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Dana

See also: Appendix:Variations of "dana"

English

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Dana

  1. An American surname of uncertain origin.
  2. (chiefly US) A unisex given name transferred from the surname, originally given in honor of Richard Henry Dana Jr.
    • 1971, J. Anthony Lukas, Don't Shoot — We Are Your Children, Random House, →ISBN, page 419:
      Johnie had become a "problem" for the advisers 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.
    • 2000, California Blue Book‎[1], page 168:
      Currently serving his sixth term in Congress, Dana Rohrabacher represents California's scenic 45th Congressional District.
    • 2024 November 16, Aaron Timms, “How UFC head Dana White became the glue between Maga and the manosphere”, in The Guardian‎[2], →ISSN:
      When Dana White barreled up to the microphone, at Donald Trump’s request, to say his piece on election night, it represented confirmation of the UFC CEO’s status as one of the key members of the president-elect’s inner circle.
  3. A female given name from Hebrew, masculine equivalent Daniel, from Romanian, Czech, Slovak and German.
  4. A unisex given name from Persian, borrowed from Persian دانا (dânâ), meaning “wise”.
  5. A female given name from Gulf Arabic دانة (dāna), meaning “pearl”.
  6. A town in Indiana; named for Charles Dana, a railroad official.
  7. A village in Illinois; named for Thomas Dana, a railroad official.
  8. A city in Iowa; named for Samuel Dana, an early settler.
  9. A town in central-west Nepal.
  10. A village in the Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland.
  11. A village in Amhara, Ethiopia.
  12. A village in central-west Jordan.

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Czech

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈdana]
  • Rhymes: -ana
  • Hyphenation: Da‧na

Etymology 1

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Feminine form of the biblical name Dan. Also a short form of Daniela and Bohdana.

Proper noun

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Dana f

  1. a female given name
Declension
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Declension of Dana (hard feminine)
singular plural
nominative Dana Dany
genitive Dany Dan
dative Daně Danám
accusative Danu Dany
vocative Dano Dany
locative Daně Danách
instrumental Danou Danami
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Etymology 2

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Proper noun

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Dana

  1. genitive/accusative singular of Dan

Latvian

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Etymology

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First recorded as a given name of Latvians in 1969. From Daniela.

Proper noun

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Dana f

  1. a female given name

References

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  • Klāvs Siliņš: Latviešu personvārdu vārdnīca. Riga "Zinātne" 1990, →ISBN
  • [3] Population Register of Latvia: Dana was the only given name of 2197 persons in Latvia on May 21st 2010.

Lower Sorbian

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Noun

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Dana

  1. genitive singular of Dan
  2. accusative singular of Dan
  3. nominative dual of Dan

Norwegian Nynorsk

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Etymology

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From Old Norse Dana, from *dana (“female Dane”), thus a feminine form of Danr, from danr (“Dane”).

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Dana f (definite Dana)

  1. a female given name from Old Norse, meaning “Dane”, masculine equivalent Dan
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Slovak

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Etymology

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(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

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Proper noun

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Dana f (genitive singular Dany, nominative plural Dany, declension pattern of žena)

  1. a female given name

Declension

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Declension of Dana
singular plural
nominative Dana Dany
genitive Dany Dán
dative Dane Danám
accusative Danu Dany
locative Dane Danách
instrumental Danou Danami

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Further reading

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  • “Dana”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2024
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