Ariana (name) Ariana (name) Ariana is a feminine Persian name, popular in many languages. Arianna and Ariane are the two most common variations. The name "Ariana" has the several possible following origins. Ariana, the Latinized form of (Greek: ἡ 'Αρειανή/Arianē), was also a general geographical term used by some Greek and Roman authors of antiquity for an extensive territory in Central Asia, east of Persia and west of India, broadly covering modern Pakistan and Afghanistan. The name of Iran (Persia) originates from the Sanskrit word Aryānā (Ariana) meaning "The Land of the Aryans". The name "Arianna" is also the Latinized form of
Simple past progressive. Regular verbs form the simple past end"-ed"; however there are a few hundred irregular verbs with different forms. For details see . Most verbs have a single form of the simple past, independent of the person or number of the subject (there is no addition of "-s" for the third person singular as in the simple present). However, the copula verb "be" has two past tense forms: "was" for the first and third persons singular, and "were" in other instances. The form "were" can also be used in place of "was" in conditional clauses and the like; for information