Svetlana

See also: Světlana

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Russian Светла́на (Svetlána), from свет (svet, “light”).

Proper noun

Svetlana

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

Related terms

• Lana
• Sveta

Further reading

• Svetlana on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• slave ant

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Azerbaijani

Proper noun

Svetlana

1. a female given name

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Latvian

Etymology

First recorded as a given name of Latvians in 1925. From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] 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.

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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