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English

Etymology

Borrowed from Hawaiian n?n?, which is imitative of the bird’s call.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?ne?ne?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?ne??ne?/
• Hyphenation: ne?ne

Noun

nene (plural nenes or nene)

1. The Hawaiian goose, Branta sandvicensis, which was designated the state bird of Hawaii in 1957.

Alternative forms

• n?n?

Synonyms

• Hawaiian goose
• n?n? goose

Translations

Further reading

• nene (bird) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• en- -en

Abau

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /n?n?/

Noun

nene

1. eye

Baré

Noun

nene

1. tongue

   nunene — my tongue

   nenehei — a tongue (any tongue in general)

References

• Alexandra Y[urievna] Aikhenvald (2012) The Languages of the Amazon, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, ?ISBN.

Chuj

Noun

nene

1. baby

References

• Jessica Coon, Unergatives, antipassives, and roots in Chuj (2016), p. 24

Crimean Tatar

Noun

nene

1. grandmother

Mauritian Creole

Etymology

From French nez

Noun

nene

1. nose

References

• Baker, Philip & Hookoomsing, Vinesh Y. 1987. Dictionnaire de créole mauricien. Morisyen – English – Français

Romanian

Alternative forms

• nea

Etymology

Cf. Bulgarian ???? (nenja), Serbo-Croatian nena.

Noun

nene m (uncountable)

1. (popular, familiar) Term used by children or young people to address an older man, especially an uncle.
2. (familiar) Term to address someone used in general to express disapproval, or surprise, sometimes satisfaction, etc.

Synonyms

• neic?, bade

See also

• unchi

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?nene/, [?ne.ne]

Noun

nene m (plural nenes, feminine nena, feminine plural nenas)

1. baby, young child

   Coordinate term: niño

2. (colloquial) babe, baby (term of endearment for a male)

Hyponyms

• nene de mamá (“mama's boy, momma's boy”) (colloquial)

Further reading

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

Swahili

Pronunciation

Adjective

-nene (declinable)

1. fat

Usage notes

Only used of people; for animals, use -nono.

Inflection

Tagalog

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n?n??/

Noun

nenè

1. appellation for a little girl
2. younger sister

Turkish

Noun

nene (definite accusative neneyi, plural neneler)

1. (colloquial) grandmother

Declension

Synonyms

• nine

English

Etymology 1

From Old French sene.

Alternative forms

• seene, senie

Noun

sene (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) Senna.

Etymology 2

From Samoan sene, in turn from English cent.

Noun

sene (plural senes)

1. A unit of currency equivalent to a hundredth of a Samoan tala.

Anagrams

• Nees, eens, esne, seen, snee

Atong (India)

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-ni-s (“seven”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?ene/

Numeral

sene (Bengali script ????)

1. seven

Synonyms

• seben
• saat

References

• van Breugel, Seino. 2015. Atong-English dictionary, second edition. Available online: https://www.academia.edu/487044/Atong_English_Dictionary.

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /se?n?/, [?se?n?]
• Homophone: scene

Etymology 1

From Old Norse sina, sin (“sinew”), from Proto-Germanic *senaw?, cognate with Swedish sena, English sinew, German Sehne, Dutch zenuw. The word possiblyt goes back to Proto-Indo-European *snéh?wr?, which is also the source of Latin nervus, Ancient Greek ?????? (neûron).

Noun

sene c (singular definite senen, plural indefinite sener)

1. sinew, tendon

Inflection

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Adjective

sene

1. definite singular of sen
2. plural of sen

Friulian

Noun

sene f (plural senis)

1. scene

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin senem, accusative case form of senex, from Proto-Indo-European *sénos (“old”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s?.ne/
• Rhymes: -?ne
• Hyphenation: sè?ne

Noun

sene m (plural seni)

1. (obsolete, poetic) An old man
   • Synonyms: vecchio, vegliardo
   • Antonyms: giovane, giovanotto

Related terms

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?se.ne/, [?s??n?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?se.ne/, [?s??n?]

Noun

sene

1. ablative singular of senex

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

Adjective

sene

1. definite singular of sen
2. plural of sen

Etymology 2

From Old Norse sina or sin

Alternative forms

• sen

Noun

sene f or m (definite singular sena or senen, indefinite plural sener, definite plural senene)

1. (anatomy) a tendon

Derived terms

• akillessene

Etymology 3

Noun

sene m (definite singular senen, indefinite plural sener, definite plural senene)

1. alternative form of scene

References

• “sene” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From Old Norse sina, sin, from Proto-Germanic *senaw?, from Proto-Indo-European *sn?h?wr? (“sinew, tendon”). Cognates include English sinew.

Alternative forms

• sen
• (non-standard since 2012) sena

Noun

sene f (definite singular sena, indefinite plural sener, definite plural senene)

1. (anatomy) a tendon

Derived terms

• akillessene

Etymology 2

Noun

sene f or m (definite singular senen, indefinite plural senar, definite plural senane)

1. alternative form of scene

References

• “sene” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Anagrams

• ense

Pali

Alternative forms

Noun

sene

1. inflection of sena (“hawk”):
   1. locative singular
   2. accusative plural
2. vocative singular of sen? (“army”)

Samoan

Etymology

From English cent

Noun

sene

1. a hundredth of a Samoan tala
2. cent; penny

Descendants

• ? English: sene

See also

• t?l?

Sardinian

Alternative forms

• seneche, seneghe

Etymology

From Latin senem, accusative case form of senex, from Proto-Indo-European *sénos (“old”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sene/

Adjective

sene m or f (masculine and feminine plural senes)

1. old, aged

   Synonyms: betzu, begru

Slovak

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?sene]

Noun

sene n

1. locative singular of seno

Swedish

Adjective

sene

1. absolute definite natural masculine form of sen.

Anagrams

• enes, ense

Tauya

Noun

sene

1. stone

References

• Lorna MacDonald, A Grammar of Tauya

Turkish

Etymology

From Arabic ?????? (sana). Cognate with Uzbek sana, Turkmen sene.

Noun

sene (objective definite seneyi)

1. year

Synonyms

• y?l