Jana

Infobox Given Name Revised
name = Jana


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gender = Male/Female
meaning = Arabic for "it is what you gained" (yajni)
region = Lebanon/India
origin = A very old name used in the Arabic world
shortform = Janarthanan
footnotes = :"in Sanskrit, "jana" means "tribe, people"; see Janapada."

Jana is a given name, which has many origins in different languages. In India however, Jana is a shortform for the Hindu God Janarthanan / Janardhan. In Arabic it a noun which means Paradise or Garden, used as a female name, but is prounounced Jannah, with the N held longer for a moment. For some it is the name of the Roman goddess Diana, who was often called Jana; for others, Jana is a Slavic short-form for Johanna. Less often, this form is Janna.

People identified as Jana

*Jana - Native American singer.
*Jana - Serbian singer
*P.S.Jana - Canada
*Mantu Mohan Jana - India
*Jana - Étudiant à l'Alliance Française de Madras

Fictional Janas

*Jana of the Jungle

Variants

Jaina, Janna, Janne, Jane, Janet, Janka (Bulgarian), Janina (Polish), Janita, Jantina, Janka (Hungarian), Janica, Jaana (Finnish), Janine, Jeanne, Yana.

Acronym

*Jana (or JANA) is an acronym for Jamahiriya News Agency, Libya's state news agency.
*Jana (or JANA) is an acronym for Jafria Association of North America, the oldest Shia Muslim organization in the US.