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Chana, chhana, or chaná may refer to :


Food

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Chickpea The chickpea or chick pea (''Cicer arietinum'') is an annual plant, annual legume of the family (biology), family Fabaceae, subfamily Faboideae, cultivated for its edible seeds. Its different types are variously known as gram," Bengal gram, ga ...
, known in South Asia as ''chana'' * Chhana, a type of curds from South Asia


Places

* Chana, Illinois, United States, an unincorporated community * Chana District, Songkhla Province, southern Thailand


Other uses

* Chang'an Motors commercial vehicles sub-brand known as Chana, a Chinese automaker * Chaná people, an ethnic group of Uruguay * Chaná language, an extinct language of Uruguay and Argentina * Chana (Bible), alternate transliteration of Hannah, a Biblical character; sometimes spelled "Chane" * Woman with seven sons, a character in 2 Maccabees, sometimes called Chana * Rosanna Tavarez, an American singer who used Chana as a stage name


People with the name

* Ameet Chana (born 1975), British-Indian actor * Arjan Drayton Chana (born 1994), English field hockey player * Chana Blaksztejn, a Polish-Jewish writer and journalist * Chana Bloch (1940–2017), American poet, translator, and scholar * Chana Eden (1932–2019), Israeli-American actress and singer * Chana Joffe-Walt, radio journalist and producer * Chana Katan (born 1958), American-born Israeli gynecologist, and public figure * Chana Kowalska (1907–1942), Polish painter and journalist * Chana Masson (born 1978), Brazilian handball player * Chana Orloff (1888–1968), Ukraine-born sculptor * Chana Pilane-Majake, South African politician *
Chana Porpaoin Chana Porpaoin (; born 1966-03-25 in Lom Sak District, Phetchabun Province, Thailand) is a Thai boxer. Chana and his younger brother, Songkram Porpaoin, became only the second set of twins to both capture world titles (the Galaxy twins, also o ...
(born 1966), Thai boxer * Chana Schneerson (1880–1964), wife of a Chabad Hasidic rabbi in Ukraine * Chana Timoner (1951–1998), American rabbi * Khuli Chana (born 1982), South African Motswako rapper * Navjot Chana (born 1983), Indian martial artist * Pindi Chana (born 1974), Tanzanian politician * Tarlochan Singh Chana (born 1949), Kenyan field hockey player


See also

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Hannah (name) Hannah, also spelled Hanna (given name), Hanna, Hana (name), Hana, Hanah, or Chana, is a feminine given name of Hebrew origin. It is derived from the Semitic root, root ''ḥ-n-n'', meaning "favour" or "grace". ''A Dictionary of First Names'' att ...
* Chanas (disambiguation) * Chano (disambiguation) * Channa (disambiguation) * Chana School {{disambiguation, geo, surname, given name