Raina

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Raina can refer to several things:

• Raina,
• Raina A. Mercedes Echerer, Austrian actress and politician
• Raina Kabaivanska, Bulgarian opera singer
• Raina Kniaginia, Bulgarian teacher and revolutionary
• Raina Telgemeier, American cartoonist
• Suresh Raina, Indian cricketer
• Raina, in Hindi, means 'night'.
• Raina, in Gurjati, means 'beautiful'.
• The female name Raina \ra(i)-na\ is pronounced RAY-nah. Variant of Regina (Latin) or Reine (French), meaning "queen".

[edit] Raina

Raina is the surname prevalent and used in the state of Kashmir in India by Kashmiri Pandits. Also, Kashmiri Muslims have Raina surname, because they were originally Kashmiri Pandits. Raina, as surname, is also used by lot of other sects in India like Punjabis, Gujratis, Marathis.

Raina is a lupa in Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake series.

[edit] Geography

• Reineh (sometimes transliterated as Raina), an Arab town in Israel
• Raina, Bardhaman, a town in West Bengal, India

[edit] See also

• Reina

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