tsarina
/zɑːˈriːnə
/ /tsɑːˈriːnə/(also czarina or tzarina)
noun
An empress of Russia before 1917: the Germanic origins of the tsarina [as title]: a descendant of Tsarina Alexandria...
- Whenever political theorists looked for a contemporary example of such a government, their eyes fell upon either the Ottoman sultans or the Russian tsars and tsarinas.
- The authors of the subsequent essays then use these factors, to varying degrees, to discuss a particular period of development of the Russian military forces under the tsars (and tsarinas).
- Although the rulers of the empire were formally called emperors, they were still popularly referred to as tsars or tsarinas.
Origin
Via Italian and Spanish from German Czarin, Zarin, feminine of Czar, Zar.