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tsarina

noun · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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  • /tsaˈɹiːnə/
  • /zaˈɹiːnə/
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1

noun

Meaning 1

An empress of several Eastern European countries, especially Russia, or the wife of a tsar.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: historical

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

the wife or widow of a czar

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: czarina, tzarina, czaritza, tsaritsa

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: female aristocrat

History

Etymology

Via Italian czarina or Spanish czarina, from German Czarin, Zarin, feminine form of Czar, Zar. By surface analysis, tsar + -ina.

Across languages

Translations

67 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Albanian: careshë — empress or wife of a tsar
  • Arabic: قَيْصَرَة (qayṣara) — empress or wife of a tsar
  • Armenian: ցարինա (cʻarina) — empress or wife of a tsar
  • Azerbaijani: çariça — empress or wife of a tsar
  • Azerbaijani: çariçə — empress or wife of a tsar
  • Belarusian: цары́ца (carýca) — empress or wife of a tsar
  • Bulgarian: цари́ца (caríca) — empress or wife of a tsar
  • Catalan: tsarina — empress or wife of a tsar
  • Chinese Mandarin: 女沙皇 (nǚ shāhuáng) — empress or wife of a tsar
  • Czech: carevna — empress or wife of a tsar
  • Danish: zarina — empress or wife of a tsar
  • Dutch: tsarina — empress or wife of a tsar
  • Esperanto: carino — empress or wife of a tsar
  • Estonian: tsaarinna — empress or wife of a tsar
  • Finnish: tsaaritar — empress or wife of a tsar
  • Finnish: tsaarinna — empress or wife of a tsar
  • French: tsarine — empress or wife of a tsar
  • French: tzarine — empress or wife of a tsar
  • German: Zarin — empress or wife of a tsar
  • Greek: τσαρίνα (tsarína) — empress or wife of a tsar
  • Greek: τσαρίτσα (tsarítsa) — empress or wife of a tsar
  • Hebrew: צארית (tsarít) — empress or wife of a tsar
  • Hungarian: cárnő — empress or wife of a tsar
  • Hungarian: cárné — empress or wife of a tsar
  • Ido: caro — empress or wife of a tsar
  • Ido: carino — empress or wife of a tsar
  • Irish: bansár — empress or wife of a tsar
  • Italian: zarina — empress or wife of a tsar
  • Japanese: ツァリーツァ (tsarītsa) — empress or wife of a tsar
  • Kazakh: патшайым (patşaiym) — empress or wife of a tsar
  • Korean: 차리차 (charicha) — empress or wife of a tsar
  • Kyrgyz: каныша (kanışa) — empress or wife of a tsar
  • Kyrgyz: царица (tsaritsa) — empress or wife of a tsar
  • Latvian: cariene — empress or wife of a tsar
  • Lithuanian: carienė — empress or wife of a tsar
  • Macedonian: царица (carica) — empress or wife of a tsar
  • Malay: czarina — empress or wife of a tsar
  • Norwegian Bokmål: tsarina — empress or wife of a tsar
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: tsarina — empress or wife of a tsar
  • Iranian Persian: مَلِکِه (maleke) — empress or wife of a tsar
  • Iranian Persian: تِزاریتْسا (tezâritsâ) — empress or wife of a tsar
  • Polish: caryca — empress or wife of a tsar
  • Polish: carowa — empress or wife of a tsar
  • Portuguese: tsarina — empress or wife of a tsar
  • Portuguese: czarina — empress or wife of a tsar
  • Portuguese: tzarina — empress or wife of a tsar
  • Romanian: țarină — empress or wife of a tsar
  • Russian: цари́ца (caríca) — empress or wife of a tsar
  • Serbo-Croatian: ца̏рица — empress or wife of a tsar
  • Serbo-Croatian: cȁrica — empress or wife of a tsar
  • Slovak: cárovná — empress or wife of a tsar
  • Slovene: carica — empress or wife of a tsar
  • Spanish: zarina — empress or wife of a tsar
  • Swedish: tsarinna — empress or wife of a tsar
  • Swedish: tsaritsa — empress or wife of a tsar
  • Tagalog: sarina — empress or wife of a tsar
  • Tajik: малика (malika) — empress or wife of a tsar
  • Thai: ซารีนา — empress or wife of a tsar
  • Turkish: çariçe — empress or wife of a tsar
  • Ukrainian: цари́ця (carýcja) — empress or wife of a tsar
  • Uzbek: tsaritsa — empress or wife of a tsar
  • Vietnamese: nữ sa hoàng — empress or wife of a tsar
  • Vietnamese: nữ Nga hoàng — empress or wife of a tsar
  • Volapük: zar — empress or wife of a tsar
  • Volapük: jizar — empress or wife of a tsar
  • Yiddish: צאַריצע (tsaritse) — empress or wife of a tsar
  • Yiddish: צאַרינע (tsarine) — empress or wife of a tsar