Ana

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A female given name, equivalent to English Anna or Hannah.

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

Etymology

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 (Ḥannâ, “Hannah”), from חַנָּה (ḥannâ, “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.

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Variant of AnahAlternative spelling of Anah, a city in Anbar, Iraq.
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...

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

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A member of the Ana people.

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Ana · A female given name, equivalent to English Anna or Hannah.

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