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
Name of Greece it lasted almost 1000 years longer than the Western Roman Empire, Persians, Arabs, and Turks, all in the East, used and sometimes still use terms from "Rhomania" or "Rome", such as "Rûm", to refer to its land or people. The first major form of names derives from the Latin "Graecus" and "Graecia" or their equivalent forms in Greek whence the former derive themselves. These terms have fallen out of use in Greek. The second major form, used in many languages and in which the common root is "yun" or "ywn", is borrowed from the Greek name "Ionia", the Ionian tribe