Meaning of Ana | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A collection of things associated with a person or place, especially a personal collection of anecdotes or conversations at table
2. Anorexia.
   Internet, uncountable
3. A female given name, equivalent to English Anna or Hannah.
4. Alternative spelling of Anah, a city in Anbar, Iraq.
   alt-of, alternative
5. An ethnicity within the Yoruba people, mostly living in Benin and Togo in West Africa.
6. A member of the Ana people.
   plural, plural-only
7. Abbreviation of Anaheim.
   abbreviation, alt-of
8. Initialism of anti-nuclear antibody.
   abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
9. Ana, a female given name from Latin [in turn from Ancient Greek, in turn from Hebrew], equivalent to English Ann, Anna, Anne, or Hannah
10. A river in Oregon, United States.
11. The language within the Niger-Congo family spoken by the Ana people.
12. Initialism of Afghan National Army.
    abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
13. Initialism of animal nursing assistant.
    UK, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
14. Hannah (Biblical figure)
15. Initialism of All Nippon Airways.
    abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
16. Anna (Biblical prophetess)
17. Initialism of Australian National Airways.
    Australia, abbreviation, alt-of, historical, initialism
18. Initialism of American Nurses Association.
    US, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism

Equivalents

Examples

“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”

“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.”

“Ana Island and a strip of flat land below the steep banks bordering the Euphrates, some 350 km (220 miles) due east of Palmyra, were occupied for millennia by the buildings of a succession of important settlements...”

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