Yana

See also: Appendix:Variations of "yana"

English

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈjɑː.nə/

Etymology 1

Cognate to English Jane, ultimately from Hebrew, feminine form of Ioannes ( =John).(Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?)

Proper noun

Yana

1. A female given name from the Slavic languages. A romanization of the Bulgarian or Russian name Я́на (Jána).
2. A river in Sakha (Yakutia), Russia that rises near Verkhoyansk and flows into the Yana Bay of the Laptev Sea.

Etymology 2

From Yana yana (“person, people”).

Noun

Yana (plural Yanas or Yana)

1. A member of a North American Indian people who once resided in the eastern portion of the upper Sacramento River valley in California.

Proper noun

Yana

1. The now extinct language of the Yana people, best known for a systematic differentiation between men's and women's speech.

Synonyms

• Yanan

Anagrams

• Anya, Ayan, Ya'an, Ya-an