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Edna

/ˈɛdnə/

Edna proper noun: a female given name from Hebrew.

Proper noun

Edna

  1. A female given name from Hebrew.
    • Edna also said to Tobias, The Lord of heaven restore thee, my dear brother, and grant that I may see thy children of my daughter Sara before I die.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Tobit 10:12
    • 'Edna', forsooth! No doubt her origin and morals are quite as apocryphal as her name.1866, Augusta Jane Evans, St. Elmo, G. W. Dillingham, page 54
  2. A city, the county seat of Jackson County, Texas, United States.
  3. A census-designated place in San Luis Obispo County, California, United States.

Noun capitalized: eDNA

eDNA

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of environmental DNA.

Edna meaning in Hindi

Edna in Hindi

female given name
एडना eḍnā

Origin of Edna

From Hebrew עֶדְנָה (“pleasure; delight”); a variant of Eden in the Book of Tobit. In Ireland and Scotland it has been used as an anglicization of Eithne.

Words formed from Edna

Questions about Edna

What does Edna mean?
Edna means a female given name from Hebrew.
What is Edna in Hindi?
Edna in Hindi is एडना (eḍnā). See Edna meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is Edna?
Edna can be a proper noun or a noun.
How do you pronounce Edna?
Edna is pronounced /ˈɛdnə/.

Words near Edna in the dictionary

  1. Edmundson
  2. Edmundson Acres
  3. Edmundsons
  4. Edmundston
  5. edn.
  6. Edna
  7. Edney
  8. Edneys
  9. Ednora
  10. EDNOS
  11. EDNY

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Edna (page history and authors); eDNA (page history and authors). 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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