Vana

Look up vana, vâna, vanā, vână, or väna in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

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Vana (or with diacrits, e.g. Váňa) may refer to the following :

Places and jurisdictions

Vana, Gujarat, a village on Saraushtra peninsula, western India
Vana State, a former princely state whose seat was in Vana, Gujarat
Vana, Iran, a village in Mazandaran Province, Iran

Fiction and mythology

Vána, a fictional character from J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium
The Vanir, a family of gods in Norse mythology

Other uses

The Hawaiian name for the sea urchin (also spelled as wana)
Van or Vana, 'forest' in Sanskrit, Hindi and many Indian languages, giving rise to terms like Vana Parva (the Episode of Forest) in the epic Mahabharat
D-alanine—(R)-lactate ligase, an enzyme
Váňa, a Czech surname

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