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Rana

Rana proper noun: a surname.

Proper noun

Rana (countable and uncountable, plural Ranas)

  1. A surname.
  2. A large municipality in Nordland county, Norway. See Rana, Norway on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Rana meaning in Tamil

Rana in Tamil

ரானா

Forms of Rana

pluralRanas

Origin of Rana

Various origins of surname: * Borrowed from Hindi राना (rānā)/राणा (rāṇā), a Rajput surname which probably is a back-formation from रानी (rānī, “queen”). * Borrowed from Italian and Spanish Rana, a nickname for someone with bulging eyes or a croaky voice, from rana (“frog”). * Borrowed from Galician Raña, a habitational surname from a village in the province of A Coruña.

Phrases with Rana

Questions about Rana

What does Rana mean?
Rana means a surname.
What is Rana in Tamil?
Rana in Tamil is ரானா. See Rana meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is Rana?
Rana is a proper noun.

Words near Rana in the dictionary

  1. ran up on
  2. ran wild
  3. ran with
  4. ran with scissors
  5. ran with the hare and hunted with the hounds
  6. Rana
  7. ranachrome
  8. ranacide
  9. ranaconitine
  10. Ranald
  11. ranalexin

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Rana (page history and authors); rana (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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