Samana

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The term Samaná or Samana may mean several things:

Places

Dominican Republic

Other

  • Samana Cay, an uninhabited island
  • Samaná, Caldas, a town and municipality in the Colombian Department of Caldas
  • Samaná Norte River, a river in Antioquia Department, Colombia
  • Samana, India, a town in Patiala district in the Indian state of Punjab
    • Samana (Assembly constituency)
  • Samana Range, a mountain range in Pakistan near Peshawar
  • Samana, Guinea

People

  • Samana, Samaṇa, or śramaṇa, the name for certain wandering ascetics from the Indian subcontinent, one of whom was Gautama Buddha
  • Samana, the mother of Imam Ali al-Hadi
  • Natthaphong Samana (born 1984), Thai footballer

Other

  • Samaná Americans, a community of descendants of 19th century U.S. freed people of color in the Dominican Republic
  • Samaná English, spoken by the Samaná Americans
  • Samana (moth), a genus of moths in the family Geometridae
  • Samana hutia, an extinct species of rodent in the family Capromyidae
  • Samna (film), a 1974 Indian Marathi-language crime drama
  • Śramaṇa or samana, ascetic orders in ancient India including Jains and Buddhists
    • Sramanera, a Buddhist novice
    • Sramanachegas, 1st-century BC Indian philosopher and monk
    • Samanar or samana, term for Jains in Tamil Nadu


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