Ana

The English word “Ana” has 3 meanings listed here.

proper noun

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.

noun

A member of the Ana people.

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”),…

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