annaとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

From Late Latin Anna both directly and via numerous other languages, chiefly in reference to St Anne the apocryphal mother of Mary mother of Jesus but appearing in the Vulgate in reference to Anne the Prophetess, from Koine Greek Ἄννα (Ánna) in the New Testament, from Hebrew חַנָּה (Ḥannâ, “Hannah”), from חַנָּה (ḥannâ, “grace, gracious, graced with child”). As a city in Illinois, named for Anna Davie, wife of one of the initial settlers. Doublet of Ann, Anne, Ana, and Hannah.

固有名詞

Anna (plural Annas)

1. A female given name from Latin.
   • c. 1886 William Ernest Henley, A Ballade of Ladies' Names, Gleeson White:Ballades and Rondeaus, Read Books 1887, page 19:

     Every lover the years disclose / Is of a beautiful name made free. / One befriends, and all others are foes. / Anna's the name of names for me.

   • 1967, Joan G. Robinson, When Marnie Was There, HarperCollins, published 2014, →ISBN, page 189:

     M for Madeleine, M for Marguerite, M for Melanie and the rest, she thought, smiling as she remembered the long string of glamorous names they had invented for her. No wonder plain "Anna" had seemed a little disappointing!

   • 1986, Sue Miller, The Good Mother, G.K.Hall, published 1987, →ISBN, page 183:

     His real name was Leonard, Len. He'd changed it when he came East. "Len," he said. "A turd of a name. Who wants it? I mean a name that ends in a nasalization, for Christ's sake. Leo now. It's like Anna. They go on forever. You can live with a name like that."

   • 2018 April 23, Chuck Johnston, “Judge not allowed back to court after berating woman who died”, in CNN‎:

     Anna Twiggs bailed her sister out of jail Monday evening. She said she found her sister dead in her bed Wednesday morning.

2. A prophetess in the New Testament.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Luke 2:36:

     And there was one Anna, a prophetess, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Aser: she was of great age, and had lived with an husband seven years from her virginity;

3. A city in Illinois.
4. A city in Texas.
5. A town in Voronezh Oblast, Russia.
6. A village in Järva, Estonia.
7. A village in Fars Province, Iran.
8. A village in Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Province, Iran.
9. A village in Ohio; after Anna Thirkield, an early settler.
10. A municipality of the Valencian Community, Spain.

使用する際の注意点

• The name or its cognates are well used in all European languages because of the medieval cult of St. Anna or Anne, the mother of the Virgin Mary.
• Anna is periodically popular in the English-speaking world as a Latinate variant of Ann/Anne.

派生語

派生した語

• → Chinese: 安娜 (Ānnà)

語源 2

固有名詞

Anna

1. (obsolete) Alternative spelling of Anah, a city in Anbar, Iraq.

アナグラム

• A.A.N.N., Nana, anan, na-na, naan, nana

発音

• Anna: (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈan.na]
• Anna: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈan.na]
• Annā: (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈan.naː]
• Annā: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈan.na]
• ハイフネーション: An‧na

固有名詞

Anna f sg (genitive Annae); first declension

1. a female given name, equivalent to English Ann

語形変化

First-declension noun, singular only.

派生した語