does the name Ana (Anna) have a meaning?

Question

does the name have a deeper meaning, does it come from latin or greek or some other anciant language, did it mean anything important in history..?

Answer 1

Not sure of the origin/history etc. But I know it means "graceful" or "full of the grace of God"

Answer 2

Anna is the name the Russian writer Tolstoy chose for her heroine in "Anna Karenina". It is the same as "Ann" or "Anne". Just look at the famous people with the names
Anna; "Anna and the King", "Anne Bancroft" and "Ann Margaret". These are famous personalities with heroism or achievement in their vocation. It has a trait of certain refined individuality and egositism. It is a name of high repute in society. There's "Aunty Anne Cafe" in Bangkok and Singapore. It has been evloved into a social space in the form of a popular cafe other than a name for a female.

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Answer 3

Anna is the Latin form (borrowed through Greek) of the Hebrew name "Hannah"
חַנָּה (Channah)** meaning "favour" or "grace" -- though perhaps a bit more than that (see below)

**The ח sounds like the "ch" in Scottish "loch" or German "ach" (NOT the English "ch" of "chat").

This name appears in the Hebrew Bible as the mother of Samuel (1 Samuel 1-2), and in the Greek New Testament (as "Anna') for the woman who blessed the infant Jesus at the Temple (Luke 2)

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Now that this is the same Hebrew word is part of the fuller name "Johannah" > English "John" (and MANY other forms from "Ivan" to "Sean"). The meaning of this name is "Yah is gracious" --"Yah" being the shortened form of the name for God, "Yahweh" (or sometimes you'll see "Jehovah"), which is traditionally translated as "the LORD" (as a way of avoided misusing this sacred name - the capitalization is a way of showing that the name is NOT simply the quivalent of the ordinary Hebrew word for "Lord" [Adonay]). So we typically say it means "the LORD is gracious".

Most likely the form Hannah was meant as a 'short form' with the same meaning - "(He/the LORD) is gracious". The same thing happens in a number of other cases. For example, "Micah" literally means "Who is like?" but is actually just short for "Michael" or "Micaiah" meaning "Who is like God?" and "Who is like the LORD?"
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Finally, a note on Hannah's role in the Bible -- as the mother of Samuel, the judge and prophet who introduced the kingship to Israel, eventually anointing King David-- she plays an important role. She is famous for the SONG she sang after Samuel's birth, celebrating how God had shown GRACE to HER by giving her a child (she had been barren), but also prophetically looking forward to the king God will send.

In the NEW Testament, the language of Hannah's song is echoed in MARY'S song ("the Magnificat"), which blesses God for giving her this child (Jesus) and looks forward to his fulfilling the promises of the line of King David.

Answer 4

Ann means "full of the grace of God". And indeed she was. She was the mother of Mary who was the mother of Jesus.

Answer 5

i dont know where it comes from, but in Arabic it means "me"

Answer 6

I don't know.