Arina
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Origins

As a Slavic
Slavic languages
The Slavic languages , a group of closely related languages of the Slavic peoples and a subgroup of Indo-European languages, have speakers in most of Eastern Europe, in much of the Balkans, in parts of Central Europe, and in the northern part of Asia.-Branches:Scholars traditionally divide Slavic...

 name, Арина, it is a variant of Irina
Irina
Irina is a Slavic feminine given name, meaning peace .Variant forms include Iryna and Arina.-People named Irina:*Irina Antonenko, Miss Russia 2010*Irina Baskakova, Soviet track and field sprinter...

, meaning peace.

It is also a Japanese name
Japanese name
in modern times usually consist of a family name , followed by a given name. "Middle names" are not generally used.Japanese names are usually written in kanji, which are characters of usually Chinese origin in Japanese pronunciation...

 and a Kurdish name.

People with this given name

  • Arina Martinova
    Arina Martinova
    Arina Valeryevna Martinova is a Russian figure skater. She is the 2007 Russian junior national champion. She won the silver medal at the 2006 Nebelhorn Trophy.-Competitive highlights:* WD = Withdrawn-External links:*...

     (born 1990), Russian figure skater
  • Arina Rodionova
    Arina Rodionova
    Arina Rodionova is a Russian tennis player. The sister of Russian-born Australian tennis player Anastasia Rodionova, she won 2007 Australian Open in girls' doubles, partnering with Evgeniya Rodina. In 2010, Rodionova reached her first WTA Tour doubles final partnering with her sister, at 2010...

     (born 1989), Russian tennis player
  • Arina Tanemura
    Arina Tanemura
    is a Japanese manga artist who mainly does shōjo manga. Her debut work was a one-shot work titled , which was later reprinted in her anthology work Short-Tempered Melancholic. Tanemura gained fame with the 1997 publication of I.O.N, a high school romance with a supernatural twist...

     (born 1978), Japanese manga artist
  • Arina Ushakova
    Arina Ushakova
    Arina Andreyevna Ushakova is a Russian retired pair skater. With former partner Sergei Karev, she is the 2008 Russian bronze medalist.- Career :Ushakova teamed up with Alexander Popov in 2000, with whom she had a lot of success at the junior level...

    (born 1989), Russian pair skater
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