Dana vs Yana - What's the difference?
dana | yana |
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:
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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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.
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)- 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.