different between mantis vs nina

English

Alternative forms

• mantid

Etymology

From New Latin mantis, from Ancient Greek ?????? (mántis, “soothsayer”). Distant doublet of mind via Proto-Indo-European *méntis.

Pronunciation

Noun

mantis (plural mantises or mantes)

1. Any of various large insects of the order Mantodea that catch insects or other small animals with their powerful forelegs.
2. A green colour, like that of many mantises.

Synonyms

• (insect): rearhorse

Derived terms

• praying mantis

Translations

Anagrams

• Mastin, Matins, Tamsin, manist, matins, santim, stamin, tamins

Spanish

Noun

mantis f (plural mantis)

1. mantis

Derived terms

English

Etymology

From the name Nina, taken from the cartoonist Al Hirschfield's habit of hiding his daughter Nina's name in his drawings.

Noun

nina (plural ninas)

1. A hidden message revealed in the completed grid of a crossword.
   • 2014, Alan Connor, The Crossword Century: 100 Years of Witty Wordplay, Ingenious Puzzles, and Linguistic Mischief, Penguin ?ISBN

     Other “personal” ninas are happier and subtler: birthday wishes to loved ones, which, ultimately, have only one intended reader

Anagrams

• Inna, inna

Aymara

Noun

nina

1. fire

Catalan

Alternative forms

• (child): nena

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /?ni.n?/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /?ni.na/

Noun

nina f (plural nines, masculine nin)

1. (anatomy) pupil
2. (dialectal) girl, female child

Synonyms

• (pupil): pupil·la

Dalmatian

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *ninna, a nursery or infantile word.

Noun

nina f

1. mother

Estonian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *nenä.

Noun

nina (genitive nina, partitive nina)

1. (anatomy) nose
2. tip

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Fanagalo

Etymology

From Zulu nina.

Pronoun

nina

1. you, you all; second-person singular pronoun.

Japanese

Romanization

nina

1. R?maji transcription of ??

Kamano

Noun

nina

1. Alternative form of ni (water)

References

• The Papuan Languages of New Guinea (1986, ?ISBN

Miskito

Noun

nina

1. name

Quechua

Noun

nina

1. fire for cooking, candle, match

Declension

See also

• ninay
• ninayay

Sasak

Noun

nina

1. woman, female

References

• Dictionary of the Sasak language of Lombok, with Indonesian and English (1995)

Southern Ndebele

Etymology

From Proto-Nguni *niná.

Pronoun

niná

1. you, you all; second-person plural absolute pronoun.

Swahili

Pronunciation

Verb

nina

1. first-person singular present affirmative of -wa na

Xhosa

Etymology

From Proto-Nguni *niná.

Pronoun

niná

1. you, you all; second-person plural absolute pronoun.

Zulu

Etymology

From Proto-Nguni *niná.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ni?ná/

Pronoun

niná

1. you, you all; second-person plural absolute pronoun.

Inflection

References

• C. M. Doke; B. W. Vilakazi (1972) , “nina”, in Zulu-English Dictionary, ?ISBN: “nina (6.3)”