Date
Name Balladyna
Gender Feminine
Usage Polish (Rare), Theatre
Pronounced Pron. bal-la-DI-nah (Polish)
Theme music
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Meaning & History
Used by the Polish writer Juliusz Słowacki for the heroine of his tragic play Balladyna (1834), about a fictional Slavic queen who is corrupted by her rise to power. Słowacki based the name on the Polish word ballada meaning "ballad".