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dana | yana |

As a verb dana

is to damn.

As a noun yana is

(buddhism) any of the three vehicles of buddhist practice; mahayana, hinayana and vajrayana.

dana

English

Proper noun

(en proper noun)
  • of uncertain origin.
  • (chiefly, US) derived from the surname.
  • * 1971 J. Anthony Lukas, Don't Shoot — We Are Your Children , Random House, ISBN 0394462874, page 419:
    • Johnie had become a "problem" for the advosers and "baby deans" in University Hall: men with marvelously Puritan names like Dana Cotton and Christopher Wadsworth called him in and asked what the trouble was.
  • usually interpreted as a form of Daniel, taken to use in the twentieth century; possibly borrowed from eastern Europe.
  • A village in Illinois
  • A town in Indiana
  • A city/town in Iowa

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    yana

    English

    (Yana River)

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • .
  • A river in Sakha (Yakutia), Russia.
  • A member of a North American Indian people who once resided in the eastern portion of the upper Sacramento River valley in California.
  • The now extinct Hokan language of the Yana, best known for a systematic differentiation between men's and women's speech.

    • Usage notes

    * When used to refer to the Native American Indian people or language, the plural of Yana' is used especially collectively. When used to refer to a single member of the people, the plural is always ' Yana .

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