Svetlana

Svetlana () is a common Orthodox Slavic feminine given name, deriving from the East and South Slavic root svet (), meaning "light", "shining", "luminescent", "pure", "blessed", or "holy", depending upon context similar if not the same as the word Shweta in Sanskrit.

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Name.name: Svetlana
Name.image: St Photina.jpg
Name.image_size: 180px
Name.caption: Svetlana is often used in reference to the Samaritan woman at the well in the Biblical Gospel of John. It is the Russian version of the Greek saint name Photini, meaning "enlightened".
Name.gender: female (feminine)
Name.meaning: "light", "pure"
Name.region: Russian, Serbian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Slavic Macedonian, Ukrainian, Lithuanian, Circassian
Name.nickname: Sveta, Lana, Ceca, Svetla, Svetka, Svetochka, Svetlanka, Svetulya, Svetik, Svetti
Name.origin: Russia
Name.related names: Svitlana, Sviatlana, Svjetlana, Świetlana

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Instance of: female given name

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transliteration or transcription: Светлана
different from: Svetlana
native label: Svetlana
language of work or name: Slovene
writing system: Latin script
Soundex: S134
Cologne phonetics: 83256
Caverphone: SFTLN1
name day: September 28
Commons category: Svetlana (given name)

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Particularly unique among similar common Russian names, this one is not of ancient Slavic origin but was coined by Alexander Vostokov in 1802 and popularized by Vasily Zhukovsky in his eponymous ballad "Svetlana", the latter first published in 1813. The name is also used in Ukraine, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Slovakia, North Macedonia, and Serbia, with a number of occurrences in non-Slavic countries. thumb|Popularity of name Svetlana. In the Russian Orthodox Church Svetlana is used as a Russian translation of Photina (derived from phos (, "light")), a name sometimes ascribed to the Samaritan woman at Jacob's well (the Bible, John 4).

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