anna

[ ah-nuh ]

/ ˈɑ nə /

a former cupronickel coin of Pakistan, the 16th part of a rupee: last issued in 1960.

a former cupronickel coin of India, the 16th part of a rupee.

Origin of anna

First recorded in 1720–30, anna is from the Hindi word ānā

Anna

[ an-uh ]

/ ˈæn ə /

Douay Bible. Hannah.

a female given name: from a Hebrew word meaning “grace.”

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So many were arrested in Leningrad, the poet Anna Akhmatova said, that the city “dangled like an appendage from its prisons….”

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This gentleman thinks he would like it, and Anna is frantic to see the boys.

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Anna immediately went over to the child, to try and persuade her to fulfil her duty.

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Anna followed her back to the farmyard, where she pushed open the door of a shed, and beckoned her companion in.

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Anna Petrovna was showing Sister K—— a large and hideous photograph of her children.

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anna

/ (ˈænə) /

a former Indian copper coin, worth one sixteenth of a rupee

C18: from Hindi ānā