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The term Samaná or Samana may mean several things:

Places

Dominican Republic

Other

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


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