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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
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of anna1

First recorded in 1720–30, anna is from the Hindi word ānā
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Word History and Origins

Origin of anna1

C18: from Hindi ānā
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Example Sentences

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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