different between kina vs kinda

English

Etymology 1

From Tolai kina (“oyster or clamshell”)

Noun

kina (plural kinas or kina)

1. The national currency of Papua New Guinea, divided into 100 toea.

Etymology 2

Maori kina

Noun

kina (plural kinas)

1. Evechinus chloroticus, a sea urchin endemic to New Zealand.

Anagrams

• Akin, Inka, Kian, Naik, akin, kain, naik

Ainu

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?ì?ná/

Noun

kina (Kana spelling ??)

1. grass

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?k?na]
• Rhymes: -?na
• Hyphenation: ki?na
• Homophone: kyna

Noun

kina

1. inflection of kino:
   1. genitive singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative plural

Anagrams

• inka, Inka
• nika

Esperanto

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kina/
• Hyphenation: kin?a
• Rhymes: -ina

Adjective

kina (accusative singular kinan, plural kinaj, accusative plural kinajn)

1. cinematic

Fijian

Adverb

kina

1. therein, herein
2. because of, for the sake of, thereby, hereby, herewith
3. therefore (at the end of a statement or sentence, preceded by o koya o qo)

Finnish

Etymology

Unknown

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kin?/, [?kin?]
• Rhymes: -in?
• Syllabification: ki?na

Noun

kina

1. squabble

Declension

Derived terms

• kinata

Anagrams

• Akin, Inka, Kain, inka, kani

Greenlandic

Etymology

From Proto-Inuit *kina, from Proto-Eskimo *ki-na.

Pronoun

kina

1. who

Usage notes

This word will cause indicative intonation in the sentence it is used, but not if used in isolation.

References

Inuktitut

Pronoun

kina (syllabics ??)

1. (interrogative) who (in a question)

Karitiâna

Noun

kina

1. mammal

Maori

Noun

kina

1. sea urchin

Paiwan

Etymology

Noun

kina

1. mother (female (human) who parents a child, gives birth to a baby, or is pregnant)

Synonyms

• ina

Quechua

Noun

kina

1. Cinchona bark

Declension

Descendants

• English: quinine
• Spanish: quina

Swahili

Pronunciation

Noun

kina (ki-vi class, plural vina)

1. depth (vertical distance below a surface)
2. rhyme

Verb

kina

1. ki-vi class subject inflected singular present affirmative of -wa na

Tok Pisin

Noun

kina

1. kina
2. a kind of seashell

English

Etymology 1

Written form of a reduction of kind of.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /?ka?nd?/
• (also) IPA^(key): /?ka?n?/

Alternative forms

• kinder

Adverb

kinda (not comparable)

1. (colloquial) kind of; somewhat

   I kinda hafta do this right now.

   That's kinda funny.

   • 2006, Ron Hall, Denver Moore, Lynn Vincent, Same Kind of Different As Me, page 13,

     In those days, flour sacks was kinda purty. They might come printed up with flowers on em, or birds.

   • 2010, Eric Anthony Galvez DPT CSCS, Reversal: When a Therapist Becomes a Patient, page 37,

     The facial expression on my mask kinda looks like Han Solo in the carbonite...

Synonyms

• sorta

Contraction

kinda (plural kindsa)

1. (colloquial) Contraction of kind of.
   • 2008, Jacob Curtis, The Song Itself: A Gnostic Remembrance, page 68,

     What kinda music do ya want ta play? Do ya want volume or somethin' more subtle?

Derived terms

• some kinda

Interjection

kinda

1. Yes in some respects but no in other respects.

Etymology 2

After the town of Kinda, Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?nd?/

Noun

kinda (plural kindas)

1. A subspecies of baboon, Papio cynocephalus kindae, primarily found in Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Zambia, and possibly western Tanzania.
   • 2006, The National Geographic Magazine, Volume 212, Issues 4-6, page 18,

     In the wild, when a baboon called a kinda pairs with a chacma or yellow baboon, their progeny is still a baboon — but it's a hybrid of interest to Society grantees Jane Phillips-Conroy and Clifford Jolly, who are tracking gene flow in Zambia's South Luangwa National Park.

Anagrams

• Adkin, Dakin, Dinka

Romani

Noun

kinda f

1. kitchen