JANA

The story of the name

Jana is the spelling of several unrelated given names.In Albanian, short for Jehona which means "echo", other short names include Jona, Ana, Hona In Arabic Jana, is a noun which means "to Earn" or "to Reap" and is used as a female name, but is pronounced as Janaa In Brazilian Portuguese, short for Janaína, a name Amerindian, is a female name of Tupi-Guarani origin. It derives from the combination of the terms "îana", which means "river" in Tupi, and "nã", which means "mother". The name can be interpreted as "mother of the river" or "meaning "queen of the seas" In Cantabria it is the feminine…

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