yana
IPA: jˈɑnʌ
Root Word: Yana
noun
- A female given name from the Slavic languages. A romanization of the Bulgarian or Russian name Я́на (Jána).
- A river in Sakha (Yakutia), Russia that rises near Verkhoyansk and flows into the Yana Bay of the Laptev Sea.
- 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 language of the Yana people, best known for a systematic differentiation between men's and women's speech.
- (Buddhism) Any of the vehicles of Buddhist or Tantric practice.
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