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English

Etymology

From Spanish mona (“monkey”)

Noun

mona (plural monas)

1. Cercopithecus mona, a West African monkey.

Further reading

• Cercopithecus mona on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Cercopithecus mona on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

Anagrams

• Amon, Mano, NOMA, Noam, Oman, Onam, mano, maon, moan, noma

Bunama

Etymology

From Proto-Oceanic *moñak, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *m?ñak.

Noun

mona

1. pudding boiled in clay pot

Related terms

• mamonana (“fat”)

Cornish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?mo?n?]

Noun

mona m (plural monyes)

1. money, cash, change

Synonyms

• arhans

Esperanto

Etymology

From mono +? -a.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mona/
• Hyphenation: mo?na
• Rhymes: -ona

Adjective

mona (accusative singular monan, plural monaj, accusative plural monajn)

1. (money) pecuniary, monetary

Hawaiian

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *mona, from Proto-Oceanic *moñak, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *m?ñak.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mo.na/, [?mon?]

Noun

mona

1. fat (specialized animal tissue)

Adjective

mona

1. fat (carrying a larger than normal amount of fat on one's body)
2. fertile, rich (as soil)
3. fruitful

Derived terms

• momona
• monamona (“dessert”)

References

• “mona” in the Hawaiian Dictionary, Revised and Enlarged Edition, University of Hawaii Press, 1986

Italian

Etymology 1

From Spanish mono, of Arabic origin.

Noun

mona f (plural mone)

1. (obsolete) monkey

Etymology 2

Uncertain.

Noun

mona f (plural mone)

1. (regional, chiefly Triveneto, vulgar, figuratively) cunt, pussy

Noun

mona m (invariable)

1. (regional, chiefly Triveneto, vulgar, derogatory) idiot, silly, dupe

Middle English

Noun

mona

1. (Early Middle English) Alternative form of mone (“moon”)

Murui Huitoto

Etymology

From Proto-Huitoto-Ocaina *móna.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?m?.na]
• Hyphenation: mo?na

Noun

mona

1. sky

References

• Katarzyna Izabela Wojtylak (2017) A grammar of Murui (Bue): a Witotoan language of Northwest Amazonia.?^[1], Townsville: James Cook University press (PhD thesis), page 127

Old English

Alternative forms

• m?ne

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *m?n?, from Proto-Germanic *m?nô, from Proto-Indo-European *m?h?n?s, probably a suffixed form of an ultimate root *meh?- (“to measure”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mo?.n?/

Noun

m?na m

1. moon
   • late 10th century, Ælfric, On the Seasons of the Year

Declension

Derived terms

Descendants

• Middle English: mone, moone, mon, moyn, monæ, mona
  • English: moon
    • Sranan Tongo: mun
    • Tok Pisin: mun
    • Torres Strait Creole: mun
  • Scots: muin, mone, monne, moon, moune, mowne, moyn, moyne, mune, mwne
  • Yola: mond

Old Frisian

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *m?n?, from Proto-Germanic *m?nô, from Proto-Indo-European *m?h?n?s (“moon, month”). Cognates include Old English m?na, Old High German m?no, Old Norse máni and Gothic ???????????????? (m?na).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m??na/

Noun

m?na m

1. moon

Descendants

• North Frisian:

  Föhr-Amrum: muun

  Mooring: moune

• Saterland Frisian: Moune
• West Frisian: moanne

References

• Bremmer, Rolf H. (2009) An Introduction to Old Frisian: History, Grammar, Reader, Glossary, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, ?ISBN

Pali

Alternative forms

Noun

mona n

1. wisdom
2. self-possession
3. silence

Penrhyn

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *mona, from Proto-Oceanic *moñak, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *m?ñak.

Verb

mona

1. (stative) be sweet

Related terms

• momona (“fat”)
• monamona (“lollipop, candy”)

Pileni

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *mona, from Proto-Oceanic *moñak, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *m?ñak.

Noun

mona

1. pudding

Related terms

• momona (“oily, greasy”)
• mnamona (“fat, grease”)

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mo.na/
• Hyphenation: mo?na

Noun

mona f (plural monas)

1. a female monkey or ape

   Synonyms: macaca, símia

2. (vulgar) drunkenness

   Synonym: bebedeira

3. rag doll

   Synonyms: marafona, matrafona

4. the state of being upset, bothered or annoyed

   Synonyms: aborrecimento, amuamento, amuo

5. (informal) vagina (woman's genitalia)

   For synonyms, see here.

6. a goat lacking one of its horns
7. (bullfighting) armor used by the bullfighter under his shorts

Sinaugoro

Etymology

From Proto-Oceanic *moñak, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *m?ñak.

Noun

mona

1. fat, grease

Sotho

Adverb

mona

1. here; proximal demonstrative adverb.

Spanish

Etymology

From mono (“monkey”). Compare English monkey.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mona/, [?mo.na]

Noun

mona f (plural monas)

1. drunkenness, fuddle

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:borrachera

Derived terms

• amonarse
• dormir la mona

Noun

mona f (plural monas, masculine mono, masculine plural monos)

1. female equivalent of mono; female monkey
2. copycat
3. (Mexico, Chile) doll, puppet
4. (Colombia) blonde woman

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? English: mona
• ? Italian: mona

Adjective

mona f sg

1. feminine singular of mono

Further reading

• “mona” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

Tahitian

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *mona, from Proto-Oceanic *moñak, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *m?ñak.

Adjective

mona

1. sweet

Related terms

• momona
• monamona

References

• Yves Lemaître, Lexique du tahitien contemporain (Current Tahitian lexicon), 1995.
• “mona” in Dictionnaire en ligne Tahitien/Français (Online Tahitian–French Dictionary), by the Tahitian Academy.

Volapük

Noun

mona

1. genitive singular of mon

English

Etymology

Said by Century to have originally been applied to mud formed by Pichincha near Quito and to derive from a South American language.

Noun

moya (uncountable)

1. (obsolete, geology) Flowing mud associated with a volcanic eruption (especially in South America), formed when snow or a lake near a volcano is disrupted, or when rain or steam mixes with soil or ash during an eruption. [from 1800s–1930s]
   • 1832, Samuel Hibbert, History of the Extinct Volcanos of the Basin of Neuwied, on the Lower Rhine, page 40:

     These are the principal tufas indicative of the boiling tufaceous mud, or moya, which once filled, even to an overflow, the valley of Rieden.

Synonyms

• mud lava, volcanic mud, tufaceous mud

Further reading

• moya in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• moya in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• William Dwight Whitney and Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1914) , “moya”, in The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language, volume III (Hoop–O), revised edition, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., OCLC 1078064371.

Anagrams

• Amoy, Mayo, mayo

Buruwai

Noun

moya

1. water

Further reading

• Cornelis L. Voorhoeve, Languages of Irian Jaya Checklist (1975, Canberra: Pacific Linguistics)

Fanagalo

Etymology

From Zulu umoya, from Proto-Bantu *m??jòjà, a variant of Proto-Bantu *m??jòjò (“life, spirit”).

Noun

moya

1. air
2. wind

Lala (South Africa)

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *m??jòjà, a variant of Proto-Bantu *m??jòjò (“life, spirit”).

Noun

môya

1. wind

Northern Sotho

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *m??jòjà, a variant of Proto-Bantu *m??jòjò (“life, spirit”).

Noun

moya

1. wind

Rawang

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?(?).ja?/

Noun

moya

1. colour.

Synonyms

• nv?mya

Sotho

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *m??jòjà, a variant of Proto-Bantu *m??jòjò (“life, spirit”).

Noun

moya 3 (uncountable)

1. wind

Tsonga

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *m??jòjà, a variant of Proto-Bantu *m??jòjò (“life, spirit”).

Noun

moya 3

1. wind