anna
/ˈænə/
anna noun: a former Indian coin, being a 16th of a rupee.
Noun
anna (plural annas)
Proper noun (1) capitalized: Anna
Anna (plural Annas)
- A female given name from Latin.
- Every lover the years disclose / Is of a beautiful name made free. / One befriends, and all others are foes. / Anna's the name of names for me.c. 1886 William Ernest Henley, A Ballade of Ladies' Names, Gleeson White:Ballades and Rondeaus, Read Books 1887, page 19
- M for Madeleine, M for Marguerite, M for Melanie and the rest, she thought, smiling as she remembered the long string of glamorous names they had invented for her. No wonder plain "Anna" had seemed a little disappointing!1967, Joan G. Robinson, When Marnie Was There, HarperCollins, published 2014, →ISBN, page 189
- A prophetess in the New Testament.
- And there was one Anna, a prophetess, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Aser: she was of great age, and had lived with an husband seven years from her virginity;1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Luke 2:36
- A city in Illinois.
- A city in Texas.
- A town in Voronezh Oblast, Russia.
- A village in Järva, Estonia.
- A village in Fars Province, Iran.
- A village in Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Province, Iran.
- A village in Ohio; after Anna Thirkield, an early settler.
- A municipality of the Valencian Community, Spain.
Proper noun (2) capitalized: Anna
Anna
anna meaning in Hindi, Marathi, Bengali and Malayalam
anna in Hindi
- former unit of Indian currency
- आना ānā
anna in Marathi
- former unit of Indian currency
- आणा āṇā
anna in Bengali
- আন্না
anna in Malayalam
- former unit of Indian currency
- അണ aṇa
More languagesFewer languages
- anna in Kannada
- ಅನ್ನಾ, ಅಣ್ಣಾ
- anna in Punjabi
- ਆਨਾ ānā
- anna in Gujarati
- આનો āno
- anna in Odia
- ଆନ୍ନା
- anna in Nepali
- अन्ना
- anna in Myanmar
- ပဲ pai:
Examples of anna in a sentence
- Anna had always felt inferior to her brother due to poor school grades.
- Anna decided to wear a black pencil skirt with her blue blouse that day to work.
- Anna and I are just messing about; this isn't going to last.
Forms of anna
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | annas |
| alternative form | ana |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Annas |
Origin of anna
From Hindi अन्न (ann, “food, grain”), आना (ānā), from Sanskrit अन्न (anna).
From Late Latin Anna both directly and via numerous other languages, chiefly in reference to St Anne the apocryphal mother of Mary mother of Jesus but appearing in the Vulgate in reference to Anne the Prophetess, from Koine Greek Ἄννα (Ánna) in the New Testament, from Hebrew חַנָּה (Ḥannâ, “Hannah”), from חַנָּה (ḥannâ, “grace, gracious, graced with child”). As a city in Illinois, named for Anna Davie, wife of one of the initial settlers. Doublet of Ann, Anne, Ana, and Hannah.
Words formed from anna
Phrases with anna
Words that rhyme with anna
Questions about anna
- What does anna mean?
- Anna means a former Indian coin, being a 16th of a rupee.
- What is anna in Hindi?
- Anna in Hindi is आना (ānā). See Anna meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is anna?
- Anna can be a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce anna?
- Anna is pronounced /ˈænə/.
- What is the plural of anna?
- The plural of anna is annas.
Words near anna in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: anna (page history and authors); Anna (page history and authors); anna (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); anna (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); anna (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); anna (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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