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Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
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name
A female given name from the Slavic languages. A romanization of the Bulgarian or Russian or Ukrainian name Я́на (Jána).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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name
A river in Sakha (Yakutia), Russia that rises near Verkhoyansk and flows into the Yana Bay of the Laptev Sea.
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name
The now extinct language of the Yana people, best known for a systematic differentiation between men's and women's speech.
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noun
A member of a North American Indian people who once resided in the eastern portion of the upper Sacramento River valley in California.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Any of the vehicles of Buddhist or Tantric practice.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: Buddhism, lifestyle, religion
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noun
the Yanan language spoken by the Yana
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: Yanan
noun
a member of an extinct North American Indian people who lived in northern California
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: Hokan, Hoka
History
Cognate to English Jane, ultimately from Hebrew, feminine form of Ioannes ( =John).
From Yana yana (“person, people”).
Transliteration of Sanskrit यान (yāna, “vehicle”).
Across languages
7 source translations are retained for this English entry.
