Ana

 

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From various languages including Spanish, Portuguese, Romanian, Bulgarian, Serbo-Croatian, Slovene, and Macedonian, all derived—sometimes via Late Latin Anna in the Vulgate—from Koine Greek Ἄννα (Ánna, “Anna”), chiefly in reference to St Anne the apocryphal mother of Mary mother of Jesus but appearing in the New Testament in reference to Anna the Prophetess, from Hebrew חַנָּה (Ḥanâ, “Hannah”), from חַנָּה (ḥanâ, “grace, gracious, graced with child”). As an Oregonian river, named for Ana Byars, daughter of the surveyor W.H. Byars. Doublet of Ann, Anne, Anna, and Hannah.

Ana

1. A female given name, equivalent to English Anna or Hannah.
2. A river in Oregon, United States.

Ana

1. Alternative spelling of Anah, a city in Anbar, Iraq.
   • 2012, David Kennedy et al., Rome's Desert Frontier from the Air, page 114:

     Ana Island and a strip of flat land below the steep banks bordering the Euphrates, some 350 km (220 miles) due east of Palmyra, were occupied for millennia by the buildings of a succession of important settlements...

Ana

1. An ethnicity within the Yoruba people, mostly living in Benin and Togo in West Africa.
2. The language within the Niger-Congo family spoken by the Ana people.

   Synonym: Ifè

Ana pl (plural only)

1. A member of the Ana people.

• A.A.N., Aan, naa

• Anna

From Old Galician-Portuguese Ana, from Latin Anna, from Ancient Greek Ἄννα (Ánna), from Hebrew חַנָּה. Doublet of Ane and Hanna.

• Rhymes: (Portugal) -ɐnɐ, (Brazil) -ɐ̃nɐ
• Hyphenation: A‧na

Ana f (plural Anas)

1. Ana, a female given name, equivalent to English Ann, Anna, or Anne

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Ana f (genitive/dative Anei)

1. Ana, a female given name, equivalent to English Ann, Anna or Anne

• (Ȁna): IPA^(key): /âna/
• (Ána): IPA^(key): /ǎːna/
• Hyphenation: A‧na

Ȁna or Ána f (Cyrillic spelling А̏на or А́на)

1. Ana, a female given name, equivalent to English Ann, Anna, or Anne

• “Ana”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024
• “Ana”, in Portal suvremenih hrvatskih osobnih imena [Portal of contemporary Croatian personal names] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2018–2024

 

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Ana

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• IPA^(key): /àːna/

Ána f

1. Ana, a female given name, equivalent to English Ann, Anne, or Anna

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• “Ana”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene), 2014–2024

Borrowed from Latin Anna, from Ancient Greek Ἄννα (Ánna), from Hebrew חַנָּה.

• IPA^(key): /ˈana/ [ˈa.na]
• Rhymes: -ana
• Syllabification: A‧na

Ana f

1. Ana, a female given name from Latin [in turn from Ancient Greek, in turn from Hebrew], equivalent to English Ann, Anna, Anne, or Hannah
   • 2004, Sebastián Dates, “Ana”, in Lo ingenuos que somos, page 37:

     Ana era la prima de Celina y los chicos de mi clase que la conocían decían que era un bombón y no tenía novio.

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2. Hannah (Biblical figure)
3. Anna (Biblical prophetess)