hannah

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Definition of hannah in English English dictionary

A female given name

Mother of the prophet Samuel in the Old Testament

given name, female, from Hebrew

{i} female first name; family name; mother of Samuel (Biblical, Old Testament); village in North Dakota (USA)

Related Terms

Hannah Arendt

a US political philosopher, writer, and teacher, who was born in Germany (1906-75). born Oct. 14, 1906, Hannover, Ger. died Dec. 4, 1975, New York, N.Y., U.S. German-born U.S. political theorist. She obtained her doctorate from the University of Heidelberg. Forced to flee the Nazis in 1933, she became a social worker in Paris and then fled again, to New York, in 1941. Her major work, Origins of Totalitarianism (1951), traced totalitarianism to 19th-century anti-Semitism, imperialism, and the disintegration of the traditional nation-state. She taught at the University of Chicago (1963-67) and thereafter at the New School for Social Research. Her controversial Eichmann in Jerusalem (1963) suggested that Adolf Eichmann, the SS leader who was chiefly responsible for the extermination of the Jews, was a banal figure rather than a demonic one

Hanoi Hannah

woman that was employed by North Vietnamese troops during the Vietnam War to deliver propaganda messages to enemy soldiers in an effort to lower the soldiers' morale

Hyphenation

Han·nah

Turkish pronunciation

hänı

Pronunciation

/ˈhanə/ /ˈhænə/

Etymology

() From the Hebrew חַנָּה (Channah or Hannah), meaning favour, grace, or graced with child.