Faina

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Kind of sounds like the word "nice" in Polish, fajna. Made me like the name more.
― cypher  8/6/2024
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Means 'nice' in Lithuanian (pron. FY-na).
― liyahaa  11/20/2021
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Also Latvian.
― Shaymin  3/2/2019
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Russian sources state that this name is derived from Greek φαεινή (phaeine) meaning "radiant, brilliant", so the etymological connection with Phaenna seems about right.- http://kurufin.ru/html/Translate/Faina.html (in Russian)
- https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A4%D0%B0%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B0 (in Russian)
- http://heraldry.sca.org/names/paul/e-f.html (in English; see the entry for Faina).
― Lucille  11/16/2016
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"Fah-eena" is what I would think would be the right way to pronounce it. If saying it quickly, it would sound a little like "Feye-na" ("feye" as in "eye")
― Morgan1599  7/12/2016
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Faina Ranevskaya was a Russian actress and comedian.
― mymymetrocard  10/28/2015
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I liked this name when I thought it was pronounced fay-NA. Now that I know the "true" way to pronounce it... not so much.
― Book_Reader22  1/26/2011
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It is pronounced: " Fi-ee-na "
There is no letter "H" as in "-hee-" mentioned before, that would be wrong. They have troubled with the pronunciation of my name Faina all my life, Americans tend to say Fina as in Fine - which is also wrong, so I changed it to Faena, but they still can't get it right, sometimes they say Fiona.
― faena  9/29/2007
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I think that this is a very pretty name, as it sounds mysterious though kind.
― author  8/15/2005
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