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Ayana (name)

Ayana is a name known in several unrelated languages around the world, including Amharic, Hebrew, Japanese, Kikongo, Oromo, and Turkic.

Amharic

In Ethiopian culture, the name Ayana means beautiful flower in Amharic.

Hebrew

The Hebrew name Ayana is a variant of Maayan, meaning fountain or spring.

Japanese

is a feminine Japanese given name which can be written using different kanji with different meanings:

  • 彩菜, "colorful, greens"
  • 彩那, "colorful, what"
  • 彩名, "colorful, name"
  • 綾奈, "design, what"
  • 朱菜, "vermilion, greens"

The name can also be written in either hiragana or katakana.

Kikongo

Ayana (Ah-yah-nah or Ay-yah-nah) is a unisex Bakongo name that means "they protected" or "they supported" in the Kongo language. Those who bear the name can be found in northwest Angola, southwest Democratic Republic of Congo, and among the African diaspora in the Americas.

Turkic

In Turkic languages it means moon mother; ay means moon, ana means mother.

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