tsarina

English

Alternative forms

• czarina, tzarina

Etymology

Via Italian czarina or Spanish czarina, from German Czarin, Zarin, feminine form of Czar, Zar. By surface analysis, tsar +‎ -ina.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tsaˈɹiːnə/, /zaˈɹiːnə/

Noun

tsarina (plural tsarinas, masculine tsar)

1. (historical) An empress of several Eastern European countries, especially Russia, or the wife of a tsar.
   • 2022 January 25, Katrin Bennhold, quoting Matthias Platzeck, “Where Is Germany in the Ukraine Standoff? Its Allies Wonder.”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN:

     The biggest Russian czarina was Catherine the Great, a German, who incidentally made Crimea part of Russia.

Synonyms

• tsaritsa, czaritza

Related terms

• tsar
• tsarevna
• tsarevich

Translations

empress or wife of a tsar

• Albanian: careshë (sq) f
• Arabic: قَيْصَرَة f (qayṣara)
• Armenian: ցարինա (hy) (cʻarina)
• Azerbaijani: çariça, çariçə
• Belarusian: цары́ца f (carýca)
• Bulgarian: цари́ца (bg) f (caríca)
• Catalan: tsarina (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 女沙皇 (nǚ shāhuáng)

• Czech: carevna (cs) f
• Danish: zarina c
• Dutch: tsarina (nl) f
• Esperanto: carino
• Estonian: tsaarinna
• Finnish: tsaaritar (fi), tsaarinna
• French: tsarine (fr) f, tzarine (fr) f
• German: Zarin (de) f
• Greek: τσαρίνα (el) f (tsarína), τσαρίτσα f (tsarítsa)
• Hebrew: צארית f (tsarít)
• Hungarian: cárnő (hu), cárné (hu)
• Ido: caro (io), carino (io)
• Irish: bansár m
• Italian: zarina (it) f
• Japanese: ツァリーツァ (tsarītsa)
• Kazakh: патшайым (patşaiym)
• Korean: 차리차 (charicha)
• Kyrgyz: каныша (kanışa), царица (ky) (tsaritsa)
• Latvian: cariene f
• Lithuanian: carienė f
• Macedonian: царица f (carica)
• Malay: czarina
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: tsarina m

  Nynorsk: tsarina f

• Persian:

  Iranian Persian: مَلِکِه (fa) (maleke) (queen), تِزاریتْسا (tezâritsâ)

• Polish: caryca (pl) f
• Portuguese: tsarina f, czarina (pt) f, tzarina f
• Romanian: țarină (ro) f
• Russian: цари́ца (ru) f (caríca)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ца̏рица f

  Roman: cȁrica (sh) f

• Slovak: cárovná f
• Slovene: carica f
• Spanish: zarina (es) f
• Swedish: tsarinna (sv) c, tsaritsa c
• Tagalog: sarina
• Tajik: малика (tg) (malika) (queen)
• Thai: ซารีนา
• Turkish: çariçe (tr) f
• Ukrainian: цари́ця (uk) f (carýcja)
• Uzbek: tsaritsa
• Vietnamese: nữ sa hoàng, nữ Nga hoàng (Russian tsarina)
• Volapük: (♂♀) zar (vo), (♀) jizar
• Yiddish: צאַריצע f (tsaritse), צאַרינע f (tsarine)

Further reading

• “tsarina”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “tsarina, tzarina, czarina, czaritza, czaritsa”, in Google Books Ngram Viewer.

Anagrams

• Sartain, Sinatra, Taranis, Trainas, antiars, artisan, astrain, sartain, tasiRNA, tasirna, tsarian

Dutch

Etymology

Probably from Italian or Spanish, cf. the English etymology. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌtsaːˈri.naː/

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• Hyphenation: tsa‧ri‧na
• Rhymes: -inaː

Noun

tsarina f (plural tsarina's, no diminutive, masculine tsaar)

1. tsarina (female tsar/empress, wife of a tsar)

   Synonym: tsarin

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From German Zarin, a feminine form of Zar (“Tsar”).

Noun

tsarina m (definite singular tsarinaen, indefinite plural tsarinaer, definite plural tsarinaene)

1. tsarina

   Synonym: tsaritsa

References

• “tsarina” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From German Zarin, a feminine form of Zar (“Tsar”).

Noun

tsarina f (definite singular tsarinaa, indefinite plural tsarinaer, definite plural tsarinaene)

1. tsarina

   Synonym: tsaritsa

References

• “tsarina” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• tzarina

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃi.zaˈɾĩ.nɐ/, /tsaˈɾĩ.nɐ/, /zaˈɾĩ.nɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃi.zaˈɾĩ.nɐ/, /tsaˈɾĩ.nɐ/, /zaˈɾĩ.nɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃi.zaˈɾi.na/, /tsaˈɾi.na/, /zaˈɾi.na/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /tsɐˈɾi.nɐ/, /zɐˈɾi.nɐ/

• Hyphenation: tsa‧ri‧na

Noun

tsarina f (plural tsarinas, masculine tsar, masculine plural tsares)

1. alternative form of czarina

Further reading

• “tsarina”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025