Ana
English edit
Etymology 1 edit
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.
Proper noun edit
Ana
- A female given name, equivalent to English Anna or Hannah.
- A river in Oregon, United States.
Etymology 2 edit
Proper noun edit
Ana
- 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...
Etymology 3 edit
Proper noun edit
Ana
- An ethnicity within the Yoruba people, mostly living in Benin and Togo in West Africa.
- The language within the Niger-Congo family spoken by the Ana people.
- Synonym: Ifè
Noun edit
Ana pl (plural only)
Anagrams edit
Portuguese edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Old Galician-Portuguese Ana, from Latin Anna, from Ancient Greek Ἄννα (Ánna), from Hebrew חַנָּה. Doublet of Ane and Hanna.
Pronunciation edit
Proper noun edit
Ana f (plural Anas)
- Ana, a female given name, equivalent to English Ann, Anna, or Anne
Romanian edit
Pronunciation edit
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Proper noun edit
Ana f (genitive/dative Anei)
- Ana, a female given name, equivalent to English Ann, Anna or Anne
Serbo-Croatian edit
Pronunciation edit
Proper noun edit
Ȁna or Ána f (Cyrillic spelling А̏на or А́на)
- Ana, a female given name, equivalent to English Ann, Anna, or Anne
References edit
- “Ana” in Hrvatski jezični portal
Slovene edit
Pronunciation edit
Proper noun edit
Ána f
- Ana, a female given name, equivalent to English Ann, Anne, or Anna
Inflection edit
Feminine, a-stem | ||
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nominative | Ána | |
genitive | Áne | |
singular | ||
nominative (imenovȃlnik) |
Ána | |
genitive (rodȋlnik) |
— | |
dative (dajȃlnik) |
— | |
accusative (tožȋlnik) |
— | |
locative (mẹ̑stnik) |
Áni | |
instrumental (orọ̑dnik) |
Áno |
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin Anna, from Ancient Greek Ἄννα (Ánna), from Hebrew חַנָּה.
Pronunciation edit
Proper noun edit
Ana f
- 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.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- Hannah (Biblical figure)
- Anna (Biblical prophetess)