Hannah
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈhænə/
- Mother of the prophet Samuel in the Old Testament.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), imprinted at London: By Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981 ↗, 1 Samuel 1:8 ↗:
- Then said Elkanah her husband to her, Hannah, why weepest thou? and why eatest thou not? and why is thy heart grieved? am I not better to thee than ten sons?
- A female given name.
- 1959 Philip Roth, Goodbye, Columbus, and Five Short Stories, Houghton Mifflin 1959, page 116
- "What about Hannah Schreiber?"
- He smiled, flashing some gold in his mouth. "How do you like that name? She was only a girl, but she had an old lady's name. - - -
- 2002 Kate Atkinson, Not the End of the World, Doubleday, ISBN 0385604726, page 33:
- She could buy pretty clothes for a girl and plait her hair with ribbons. And she could call her a nice, old-fashioned, middle-class name like Sarah or Emma or Hannah.
- 2012 Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl, Phoenix (2013), ISBN 978-0-7538-2766-6, page 77:
- I wish it were like the movies, the name something silly, CanDee or Bambie, something you could roll your eyes at. Misti with two hearts over the I's. But it's Hannah, which is a real woman, presumably like me.
- 1959 Philip Roth, Goodbye, Columbus, and Five Short Stories, Houghton Mifflin 1959, page 116
- A city in North Dakota, US.
- An unincorporated community in South Carolina, US.
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