name
Nasrin
nas-REEN
nɑːsˈriːnListen
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Syllable breakdown
Nasrin
Name meaning and origin
- Origin
- Pashto / Persian (Afghanistan, Pakistan)
- Meaning
- a Persian and Pashto feminine name meaning wild rose or dog rose — specifically the fragrant wild rosa canina that grows on the slopes of the Zagros and Hindu Kush mountains — from Persian nasrin (نسرین), the name for this pale-pink climbing wild rose; in Persian poetry the nasrin holds a place alongside the garden rose (gul) as a symbol of delicate, wild beauty and fragrant femininity; while the garden rose is the cultivated, social rose of the city, the nasrin is the free, wild rose of the hillside and mountain, making it a name associated with natural freedom and unaffected beauty; Nasrin is common across Persian-speaking Afghanistan (Dari) and among Pashto speakers who draw on the shared Persian poetic heritage; notable bearers include Nasrin Sotoudeh, the Iranian human rights lawyer and Nobel Peace Prize nominee
- Gender
- female
- Also spelled
- Nesrin, Nazreen, Nasreen
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