different between river vs cana

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English ryver, river, rivere, from Anglo-Norman rivere, from Old French riviere, from Vulgar Latin *r?p?ria (“riverbank, seashore, river”), from Latin r?p?rius (“of a riverbank”), from Latin r?pa (“river bank”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?reyp- (“to scratch, tear, cut”). Displaced native Old English ?a.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???v?/
• (General American) enPR: r?v'?r, IPA^(key): /???v?/
• Rhymes: -?v?(?)
• Hyphenation: riv?er

Noun

river (plural rivers)

1. A large and often winding stream which drains a land mass, carrying water down from higher areas to a lower point, oftentimes ending in another body of water, such as an ocean or in an inland sea.
   • 1908, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

     By the side of the river he trotted as one trots, when very small, by the side of a man who holds one spell-bound by exciting stories; and when tired at last, he sat on the bank, while the river still chattered on to him, a babbling procession of the best stories in the world, sent from the heart of the earth to be told at last to the insatiable sea.

2. Any large flow of a liquid in a single body.

4. (poker) The last card dealt in a hand.
5. (typography) A visually undesirable effect of white space running down a page, caused by spaces between words on consecutive lines happening to coincide.

Usage notes

• As with the names of lakes and mountains, the names of rivers are typically formed by adding the word before or after the unique term: the River Thames or the Yangtze River. Generally speaking, names formed using adjectives or attributives see river added to the end, as with the Yellow River. It is less common to add river before names than it is with lakes, but many of the rivers of Britain are written that way, as with the River Severn; indeed, British English tends to use "River X" in such cases while American, South African, Australian and New Zealand English use "X River". The former derives from the earlier but now uncommon form river of ~: the 19th century River of Jordan is now usually simply the River Jordan.
• It is common to preface the proper names of rivers with the article the.
• Concerning the reference of its coordinate terms, some people say: you can step over a brook, jump over a creek, wade across a stream, and swim across a river.

Derived terms

Related terms

• tributary (noun)

Descendants

• ? Finnish: river (“river (in poker)”)
• Sranan Tongo: liba

Translations

See river/translations § Noun.

See also

• fluvial
• Category:Rivers

Verb

river (third-person singular simple present rivers, present participle rivering, simple past and past participle rivered)

1. (poker) To improve one’s hand to beat another player on the final card in a poker game.

   Johnny rivered me by drawing that ace of spades.

Etymology 2

rive +? -er

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??a?v?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /??a?v?/
• Rhymes: -a?v?(?)

Noun

river (plural rivers)

1. One who rives or splits.

References

Further reading

• river in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Danish

Noun

river c

1. indefinite plural of rive

Verb

river

1. present of rive

Finnish

Etymology

< English river

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ri?er/, [?ri?e?r]
• Rhymes: -i?er
• Syllabification: ri?ver

Noun

river

1. (poker) river (fifth communal card in Texas hold'em)

Declension

Synonyms

• viides avokortti, viimeinen avokortti

See also

• joki (“river”)

French

Etymology

From a Germanic source (compare Danish rive).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?i.ve/

Verb

river

1. to drive/set a rivet

Conjugation

Related terms

• rive

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• virer

Latin

Verb

r?ver

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of r?v?

Middle English

Noun

river

1. Alternative form of ryver

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

river m or f

1. indefinite plural of rive

Verb

river

1. present of rive

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

river f

1. indefinite plural of rive

Verb

river

1. (non-standard since 2012) present tense of riva and rive

Swedish

Verb

river

1. present tense of riva.

Anagrams

• revir, virre

Catalan

Etymology

Latin canna.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

cana f (plural canes)

1. Archaic form of canya.
2. (historical) unit of length of eight pams (“handspans”); ~1.60m

Derived terms

• acanar
• trescanar

Related terms

• canya

Further reading

• “cana” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
• “cana” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.

Classical Nahuatl

Adverb

cana

1. Alternative spelling of canah

Galician

Etymology 1

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese, from Latin canna (“reed”), from Ancient Greek ????? (kánna, “reed”), from Akkadian ???? (qanû, “reed”), from Sumerian ???????? (gi.na).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kana?/

Noun

cana f (plural canas)

1. (botany) cane, reed (any plant with a fibrous, elongated stalk, such as a sugarcane or bamboo)
   1. the stem of such plants
   2. (botany) giant reed (Arundo donax)
   3. (botany) sugarcane (Saccharum officinarum, tropical grass from which sugar is extracted)

      Synonym: cana de azucre

   4. fishing rod

      Synonym: cana de pescar

   5. a slender twig
      • c1350, Kelvin M. Parker (ed.), Historia Troyana. Santiago: Instituto Padre Sarmiento, page 194:

        outros que nõ an boca senõ tã estreyta [como] h?a cana de avelão

        and others that almost have no mouth, but one so narrow as a hazel twig

      Synonym: cimbra

   6. (nautical) tiller
   7. shaft
   8. shaft of a boot

Derived terms

• cana de azucre
• cana de bafordos
• cana de pescar
• cana do óso
• canal
• canedo
• canela
• cano
• cañoto

Related terms

• canavela

Etymology 2

From Latin canus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kana?/

Noun

cana f (plural canas)

1. white or gray hair

Adjective

cana

1. feminine singular of cano

References

• “cana” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “cana” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “cana” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “cana” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “cana” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kan??/

Etymology 1

From Middle Irish cana.

Noun

cana m (genitive singular canann)

1. cub, whelp
2. bardic poet of the fourth order

Declension

Synonyms

• (young animal): coileán, samhairle
• (poet): ánradh (“second-order bard”), clí (“third-order bard”)

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

cana

1. present subjunctive of can

Mutation

Further reading

• "cana" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “1 cana”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Italian

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

Clipping of canapa (“hemp”).

Noun

cana f (plural cane)

1. (rare) marijuana cigarette, joint

   Synonym: spinello

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Adjective

cana

1. feminine singular of cano

Anagrams

• anca, ANCA

Latin

Adjective

c?na

1. inflection of c?nus:
   1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
   2. nominative/vocative/accusative neuter plural

Adjective

c?n?

1. ablative feminine singular of c?nus

References

• cana in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• cana in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
• cana in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly

Middle Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish cano, cana, probably from Latin canis (“dog”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kan?/

Noun

cana m

1. cub

   Synonym: cuilén

2. puppy

   Synonym: cuilén

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• Scottish Gaelic: cana
• Irish: cana

Mutation

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “1 cana”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• canna (superseded)

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?k?.na/, /?k?.n?/
• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /?k?.n?/
• Hyphenation: ca?na

Etymology 1

From Latin canna (“reed”), from Ancient Greek ????? (kánna, “reed”), from Akkadian ???? (qanû, “reed”), from Sumerian ???????? (gi.na).

Noun

cana f (plural canas)

1. (botany) cane, reed (any plant with a fibrous, elongated stalk, such as a sugarcane or bamboo)
2. (botany) sugarcane (Saccharum officinarum, tropical grass from which sugar is extracted)

   Synonym: cana-de-açúcar

3. (botany) canna (any plant of the genus Canna)
4. cane (walking stick)

   Synonym: bengala

5. (Brazil, informal) cachaça (Brazilian rum made of sugarcane)

   Synonyms: aguardente, aguardente de cana, cachaça, (Rio Grande do Sul) canha, pinga

Derived terms

• caninha, canazinha (diminutives)

Related terms

Etymology 2

Unknown, but compare Rioplatense Spanish cana.

Noun

cana f (plural canas)

1. (Brazil, slang) jail; prison

   Synonyms: cadeia, prisão, (Brazil, slang) xadrez

Noun

cana m, f (plural canas)

1. (Brazil, slang) cop; police officer

   Synonyms: polícia, policial, (slang) tira

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?kana]

Noun

cana f

1. definite nominative/accusative singular of can?

Scottish Gaelic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?an?/

Etymology 1

According to MacBain, apparently related to sense 2 (“wolf pup”) by transference.

Noun

cana m (genitive singular cana, plural canachan)

1. killer whale, orca, grampus

   Synonym: mada-chuain

2. porpoise

   Synonyms: pèileag, puthag

3. sturgeon

   Synonyms: bradan-sligeach, bradan-cearr

4. Order of poets, inferior to an ollamh.

Etymology 2

From Middle Irish and Old Irish cana, from Proto-Celtic *kanaw? (compare Welsh cenau).

Noun

cana m

1. puppy, whelp

Etymology 3

Borrowed from English can.

Noun

cana m (genitive singular cana, plural canaichean)

1. can, tin

   Synonym: canastair

Mutation

Further reading

• MacBain, Alexander; Mackay, Eneas (1911) , “cana”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language, Stirling, ?ISBN, page cana

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kana/, [?ka.na]
• Hyphenation: ca?na

Etymology 1

From Latin c?na, feminine of c?nus (“hoary”), or derived from the feminine of Spanish cano. Compare Portuguese cã.

Noun

cana f (plural canas)

1. white or gray hair

Related terms

Etymology 2

From a Lunfardo slang term for police.

Noun

cana f (uncountable)

1. (Argentina, Uruguay) police force, police department
2. (Argentina, Chile, Uruguay) jail, prison

Noun

cana m or f (plural canas)

1. (Argentina, Uruguay) policeman, policewoman

Etymology 3

Adjective

cana

1. feminine singular of cano

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• anca

References

Venetian

Etymology

From Latin canna (“reed”), from Ancient Greek ????? (kánna, “reed”), from Akkadian ???? (qanû, “reed”), from Sumerian ???????? (gi.na).

Noun

cana f (plural cane)

1. tube
2. pipe

Welsh

Alternative forms

• cân (literary, third-person singular present/future; literary, second-person singular imperative)
• canaf (first-person singular future)

Pronunciation

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /?kana/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /?ka?na/, /?kana/

Verb

cana

1. inflection of canu:
   1. (colloquial) first-person singular future
   2. (literary) third-person singular present indicative/future
   3. second-person singular imperative

Mutation