Yanan adjective 1noun 1forms 1 adjective1 •(rare) Of or pertaining to the Yana people of California or their language.[…] Yanan (or Noje, or Nozi) linguistic stock of North American Indians, whose former habitat was bounded on the east by a mountain range a little west of Lassen Butte, […] — 1920 noun1 •(rare) Synonym of Yana (“(member of) a particular North American Indian people”).Yanan or Nozi, Lassen Butte and Round Mountain. Pujunan or Maidu, east bank of Sacramento river. — 1891 formsYanans