Okay,
So in my quest to add names to my baby girl list I have come across the name [name]Sabine[/name] and I think I really like it, but also think I might be pronouncing it wrong.
In my head it sounds like [name]Say[/name]-bean (excuse my spelling of pronunciation). But, it occurred to me that it could be pronounced Sa (a as in “at”) bean.
Or am I way off entirely? I am not good with writing out pronunciations…
Thanks for any and all help!
I’ve heard it pronounced several ways, the most popular being “Suh-bean”.
I think depending on your area/culture that either could work or be acceptable. Personally, I say it as the second option but wouldn’t think the first was odd if that’s what I was told.
I think it’s Suh-bean, sort of like the name [name]Sabrina[/name].
In English I say suh-BEEN, and in French I say sa-BEEN (very slight difference… the English pronunciation is a little more slurry/ lazy, lol)
But [name]Sabine[/name] is also [name]German[/name] and in that case is pronounced za-[name]BEE[/name]-nə (and ‘rounded off’ to English would be suh-[name]BEE[/name]-na, like [name]Sabrina[/name] with no R)
in French I say sa-BEEN, google says the way to pronounce it is sah BEEN. Same thing
[name]Lucia[/name]'s not wrong - English unstressed vowels are physically lax - it’s called a “neutral vowel” in linguistics.
I would say suh BEAN in English or Zah [name]BEE[/name] nah in [name]German[/name].
I don’t know if you looked them up on forvo.com but here are the ways I know them to be prn, it’s a beautiful name and I think you should go for it!
French and English - sah bean
[name]German[/name]- Zah been eh (ah)
Here is a link to many different prn’s from native speakers:Pronunciations for sabine in English (from Sabine Baring-Gould to Wallace Clement Sabine was an American physicist who founded the field of architectural acoustics.)
This is confusing to me, because if we’re talking about the Italic tribe the Sabines (you may have heard the story of the rape of the Sabines?) I’ve only ever heard it pronounced say-bine.
Yeah…I say Suh-bean too.
~[name]Jasmine[/name]
I think it just has a different prn referring to the ethnic group vs the women’s first name. Not so strange. Think about sow (to spread seed) and sow (the female pig), row (the opposite of a column) and row (a British word for a fight). Polish (the people) and polish (what you do to silver).
Also [name]Say[/name]-bine is an Anglicism, the families referred to were the Sabini (sah bee nee). So the first name form got less Anglicized than the family name.