Usually means: Generosity, giving, foundational Buddhist practice.
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  1. Dana: Merriam-Webster
  2. Dana: Collins English Dictionary
  3. Dana: Vocabulary.com
  4. Dana, Dana, dana, dana: Wordnik
  5. Dana, dana: Wiktionary
  6. Dana: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  7. Dana: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. DANA: Dictionary.com
  9. DANA, D.ana, Dana (Angel), Dana (Buddhism), Dana (Mirna), Dana (South Korean singer), Dana (disambiguation), Dana (given name), Dana (surname), Dana: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Dana: Rhymezone
  11. dana: FreeDictionary.org
  12. dana: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. Dana: TheFreeDictionary.com
  14. Dana: Infoplease Dictionary
  15. Dana: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

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  1. Dana: Legal dictionary

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  1. Dana: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
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  2. DANA: Acronym Finder
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Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Buddhism Glossary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. D'ana: Urban Dictionary

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  1. dana: Glossary of Sanskrit Terms in Integral Yoga Literature

(Note: See danas as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Dana)

noun:  An American surname of uncertain origin.
noun:  (chiefly US) A unisex given name transferred from the surname, originally given in honor of Richard Henry Dana Jr.
noun:  A female given name from Hebrew, masculine equivalent Daniel, from Romanian, Czech, Slovak and German.
noun:  A unisex given name from Persian, borrowed from Persian دانا (dânâ), meaning “wise”.
noun:  A female given name from Gulf Arabic دانة (dāna), meaning “pearl”.
noun:  A town in Indiana; named for Charles Dana, a railroad official.
noun:  A village in Illinois; named for Thomas Dana, a railroad official.
noun:  A city in Iowa; named for Samuel Dana, an early settler.
noun:  A town in central-west Nepal.
noun:  A village in the Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland.
noun:  A village in Amhara, Ethiopia.
noun:  A village in central-west Jordan.
noun:  The virtue of generosity or giving, a form of alms, in Indian philosophy.

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