"to be gracious"
The name Yohannes is commonly a male name from the "" origin that means "to be gracious".
Yohannes is the Amharic and Tigrinya form of the name that appears in English as John, and the same form is used in Armenian. It continues Greek Ioannes, which continues Hebrew Yochanan, a compound of a shortened divine name and a root meaning "to be gracious". The name is also attested in Ge'ez, the classical language of Ethiopia.
The pronunciation of Yohannes is yo-HAH-nis.
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