Rana
name
name ·2 syllables ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Proper Noun
- 1 A surname. countable, uncountable
- 2 A large municipality in Nordland county, Norway. See Rana, Norway on Wikipedia.Wikipedia countable, uncountable
Synonyms
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Various origins of surname: * Borrowed from Hindi राणा (rāṇā), a Rajput surname which probably is a back-formation from रानी (rānī, “queen”). * Borrowed from Italian and Spanish Rana, a nickname for someone with bulging eyes or a croaky voice, from rana (“frog”). * Borrowed from Galician Raña, a habitational surname from a village in the province of A Coruña.
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