Sina

[ see-nuh ]

noun

1. a female given name.

Example Sentences

“Once our noses had become our common tongue, I became as the great Ibn Sina, a cataloguer of scents and their meanings. A flick of coriander with a punctuation of lemon oil meant, Peace be upon your hairless scalp, O troll king, protector of the underland countries, and ruler of their sunless seas. Oddly, mugwort just meant, mugwort.”

From Literature

He bats it away and continues, “As though Samir, the Seller of Dreams, who sold the scrolls of the Gospel of Rostam to the Crusaders; who once turned to the Doge of Venice and said, ‘You know, if you keep it this way, you could sell boat rides to the tourists’; Samir, the personal supplier to Ibn Sina and the child emperor of the Walled City—him.

From Literature

Last year, 570,000 vehicles were imported through Baltimore, according to Sina Golara, an assistant professor of supply chain management at Georgia State University.

From New York Times

“They are scared of direct confrontation with the U.S., they know that if Americans are killed again it would mean war,” said Sina Azodi, a lecturer at George Washington University and an expert on Iran’s national security.

From New York Times

Posts with the hashtag #TexasDeclaresAStateOfWar have been viewed and shared thousands of times on the popular social network Sina Weibo.

From BBC