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Yana

//ˈjɑː.nə// name, noun

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A female given name from the Slavic languages. A romanization of the Bulgarian or Russian or Ukrainian name Я́на (Jána).
  2. 2
    The now extinct language of the Yana people, best known for a systematic differentiation between men's and women's speech.
  3. 3
    A river in Sakha (Yakutia), Russia that rises near Verkhoyansk and flows into the Yana Bay of the Laptev Sea.
Noun
  1. 1
    A member of a North American Indian people who once resided in the eastern portion of the upper Sacramento River valley in California.
  2. 2
    Any of the vehicles of Buddhist or Tantric practice.

    "The Tibetan word for yana is thekpa, which means "that which lifts you up." Anything that lifts you up and takes you to your destination is a yana."

  3. 3
    the language spoken by the Yana wordnet
  4. 4
    a member of an extinct North American Indian people who lived in northern California, their lands bordering the Yuba and Feather rivers wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

Cognate to English Jane, ultimately from Hebrew, feminine form of Ioannes ( =John).

Etymology 2

From Yana yana (“person, people”).

Etymology 3

From Yana yana (“person, people”).

Etymology 4

Transliteration of Sanskrit यान (yāna, “vehicle”).

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