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# yana

«yana» in Mova's school dictionary: **a girl's name, common in Ukraine, Russia, Bulgaria and…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (Yana, a name); also part of words (-yana, Buddhism)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (a name) Yana is a girl's name, common in Ukraine, Russia, Bulgaria and other countries; in Ukrainian it is written Яна. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Y/yana/#m1)

2) (Buddhism) In Sanskrit, "yana" means "vehicle" or "path", and appears in the names of branches of Buddhism, such as Mahayana and Vajrayana. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Y/yana/#m2)

3) Yana is also the name of a river in Siberia, Russia. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Y/yana/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

It is not an ordinary English word. In stories and class lists it is usually a girl's name, said "YAH-nuh". In religion lessons about Buddhism, you may see it inside longer words like Mahayana ("great vehicle"), meaning a way to reach enlightenment.

### examples

- Yana is a new girl in our class from Ukraine. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Y/yana/#x1)
- Yana and I sit together at lunch. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Y/yana/#x2)
- Mahayana Buddhism is followed in China, Japan and Korea. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Y/yana/#x3)
- In Sanskrit, "yana" means "vehicle" or "path". [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Y/yana/#x4)
- The Yana River flows north to the Arctic Ocean. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Y/yana/#x5)
- Yana wrote her name in Ukrainian letters: Яна. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Y/yana/#x6)

### note

As a name it takes a capital letter: Yana. It is not an English word, and there is nothing else to invent about it. In Buddhist terms it is joined to another word (Mahayana, Vajrayana).

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «yana» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Y/yana/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.