JANA is a Swahili word meaning yesterday.
Jana is the spelling of several unrelated given names.
a Slavic short-form for Johanna
a Catalan and Occitan old name
In Cantabria it is the feminine form of Jano, a celtic god.
the Roman goddess Diana, who was often called Jana
In India however, Jana is a shortform for the Hindu god Janarthanan.
In Arabic Jana, short-form for Jannah (Arabic: جنّة) is both the Islamic and Christian concept of paradise. It can be also used as a noun which means to Earn or Reap and is used as a female name, but is pronounced as Jana جنى
In Albanian short for Jehona which means echo, other short names include Jona, Ana, Hona
