Svetlana

See also: Světlana

English

Etymology

Transliteration of Russian Светла́на (Svetlána), from свет (svet, “light”). Made up by Alexander Vostokov in 1802, later borrowed into English and other languages.

Proper noun

Svetlana

1. A female given name, common in Slavic nations in which Orthodox Christianity is established.

Related terms

• Lana
• Sveta

Translations

female given name

• Armenian: Սվետլանա (Svetlana)
• Belarusian: Святла́на f (Svjatlána), Сьвятла́на f (Sʹvjatlána) (Taraškievica)
• Bulgarian: Светла́на f (Svetlána)
• Czech: Světlana (cs) f
• Georgian: სვეტლანა (sveṭlana)
• German: Swetlana f
• Greek: Σβετλάνα (el) f (Svetlána)
• Macedonian: Светлана (mk) f (Svetlana)
• Polish: Świetlana (pl) f, Swietłana f
• Russian: Светла́на (ru) (Svetlána)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Светлана f, Свијетлана f

  Roman: Svetlana f, Svijetlana f

• Slovak: Svetlana f
• Slovene: Svetlana f
• Ukrainian: Світлана f (Svitlana)

Further reading

• Svetlana on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• slave ant

Azerbaijani

Proper noun

Svetlana

1. A transliteration of the Russian female given name Светла́на (Svetlána).

Latvian

Etymology

First recorded as a given name of Latvians in 1925. From Russian Светла́на (Svetlána).

Proper noun

Svetlana f

1. A transliteration of the Russian female given name Светла́на (Svetlána).

References

• Klāvs Siliņš: Latviešu personvārdu vārdnīca. Riga "Zinātne" 1990, →ISBN
• [1] Population Register of Latvia: Svetlana was the only given name of 20 467 persons in Latvia on May 21st 2010, including Russian speakers.

Slovak

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsvɛtɫana/

Proper noun

Svetlana f (genitive singular Svetlany, nominative plural Svetlany, declension pattern of žena)

1. a female given name

Declension

Declension of Svetlana

	singular	plural
nominative	Svetlana	Svetlany
genitive	Svetlany	Svetlán
dative	Svetlane	Svetlanám
accusative	Svetlanu	Svetlany
locative	Svetlane	Svetlanách
instrumental	Svetlanou	Svetlanami

Further reading

• “Svetlana”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024