The story
- Semitic · derived from
- Akkadian · derived fromAnat
- Classical Syriac · derived fromܐܢܐ
- Arabic · borrowed fromعَانَة
- English todayAnah
From Arabic عَانَة (ʕāna), from Classical Syriac ܐܢܐ, ultimately from Akkadian Anat under Assurnasirpal II and ⁽ᵈ⁾Ha-na-atᴷᴵ in the Old Babylonian Period, sometimes connected to worship of the war goddess Anat, whose name is probably Semitic.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.