Meaning of Yana | Babel Free

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1. A female given name from the Slavic languages. A romanization of the Bulgarian or Russian or Ukrainian name Я́на (Jána).
2. A member of a North American Indian people who once resided in the eastern portion of the upper Sacramento River valley in California.
3. The now extinct language of the Yana people, best known for a systematic differentiation between men's and women's speech.
4. Any of the vehicles of Buddhist or Tantric practice.
5. A river in Sakha (Yakutia), Russia that rises near Verkhoyansk and flows into the Yana Bay of the Laptev Sea.

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“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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