Shaina
[ˈʃeɪnə]Meaning
shaina is an alternate transcription of the Yiddish name Shayna, meaning "beautiful" or "lovely".
Background Story
Shaina is an alternate transcription of the Yiddish feminine name Shayna, from the Yiddish word sheyn, meaning "beautiful" or "lovely", cognate with modern German schön. The name's Hebrew equivalent is Yaffa or Yafit. In the years following the Holocaust, Shayna and its Arabic cognate Jamila were often Hebraicized to Yaffa on immigration to Israel, or changed outside Israel as a distancing from diasporic heritage.
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