anna

¹

[ ah-nuh ]

noun

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

Anna

²

[ an-uh ]

noun

1. Douay Bible. Hannah.
2. a first name: from a Hebrew word meaning “grace.”

anna

/ ˈænə /

noun

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of anna¹

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of anna¹

C18: from Hindi ānā

Example Sentences

Anna’s trauma has helped her in her police work of tracking down the monsters who brutalize children.

From Washington Post

Anna goes for sisterly loyalty and adventure over a less-than-charming prince.

From Time

Anna and legions like her remained resolute in their desire to put families back together.

From Washington Post

Anna, who had been looking into the health benefits of a vegan diet, told her husband that when they returned home from vacation, meat would be officially off the menu.

From Washington Post

Sometimes, it can empower Anna, and sometimes it can strip power from Anna.

From Fortune

Kendrick rapidly chants these last lines in repetition with Bilal and Anna Wise sing-shouting behind him, like a rallying cry.

From The Daily Beast

Purely by chance, Anna Coren had landed in Sydney just as the chocolate shop siege began.

From The Daily Beast

MOSCOW—Every now and then I run into Anna Chapman at a nail salon called “Little Fingers” on Potapovsky Avenue in downtown Moscow.

From The Daily Beast

There are few actresses these days that inspire more goodwill than Anna Kendrick.

From The Daily Beast

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

From The Daily Beast

General Santa Anna is within a mile of us with fifteen hundred men.

From Project Gutenberg

Today we did not proceed further than Mendoza (twelve miles), a still more insignificant place than St. Anna.

From Project Gutenberg

In contrast to this we have the story of the ghost of a lady of title, who had been in her lifetime Princess Anna of Saxony.

From Project Gutenberg

The other, the Campo de Santa Anna, is exceedingly extensive, but unfinished.

From Project Gutenberg

One girl, Anna, tried secretly to pass her a wet handkerchief, but this Nora quickly caught from her and hid.

From Project Gutenberg