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Anna

//ˈænə// name, noun

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A female given name from Latin.

    "Every lover the years disclose / Is of a beautiful name made free. / One befriends, and all others are foes. / Anna's the name of names for me."

  2. 2
    Alternative spelling of Anah, a city in Anbar, Iraq. alt-of, alternative, obsolete
  3. 3
    A prophetess in the New Testament.

    "And there was one Anna, a prophetess, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Aser: she was of great age, and had lived with an husband seven years from her virginity;"

  4. 4
    A city in Illinois.
  5. 5
    A city in Texas.
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  1. 6
    A town in Voronezh Oblast, Russia.
  2. 7
    A village in Järva, Estonia.
  3. 8
    A village in Fars Province, Iran.
  4. 9
    A village in Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Province, Iran.
  5. 10
    A village in Ohio; after Anna Thirkield, an early settler.
  6. 11
    A municipality of the Valencian Community, Spain.
Noun
  1. 1
    A former Indian coin. historical
  2. 2
    a former copper coin of Pakistan and India wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Hindi अन्न (ann, “food, grain”), आना (ānā), from Sanskrit अन्न (anna).

Etymology 2

From Late Latin Anna both directly and via numerous other languages, chiefly in reference to St Anne the apocryphal mother of Mary mother of Jesus but appearing in the Vulgate in reference to Anne the Prophetess, from Koine Greek Ἄννα (Ánna) in the New Testament, from Hebrew חַנָּה (Ḥannâ, “Hannah”), from חַנָּה (ḥannâ, “grace, gracious, graced with child”). As a city in Illinois, named for Anna Davie, wife of one of the initial settlers. Doublet of Ann, Anne, Ana, and Hannah.

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