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Yana¹

  • /ˈjɑː.nə/ UK, US

Rhymes with -ɑːnə

Where it comes from

Cognate to English Jane, ultimately from Hebrew, feminine form of Ioannes ( =John).

proper noun

  1. A female given name from the Slavic languages. A romanization of the Bulgarian or Russian or Ukrainian name Я́на (Jána).
  2. A river in Sakha (Yakutia), Russia that rises near Verkhoyansk and flows into the Yana Bay of the Laptev Sea.

Yana²

  • /ˈjɑː.nə/ UK, US

Rhymes with -ɑːnə

Where it comes from

From Yana yana (“person, people”).

noun Yanas · Yana

  1. A member of a North American Indian people who once resided in the eastern portion of the upper Sacramento River valley in California.

proper noun

  1. The now extinct language of the Yana people, best known for a systematic differentiation between men's and women's speech.

    Similar: Yanan

yana³

  • /ˈjɑː.nə/ UK, US

Where it comes from

Transliteration of Sanskrit यान (yāna, “vehicle”).

noun yanas

  1. Any of the vehicles of Buddhist or Tantric practice. The Tibetan word for yana is thekpa, which means "that which lifts you up." Anything that lifts you up and takes you to your destination is a yana.

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noun any of the three vehicles of Buddhist practice

中文乘 shèng
Françaisyâna
Tiếng Việtthừa

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@misc{yana_2026,
  title = {yana},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/yana},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}