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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)
- (informal) a banana
- (Britain, slang) a fool
Etymology 2
Variant spelling of nanna.
Pronunciation
- enPR: n?n??, IPA(key): /?næn?/
- Rhymes: -æn?
Noun
nana (plural nanas)
- (informal, term of endearment) one's grandmother
- (informal) a nanny
Anagrams
- A.A.N.N., Anna, anan, anna, naan
Asturian
Pronunciation
Adjective
nana
- feminine singular of nanu
Balinese
Romanization
nana
- Romanization of ??
- Romanization of ???
Bambara
Pronunciation
Verb
nana
- past tense of na
Catalan
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Central) IPA(key): /?na.n?/
- (Valencian) IPA(key): /?na.na/
Adjective
nana
- feminine singular of nan
Noun
nana f (plural nanes)
- female equivalent of nan
Cebuano
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: na?na
Noun
nana
- (uncountable) pus
Champenois
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun
nana
- (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
- something
Darkinjung
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Pronunciation
Pronoun
nana
- him (3rd person singular accusative)
Ese
Noun
nana
- 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)
- 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
- 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)
- (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)
- (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
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Pronunciation
Determiner
nana
- that
- Synonym: nanda
References
- Ilana Mushin, A Grammar of (Western) Garrwa (2012)
Hadza
Etymology
naha +? -na
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /nana/
Adverb
nana
- 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
- pus (fluid found in regions of infection)
Isnag
Etymology
From Proto-Philippine [Term?], from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *nanaq, from Proto-Austronesian *naNaq.
Noun
nána
- pus (fluid found in regions of infection)
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?na.na/
- Hyphenation: nà?na
Adjective
nana
- feminine singular of nano
Noun
nana f (plural nane)
- 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
- pus (fluid found in regions of infection)
Japanese
Romanization
nana
- R?maji transcription of ??
Krisa
Etymology
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Pronunciation
Pronoun
nana
- 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
- 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
- nose
Lower Sorbian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?nana/
Noun
nana
- inflection of nan:
- genitive/accusative singular
- 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)
- 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
- bad
- wicked
- evil
- inedible
References
- Marshallese–English Online Dictionary
Masbatenyo
Etymology
From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *nanaq, from Proto-Austronesian *naNaq.
Noun
nanà
- pus
Nias
Etymology
From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *nanaq, from Proto-Austronesian *naNaq.
Pronunciation
Noun
nana (mutated form nana)
- pus (fluid found in regions of infection)
Northern Paiute
Etymology
Compare Cahuilla náxanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /nana/
Noun
nana (plural naana)
- man
Northern Sami
Adjective
nana
- attributive of nanus
Oroqen
Noun
nana
- skin, hide
Portuguese
Noun
nana f (plural nanas)
- nap; a quick or little sleep
- Synonyms: soneca, cochilo
Verb
nana
- third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present indicative of nanar
- second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) affirmative imperative of nanar
Sambali
Noun
nana
- aunt
Noun
nanà
- pus
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology 1
Of expressive/onomatopoetic origin.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /n??na/
- Hyphenation: na?na
- Rhymes: -??na
Noun
nána f (Cyrillic spelling ?????)
- mother
- 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 ?????)
- 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
- pus (fluid found in regions of infection)
Spanish
Etymology
Echoic/imitative.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?nana/, [?na.na]
Noun
nana f (plural nanas)
- (Latin America) nanny
- Synonym: niñera
- (colloquial) granny, grandmother
- Synonyms: abuela, yaya
- 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 ??)
- pus; matter
Etymology 2
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Noun
nana (Baybayin spelling ??)
- 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
- bye, goodbye
Toba Batak
Alternative forms
- ??
Etymology
From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *nanaq, from Proto-Austronesian *naNaq.
Pronunciation
Noun
nana (Batak spelling ??)
- pus (fluid found in regions of infection)
Wanyi
Etymology
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Pronunciation
Determiner
nana
- 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
- pus; abscess
Yogad
Noun
naná
- pus; abscess
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nonna
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian nonna. Doublet of nun.
Noun
nonna (plural nonnas)
- (dialectal) grandmother
Coordinate terms
- nonno (“grandfather”)
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from Malay nyonya.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?n?.na?/
- Hyphenation: non?na
Noun
nonna f (plural nonna's, diminutive nonnaatje n)
- (historical) A (young) woman of mixed Indonesian/Malay and European descent.
- (historical) A young lady, a miss.
Related terms
- nonnie
Descendants
- Afrikaans: nonna
Italian
Etymology
From Late Latin nonna.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?n?n.na/
Noun
nonna f (plural nonne, masculine nonno)
- grandmother, granny
Derived terms
- bisnonna
- trisnonna
Coordinate terms
- nonno (“grandfather”)
Descendants
- ? English: nonna
- ? Greek: ???? (nóna)
- ? Italiot Greek: nunna
- ? Mòcheno: nu'na
Latin
Etymology
Feminine of nonnus.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /?non.na/, [?n?n?ä]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?non.na/, [?n?n??]
Noun
nonna f (genitive nonnae); first declension (Late Latin)
- nun
Declension
First-declension noun.
Related terms
- nonnus
Descendants
References
- nonna in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- nonna in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- nonna in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- nonna in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700?[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
Neapolitan
Etymology
From Late Latin nonna
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /?n?nn?/
Noun
nonna f (plural nnonne)
- grandmother
- beddy-bye
Norwegian Bokmål
Alternative forms
- nonnen
Noun
nonna m or f
- definite feminine singular of nonne
Norwegian Nynorsk
Noun
nonna f
- definite singular of nonne
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