The boy's and girl's name Sabina is pronounced sa-BEE-nah. It is of Latin origin, and its meaning is "Sabine." The Sabines were a tribe living in central Italy during the time when Romulus and Remus established the city of Rome. Romulus arranged mass kidnapping of the Sabine women so as to provide wives for the citizens of Rome. Also a saint's name.
Sabina has 11 variant forms: Bina, Byna, Sabine, Sabinna, Sabiny, Sabyna, Sahbina, Savina, Savine, Sebina and Sebinah.
SABINA
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Romanian, Polish, Czech, Slovene, Russian
Other Scripts: Сабина (Russian)
Pronounced: sah-BEE-nah (Italian, Spanish, Polish) [key]
Feminine form of Sabinus, a Roman cognomen meaning "Sabine woman" in Latin. The Sabines were an ancient people who lived in central Italy, their lands eventually taken over by the Romans after several wars. According to legend, the Romans abducted several Sabine women during a raid. When the men came to rescue them, the women were able to make peace between the two groups.
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SABINA
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Romanian, Polish, Czech, Slovene, Russian
Other Scripts: Сабина (Russian)
Pronounced: sah-BEE-nah (Italian, Spanish, Polish) [key]
"Feminine form of Sabinus, a Roman cognomen meaning "Sabine woman" in Latin. The Sabines were an ancient people who lived in central Italy, their lands eventually taken over by the Romans after several wars. According to legend, the Romans abducted several Sabine women during a raid. When the men came to rescue them, the women were able to make peace between the two groups."
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The tribe of the Sabines (Latin Sabini) was an Italic tribe of ancient Italy. Their language belonged to the Sabellic subgroup of Italic languages and was akin to Oscan and Umbrian.
Their original territory, straddling the modern regions of Lazio, Umbria, and Abruzzi, was known as Sabinium in Latin. To this day, it bears the ancient tribe's name and is known as Sabina in Italian.
Within the modern region of Lazio (or Latium), Sabina constitutes a sub-region, situated North-East of Rome, around Rieti.
The ancient Sabines were in Latium before Rome was founded. The legend says that Romans abducted Sabine women to populate the newly built town, resulting in conflict ended only by the women throwing themselves and their children between the armies of their fathers and their husbands. The kidnapping (see The Rape of the Sabine Women) is a common motif in art; the women's ending the war is less frequent but still reappearing motif.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabine
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the teenage witch
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