Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A copper coin formerly used in India and Pakistan.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In India, the sixteenth part of a rupee, or about 3 cents. Under Queen Victoria, coins of the value of 2 annas (silver), worth 2⅞d., half an anna (copper), etc., have been issued.
- n. The Indian name of a South American skunk.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. An East Indian money of account, the sixteenth of a rupee, or about 2� cents.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a former copper coin of Pakistan and India
Etymologies
- From Hindi अन्न (anná). (Wiktionary)
- Hindi ānā, from Sanskrit aṇu-, small. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“We haven't seen the hybrids again, and now D'anna is shooting herself repeatedly to try and conjure her own Special Revelation between death and resurrection.”
“The oldest inmate of the home is Tatha, a 101-year-old man, who is fondly called 'anna' - meaning elder brother in the Kannada language - by other inmates and staff.”
“Videlicet, sir, this week a fellow captive is minus a finger and thumb -- and all for oversight of six annas {the anna is the 16th part of a rupee}.”
“Suniel Shetty is not called anna for any reason: director Kabir Sadanand”
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“W. r.t Condoleeza Rice -- which "anna" has brought up a few times -- the Jake Tapper blog post over at ABC News indicates that unless Obama saw that a cabinet member would be well outside of the mainstream, he would approve of that cabinet member.”
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“Throne, men will swear falsely for an "anna" or two.”
“We filled and frosted like the Hostess cupcakes, and piped on the birthday girl’s name anna with the marshmallow icing to look like the signature 7 loop swirl!”
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“Of food' comprises the senses of smell and taste together: it denotes the sense of smell on the ground that that sense is connected with earth, which may be 'food,' and the sense of taste in so far as 'anna' may be also explained as that by means of which eating goes on (adyate).”
The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Ramanuja — Sacred Books of the East, Volume 48
“From this 'anna' there spring successively breath, mind, and all other effected things up to work, which is the means of producing reward in the form of the heavenly world, and Release.”
The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Ramanuja — Sacred Books of the East, Volume 48
“Granted that D'anna's still on Earth, but stranger things have happened in this series.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘anna’.
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songbirds
Names of girls in song titles. Not in the lyrics, just in the titles.
Just the name on the list, then the full title with any identifying notes in the comments, please.
Can be the same ...marianne, evie, lady d'arbanville, peggy sue, suzanne, dianne, boni maroni, miss molly, lola, mony, sadie, rita and 206 more...
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Money
This started out as a Scrabble list, so I'm personally limiting myself to listing words which are acceptable in the Official Scrabble Players Dictionary, but go ahead and list whatever you can find...
lek, shekel, sheqalim, qindar, qindars, qindarka, qintar, qintars, dollar, dollars, penny, pennies and 143 more...
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Humours of Old Bombay
Terms that call to mind British India.
palkee, chee-chee, dorian, Hindoo, dinghee-wallah, garee, hamal, banghy, hookah-bardar, dak, ghat, mussalchee and 133 more...
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emordnilap
reviled, loot, no, ta, rat, part, pit, stop, spat, ten, mad, mart and 108 more...
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Scrabble Names
Given names that were acceptable for play the last time I checked the OWL.
kris, ray, barb, morris, kat, mark, maria, erica, marge, mason, hunter, hazel and 168 more...
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WF - palindromes
alula, anna, bib, bob, civic, dad, deed, dud, DVD, eve, ewe, eye and 91 more...
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Coined
cent, penny, nickel, dime, quarter, farthing, shilling, halfpenny, twopence, threepence, sixpence, groat and 91 more...
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Norwegian female names
aase, ada, agnes, aina, amalie, ane, anette, anita, anja, ann, anna, annette and 160 more...
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Isograms
Words with each letter repeated the same number of times. The pattern of repetition is tagged: 1212, 1221, 121122, 122121, 121233, 122133, 123123, 123132, 123213, 123231, 123312, 123321, 12123434, ...
deeded, sestettes, geggee, appeases, caucasus, isis, cancan, intestines, mesosome, palpal, valval, mama and 154 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for anna.
bilby I'm pretty impressed that the examples actually pull up some genuine meanings for anna. Mar 1, 2013
skipvia Anna by Arthur Alexander Feb 8, 2008