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Yana vs Ana - What's the difference?

yana | ana |

As nouns the difference between yana and ana

is that yana is any of the three vehicles of Buddhist practice; Mahayana, Hinayana, and Vajrayana while ana is a collection of things associated with a person or place, especially a personal collection of anecdotes or conversations at table.

As a proper noun Yana

is {{given name|female|from=Slavic}}. A romanization of the Bulgarian or Russian name {{term|Яна|tr=Jána|lang=bg}}.

As an adverb ana is

(in prescriptions) Of each; an equal quantity; as, wine and honey, ana (or contracted to aa), / ij. (that is, of wine and honey, each, two ounces).

As an initialism ANA is

All Nippon Airways

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 .

    Anagrams

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    ana

    English

    Etymology 1

    Formed from the (etyl) suffix (-ana); compare ism (from ).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A collection of things associated with a person or place, especially a personal collection of anecdotes or conversations at table
  • * 1803 , publisher's advertisement in Memoirs of the Late Mrs. Robinson , Page 8
    • The FRENCH ANAS', or Selections from the best of the French ' Anas , interspersed with biographical sketches. In three elegant Volumes, small 8vo. price 15s. boards
  • * 1903', , Franklin B. Sawvel (editor), ''The complete '''anas of Thomas Jefferson , Round Table Press, New York
  • * 2008 , Kevin J. Hayes, The road to Monticello: The life and mind of Thomas Jefferson ,
    • Jefferson was aware of the literary tradition of anas , which extended back at least as far as Athenaeus's Dipnosophistarum , a delightful collection of table talk from ancient times covering a variety of subjects including law, literature, medicine, and philosophy.

    Etymology 2

    From Greek (aná), of each .

    Adverb

    (-)
  • (in prescriptions ) Of each; an equal quantity; as, wine and honey, ana (or contracted to aa), / ij. (that is, of wine and honey, each, two ounces).

    • Etymology 3

    Noun

    (-)
  • (Internet, slang) Anorexia (used especially by the pro-ana movement).
    • Derived terms
    * pro-ana

    Etymology 4

    (etyl); see (ana-).

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • In a direction analogous to up, but along the additional axis added by the fourth dimension.
  • * 1985 , Rudy von Bitter Rucker, The Fourth Dimension: A Guided Tour of the Higher Universes (page 43)
    • Your right half would move ana , let us say, and your left half would move kata. The two halves would, in their parallel spaces, move past the plane of rotation, and then they would swing back into our space.
  • * 2005 , Animation journal (volumes 13-15)
    • Added to the conventional FPS control keys are two extra keys that move the player in ana and kata direction in 4d space. If you go in this extra direction the space around you changes, the room transforms.
    Antonyms
    * kata

    Anagrams

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