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The Hebrew name יוֹחָנָה Yôḥānāh forms a feminine equivalent in Hebrew for the name Joanna and its variants. The Christian Arabic form of John is يوحنّا Yūḥannā , based on the Judeo-Aramaic form of the name.
However, the original name Joanna in ancient Greek, Hebrew and Latin is a single unit, not a compound name. The names Hannah, Anna, Anne, Ann are etymologically related to Joanne just the same: they are derived from Hebrew חַנָּה Ḥannāh 'grace' from the same verbal root meaning "to be gracious".
Whereas Joanna is a Hellenized, Grecian, adaptation of a Hebrew name, [11] Junia is a Latin name. Jews often adopted a second, Latin name that were nearly sound equivalents to their original name. Joanna and Junia act as near sound equivalents in the native languages, which Bauckham says is indicative of the identification between the two.
The Anglosphere female name Joan entered the English language through the Old French forms, Johanne and Jehanne, female variants of the male name Johannes. [1]: 356 In Catalan-Valencian and Occitan, Joan (pronounced) has been in continuous use as the native, masculine form of John since at least the Middle Ages. [4]
Juana.png. Juana is a Spanish female name. It is the feminine form of Juan (English John), and thus corresponds to the English names Jane, Jean, Joan, and Joanna.The feminine diminutive form (male equivalent to Johnny) is Juanita (equivalent to Janet, Janey, Joanie, etc).
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Johanna is a feminine name, a variant form of Joanna that originated in Latin in the Middle Ages, including an -h- by analogy with the Latin masculine name Johannes. The original Greek form Iōanna lacks a medial /h/ because in Greek /h/ could only occur initially. For more information on the name's origin, see the article on Joanna.
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