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Janna

Janna proper noun: a female given name from Hebrew, a fanciful modern variant of Jane.

Proper noun

Janna

  1. A female given name from Hebrew, a fanciful modern variant of Jane.
    • Clever little sister Janna. Correction, Jane. She wasn't going to call me Janna, Jane it was and Jane it will be, to the end. How many times I have said to her, Georgie, no one calls me Jane, no one, I want to be Janna. I can't remember to, says she, making a point, and that's that. She thinks...1984, Doris Lessing, The Diaries of Jane Somers, Michael Joseph, →ISBN, page 64

Questions about Janna

What does Janna mean?
Janna means a female given name from Hebrew, a fanciful modern variant of Jane.
What part of speech is Janna?
Janna is a proper noun.

Words near Janna in the dictionary

  1. janky
  2. Jankó keyboard
  3. Jankó keyboards
  4. Janmashtami
  5. jann
  6. Janna
  7. Jannah
  8. Jannali
  9. Jannat
  10. Jannatabad
  11. Janner

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