010 and 2016.
Mena is a Spanish surname that originates as both a Basque and Spanish Sephardic surname.
Massoud is a given name and a surname, commonly found in the Middle East and Asia. It has a variety of spellings including Masoud, Masud, Massoude, Massudeh, Masood, Masʽud, Masud, Mashud, Messaoud, Mesut, Mesud, or Mosād. People with the name Massoud include: