Definitions

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  • proper noun A female given name. A romanization of the Bulgarian or Russian name Яна (Jána).
  • proper noun A river in Sakha (Yakutia), Russia.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a member of an extinct North American Indian people who lived in northern California
  • noun the Yanan language spoken by the Yana

Etymologies

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

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Examples

  • When he called Yana, she became so excited that he felt it would better that he take a taxi home.

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  • The amnesty was granted on the banks of the river Yana-yacu, and here they were called Yana-yacu-cuna, corrupted into Yana-cona.

    History of the Incas Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa

  • As the pardon was proclaimed in Yana-yacu, he ordered that all the pardoned should be called Yana-yacus.

    History of the Incas Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa

  • While doing this the Inca came to a place called Yana-yacu, which means

    History of the Incas Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa

  • On Saturday morning Oct from 11 to noon, at a Disney Hall gleaming in the downtown sun, virtuoso pianist Yana Reznik hosted the season's first Toyota Symphonies For Youth concert.

    Laurence Vittes: Toyota Concerts for Children Launches Season at Disney Hall Laurence Vittes 2010

  • Through the few words they exchanged, through the comfortable silences between the words, [Kroeber] felt Ishi trying to help him in his own loss, to comfort him, to transmit to him something of the strength and wisdom of his own Yana faith….

    Theodora Kroeber 2010

  • From what I saw in the audience, many lives were touched, with Yana Reznik playing her dual role to absolute perfection.

    Laurence Vittes: Toyota Concerts for Children Launches Season at Disney Hall Laurence Vittes 2010

  • Yana Kramer , who does business development at WyeTree Asset Management out of London, called the verdict "another message that just because someone may invest with a big guy, that it doesn't mean that they're safe."

    News Rocks Hedge Funds Gregory Zuckerman 2011

  • On Saturday morning Oct from 11 to noon, at a Disney Hall gleaming in the downtown sun, virtuoso pianist Yana Reznik hosted the season's first Toyota Symphonies For Youth concert.

    Laurence Vittes: Toyota Concerts for Children Launches Season at Disney Hall Laurence Vittes 2010

  • From what I saw in the audience, many lives were touched, with Yana Reznik playing her dual role to absolute perfection.

    Laurence Vittes: Toyota Concerts for Children Launches Season at Disney Hall Laurence Vittes 2010

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