Elana
Can anyone help me with the meaning of Elana?
I found it in the book "Enchantress from the Stars", released in 1970. It won a Newbery Medal.
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I found it in the book "Enchantress from the Stars", released in 1970. It won a Newbery Medal.
Please rate my list: https://www.behindthename.com/pnl/6232
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Elana is such a simple sequence of sounds that it can occur in many languages and can have many meanings. It is also the kind of name that is easily made up by a writer or game designer. Does it have an in-book meaning in 'Enchantress of the Stars'?
--elbowin
--elbowin
For Jewish people, Elana is mostly likely either a variant of Ilana or its own name made of the components "אֱלִ," which refers to god, and "עָנָה," which is often translated in Jewish baby name books as "answered."