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Rana

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  1. 1
    A surname. countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    A large municipality in Nordland county, Norway. See Rana, Norway on Wikipedia.Wikipedia countable, uncountable

Etymology

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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