Etymology
This Hanno is called the Navigator to distinguish him from a number of other Carthaginians with this name, including the perhaps more prominent, though later, Hanno the Great (see Hanno for others of this name). The name Hanno (Annôn) means "merciful" or "mild" in Punic - similar to the Arabic name Hanan (حنان) with the same meaning, to the Hebrew name Hanan (חנן), still used in present-day Israel, and to the Syriac Hanna ("حنا"), still used in the Levant today.
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