What is "sirin"

Şirin is a Turkish form of the name Sherine. Notable people with the name include:

Sirin is a Russian mythological bird. Sirin may also refer to:

• Sirin, Iran, a village in Kermanshah Province, Iran
• Sirin, Baysan, a Palestinian village depopulated in 1948
• Sirin (Islamic history), one of Muhammad's slaves
• Şirin, a Turkish name
• Air Sirin, a Ukraine-based cargo airline
• Ephrem the Syrian, an ancient Syrian saint known as Sirin in Russia
• V. Sirin, the pen name of Vladimir Nabokov during his exile in Berlin
• Vaniel Sirin (born 1989), Haitian football player

Sîrîn bint Sham'ûn was an Egyptian Coptic Christian . She and her sister Maria al-Qibtiyya were sent to the Islamic prophet Muhammad as gifts from the Sassanid official Muqawqis in 628. Ibn Ishaq and Sirin was married with the poet Hassan ibn Thabit. Hassan and Sirin had a son, 'Abd al-Rahman ibn Hassan.