• IPA: /ˈænə/

anna (plural annas)

1. A unit of currency in former British India equal to 12 pies or frac 1 rupee.

• Portuguese: aná

• IPA: /ˈænə/

1. A female given name.
   • c. 1886 William Ernest Henley, A Ballade of Ladies' Names, Gleeson White:Ballades and Rondeaus, Read Books 1887, page 19:

     Every lover the years disclose / Is of a beautiful name made free. / One befriends, and all others are foes. / Anna's the name of names for me.

   • 1967 Joan G. Robinson, When Marnie Was There, HarperCollins (2014), ISBN 978-0-00-759135-0, page 189:

     M for Madeleine, M for Marguerite, M for Melanie and the rest, she thought, smiling as she remembered the long string of glamorous names they had invented for her. No wonder plain "Anna" had seemed a little disappointing!

   • 1986 Sue Miller, The Good Mother, G.K.Hall 1987, ISBN 081614169X, page 183:

     His real name was Leonard, Len. He'd changed it when he came East. "Len," he said. "A turd of a name. Who wants it? I mean a name that ends in a nasalization, for Christ's sake. Leo now. It's like Anna. They go on forever. You can live with a name like that."

2. A prophetess in the New Testament.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), imprinted at London: By Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981 ↗, Luke 2:36 ↗:

     And there was one Anna, a prophetess, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Aser: she was of great age, and had lived with an husband seven years from her virginity;

3. A city in Illinois, ;.
4. A city in Texas.
5. A town in Voronezh, Russia.
6. A village in Järva, Estonia.
7. A village in Fars, Iran.
8. A village in Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad, Iran.
9. A village in Ohio, ;.
10. A municipality in Valencian Community, Spain.

• French: Anne
• German: Hanna, Anna (Textbibel, Elberfelder Bibel)
• Italian: Anna
• Portuguese: Ana
• Russian: А́нна