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English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?kæn?/
• Rhymes: -æn?

Etymology 1

From Latin canna (“reed”), from Ancient Greek ?????? (kánn?, “reed”), from Akkadian ???????????????? (qanûm). Cognates Biblical Hebrew ?????? (qané), Aramaic ???????? (qany?), Classical Syriac ????? (qanya), and English cane, canon, cannon, canal, and channel.

Wikispecies

Noun

canna (plural cannas)

1. Any member of the genus Canna of tropical plants with large leaves and often showy flowers.
   • 2000, JG Ballard, Super-Cannes, Fourth Estate 2011, p. 7:

     A palisade of Canary palms formed an honour guard along the verges, while beds of golden cannas flamed from the central reservation.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Scots cannae.

Contraction

canna

1. (Scotland, Jamaican) Contraction of can not; cannot.

Translations

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Italian canna. Doublet of cane.

Noun

canna (plural cannas)

1. (historical) A measure of length in Italy, varying from six to seven feet.

French

Pronunciation

• Homophones: cannas, cannât

Verb

canna

1. third-person singular past historic of canner

Irish

Etymology

From Middle Irish cann, canna (“can, vessel”), borrowed from Old English canne.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kan???/

Noun

canna m (genitive singular canna, nominative plural cannaí)

1. can

Declension

Derived terms

Mutation

Further reading

• "canna" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “cann”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Entries containing “canna” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
• Entries containing “canna” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

Italian

Etymology

From Latin canna, from Ancient Greek ?????? (kánn?, “reed”), from Akkadian ???????????????? (qanûm, “reed”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kan.na/
• Rhymes: -anna
• Hyphenation: càn?na

Noun

canna f (plural canne)

1. cane
2. barrel (of a gun)

3. (fishing) rod

4. tube, pipe (on a pump organ or a trachea)

5. chute
6. (slang) joint

   Synonym: spinello

7. (historical) traditional unit of measure

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? English: canna

Related terms

Verb

canna

1. third-person singular present indicative of cannare
2. second-person singular imperative of cannare

Jamaican Creole

Alternative forms

• cyaan

Etymology

From English cannot.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kan?/
• Hyphenation: ca?nna

Verb

canna

1. (rare) Alternative form of cyaan.

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ?????? (kánn?, “reed”), from Akkadian ???????????????? (qanûm, “reed”). Compare Biblical Hebrew ?????? (qané), Aramaic ???????? (qany?) or ??????? (qany?) and Classical Syriac ??????? (qanyo).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?kan.na/, [?kän?ä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?kan.na/, [?k?n??]

Noun

canna f (genitive cannae); first declension

1. A reed, cane.

   Synonyms: calamus, harund?

2. (by extension) Anything made of reed or cane; reed-pipe, flute; gondola; windpipe.

   Synonyms: harund?, t?bia

Declension

First-declension noun.

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

References

• canna in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• canna in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• canna in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• canna in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• canna in Georges, Karl Ernst; Georges (1913–1918) Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, Hahnsche Buchhandlung

Portuguese

Noun

canna f (plural cannas)

1. Obsolete spelling of cana

Scots

Etymology

can +? -na

Verb

canna

1. Orkney form of cannae (“cannot”)

Sicilian

Etymology

From Latin canna, from Ancient Greek ?????? (kánn?, “reed”), from Akkadian ???????????????? (qanûm, “reed”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ka?n.n??/, [?kä?n?.n???]
• Hyphenation: càn?na

Noun

canna f (plural canni)

1. reed, stick, rattan; a cane, rod, instrument, or other item made out of such material
2. barrel (as of a gun or cannon)
3. tube, pipe (as on a pump organ or a trachea)

Derived terms

• cannolu, cannoli
• cannuolu, cannuoli

English

Pronunciation

• (preconsonantal)
  • (US) IPA^(key): /?w?.n?/, /?w?.n?/
• (prevocalic)
  • (US) IPA^(key): /?w?.nu/, /?w?.nu/
• Rhymes: -?n?

Contraction

wanna

1. (informal) Represents a contracted pronunciation of want to.

   I wanna go home!

2. (informal) Represents a contracted pronunciation of want a.

   I wanna puppy!

Usage notes

The spoken contractions are widespread in everyday informal speech. The written contractions are inappropriate outside very casual writing or transcription of casual speech. They are common in transcriptions of pop song lyrics.

Wanna is less commonly and less regularly used as a contraction of wants to and wants a.

Derived terms

• wanna contraction

See also

• gonna
• gotta

Afar

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /w?n?n?/

Noun

wanná f 

1. heart

References

• Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)?^[1], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis), page 74

Old High German

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin vannus.

Noun

wanna f

1. tub

Descendants

• Middle High German: [Term?]
  • German: Wanne
    • ? Estonian: vann
    • ? Russian: ?????? (vánna) (see there for further descendants)
  • Yiddish: ??????? (vane)

Polish

Etymology

Borrowing from early Modern High German Wanne or its Middle High German etymon.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?van.na/, [?van?a]

Noun

wanna f

1. bath, bathtub

Declension

Derived terms

• (adjective) wannowy

Further reading

• wanna in Polish dictionaries at PWN