name
Guarina
gwah-REE-nah
ɡwɑˈriːnɑListen
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Syllable breakdown
Guarina
Name meaning and origin
- Origin
- Taino (Caribbean)
- Meaning
- a Taino feminine name derived from the root gua meaning land or place and connected to the spiritual geography of the island world; the Taino of Hispaniola, Cuba, and Puerto Rico understood their islands as living beings inhabited by ancestor spirits called zemis, and feminine names evoking the land honoured the sacred relationship between women, fertility, and the Caribbean islands that were understood as the body of the earth mother
- Gender
- female
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