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.
Examples of "yana" in Sentences
- Position in the nine yana schema.
- Yana likes to draw and paint as well.
- Its headquarters are in the town of Yana.
- Yana picked up a tennis racquet aged six.
- Introduction and qualification of the term yana.
- Vajra means diamond and yana means wheel or vehicle.
- Yana is often associated with the hypothetical Hokan stock.
- Because of bad weather he was forced to winter on the Yana River.
- A young ingenue, Yana, played Cinderella with Tommy Steele in a cameo.
- One particular keynote of mahayoga yana has to do with the use of visualization.