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nana

English

Etymology 1

An aphetic form of banana.

Pronunciation

  • enPR: nä?n?, IPA(key): /?n??n?/
  • Rhymes: -??n?

Noun

nana (plural nanas)

  1. (informal) a banana
  2. (Britain, slang) a fool

Etymology 2

Variant spelling of nanna.

Pronunciation

  • enPR: n?n??, IPA(key): /?næn?/
  • Rhymes: -æn?

Noun

nana (plural nanas)

  1. (informal, term of endearment) one's grandmother
  2. (informal) a nanny

Anagrams

  • A.A.N.N., Anna, anan, anna, naan

Asturian

Pronunciation

Adjective

nana

  1. feminine singular of nanu

Balinese

Romanization

nana

  1. Romanization of ??
  2. Romanization of ???

Bambara

Pronunciation

Verb

nana

  1. past tense of na

Catalan

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

nana

  1. feminine singular of nan

Noun

nana f (plural nanes)

  1. female equivalent of nan

Cebuano

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: na?na

Noun

nana

  1. (uncountable) pus

Champenois

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

nana

  1. (Sommepy) bread

References

  • Tarbé, Prosper (1851) Recherches sur l'histoire du langage et des patois de Champagne?[1] (in French), volume 1, Reims, page 168

Chickasaw

Alternative forms

  • nanna

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

Pronoun

nana

  1. something

Darkinjung

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

Pronoun

nana

  1. him (3rd person singular accusative)

Ese

Noun

nana

  1. war

Esperanto

Etymology

From nano (dwarf, noun) +? -a (adjective ending), ultimately from Latin n?nus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?nana/
  • Hyphenation: na?na
  • Rhymes: -ana

Adjective

nana (accusative singular nanan, plural nanaj, accusative plural nanajn)

  1. dwarf



Fijian

Etymology

From Proto-Central-Pacific *nana, from Proto-Oceanic *nanaq, from Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *nanaq, from Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *nanaq, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *nanaq, from Proto-Austronesian *naNaq.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?nana/

Noun

nana

  1. pus (fluid found in regions of infection)

French

Etymology

Diminutive form of Anne, Anna, popularised after Zola's 1880 novel Nana.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /na.na/

Noun

nana f (plural nanas)

  1. (slang) chick, bird (especially when attractive)
    Synonym: meuf

Further reading

  • “nana” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

  • Anna

Galician

Etymology

Probably with ultimate origin in baby talk.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?nana?/

Noun

nana f (plural nanas)

  1. (archaic) mother; mama

Derived terms

  • nai

References

  • “nana” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
  • “nana” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
  • “nana” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
  • “nana” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.

Garawa

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

Determiner

nana

  1. that
    Synonym: nanda

References

  • Ilana Mushin, A Grammar of (Western) Garrwa (2012)

Hadza

Etymology

naha +? -na

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /nana/

Adverb

nana

  1. there

Ilocano

Etymology

From Proto-Philippine [Term?], from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *nanaq, from Proto-Austronesian *naNaq.

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: na?na
  • IPA(key): /?nana/

Noun

nana

  1. pus (fluid found in regions of infection)

Isnag

Etymology

From Proto-Philippine [Term?], from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *nanaq, from Proto-Austronesian *naNaq.

Noun

nána

  1. pus (fluid found in regions of infection)

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?na.na/
  • Hyphenation: nà?na

Adjective

nana

  1. feminine singular of nano

Noun

nana f (plural nane)

  1. female equivalent of nano (dwarf)

Anagrams

  • Anna

Ivatan

Etymology

From Proto-Philippine [Term?], from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *nanaq, from Proto-Austronesian *naNaq.

Pronunciation

Noun

nana

  1. pus (fluid found in regions of infection)

Japanese

Romanization

nana

  1. R?maji transcription of ??

Krisa

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

Pronoun

nana

  1. I

Latin

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /?na?.na/, [?nä?nä]
  • (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?na.na/, [?n??n?]

Noun

n?na f (genitive n?nae); first declension

  1. dwarf (female)

Declension

First-declension noun.

Related terms

  • n?nus

References

  • nana in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • nana in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

Livonian

Alternative forms

  • nan? (Courland)

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *nenä.

Noun

nana

  1. nose

Lower Sorbian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?nana/

Noun

nana

  1. inflection of nan:
    1. genitive/accusative singular
    2. nominative dual

Malay

Etymology

Borrowed from Tamil ????? (a???).

Pronunciation

  • (Johor-Selangor) IPA(key): /nan?/
  • (Riau-Lingga) IPA(key): /nana/
  • Rhymes: -an?, -n?, -?

Noun

nana (Jawi spelling ????, plural nana-nana, informal 1st possessive nanaku, impolite 2nd possessive nanamu, 3rd possessive nananya)

  1. brother (older male sibling)

See also

  • abang
  • kakak
  • engko
  • uda

Marshallese

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

  • (phonetic) IPA(key): [n???n??], (enunciated) [n?? n??]
  • (phonemic) IPA(key): /n?æ?n?æ?/
  • Bender phonemes: {nahnah}

Adjective

nana

  1. bad
  2. wicked
  3. evil
  4. inedible

References

  • Marshallese–English Online Dictionary

Masbatenyo

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *nanaq, from Proto-Austronesian *naNaq.

Noun

nanà

  1. pus

Nias

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *nanaq, from Proto-Austronesian *naNaq.

Pronunciation

Noun

nana (mutated form nana)

  1. pus (fluid found in regions of infection)

Northern Paiute

Etymology

Compare Cahuilla náxanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /nana/

Noun

nana (plural naana)

  1. man

Northern Sami

Adjective

nana

  1. attributive of nanus

Oroqen

Noun

nana

  1. skin, hide

Portuguese

Noun

nana f (plural nanas)

  1. nap; a quick or little sleep
    Synonyms: soneca, cochilo

Verb

nana

  1. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present indicative of nanar
  2. second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) affirmative imperative of nanar

Sambali

Noun

nana

  1. aunt

Noun

nanà

  1. pus

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology 1

Of expressive/onomatopoetic origin.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /n??na/
  • Hyphenation: na?na
  • Rhymes: -??na

Noun

nána f (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

  1. mother
  2. grandmother

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish ????? (nane), from Arabic ???????? (na?na?), ????????? (na?n??).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /n??na/
  • Hyphenation: na?na
  • Rhymes: -??na

Noun

nána f (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

  1. mint
    Synonym: mètvica

References

  • “nana” in Hrvatski jezi?ni portal
  • “nana” in Hrvatski jezi?ni portal

Simeulue

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *nanaq, from Proto-Austronesian *naNaq.

Pronunciation

Noun

nana

  1. pus (fluid found in regions of infection)

Spanish

Etymology

Echoic/imitative.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?nana/, [?na.na]

Noun

nana f (plural nanas)

  1. (Latin America) nanny
    Synonym: niñera
  2. (colloquial) granny, grandmother
    Synonyms: abuela, yaya
  3. lullaby
    Synonym: canción de cuna

Derived terms

  • del año de la nana

Tagalog

Etymology 1

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *nanaq, from Proto-Austronesian *naNaq.

Noun

nanà (Baybayin spelling ??)

  1. pus; matter

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

nana (Baybayin spelling ??)

  1. aunt

Tahitian

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [nana]

Interjection

nana

  1. bye, goodbye

Toba Batak

Alternative forms

  • ??

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *nanaq, from Proto-Austronesian *naNaq.

Pronunciation

Noun

nana (Batak spelling ??)

  1. pus (fluid found in regions of infection)

Wanyi

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

Determiner

nana

  1. that

References

  • Mary Laughren, Rob Pensalfini, Tom Mylne, Accounting for verb-initial order in an Australian language, in Verb First: On the syntax of verb-initial languages (2005)

Waray-Waray

Noun

nanà

  1. pus; abscess

Yogad

Noun

naná

  1. pus; abscess

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napa

English

Etymology

From the regional and colloquial Japanese term ??? (nappa, leaves of any vegetable).

Noun

napa (countable and uncountable, plural napas)

  1. Brassica rapa subsp. pekinensis, a kind of Chinese cabbage.

Synonyms

  • celery cabbage

Anagrams

  • APAn, Pana, apan, paan

Finnish

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *napa, from Proto-Indo-European *h?neb?- (navel) either through Germanic or Baltic.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?n?p?/, [?n?p?]
  • Rhymes: -?p?
  • Syllabification: na?pa

Noun

napa

  1. (anatomy) navel
  2. pole (extreme of an axis; magnetic or electrical pole)
  3. pivot (that on which something turns)
  4. head (central part of propeller)
  5. (in compounds) polar

Declension

Synonyms

  • keskipiste

Derived terms

Anagrams

  • apan

Garo

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Verb

napa (intransitive)

  1. enter, go in, come in
  2. set (of the sun and moon)

See also

  • -nap-

Ingrian

Noun

napa

  1. navel

Miskito

Noun

napa

  1. tooth

Uma

Noun

napa

  1. (interrogative) what

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