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mona

See also: Mona, MONA, móna, mòna, möna, moña, Móňa, mǫnă, mona-, -mona, and møna

English

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a mona monkey, Cercopithecus mona

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From Spanish mona (“monkey”).

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mona (plural monas)

  1. Cercopithecus mona, a West African monkey.

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Bunama

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Etymology

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From Proto-Oceanic *moñak, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *məñak.

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mona

  1. pudding boiled in clay pot
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Catalan

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Etymology 1

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From earlier mamona, maimona, from Arabic مَيْمُون (maymūn, “baboon, mandrill”).

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mona f (plural mones)

  1. monkey
    Synonym: mico
  2. (colloquial) ape, copycat
  3. (colloquial) drunkenness, hangover
    Synonyms: embriaguesa, ressaca
  4. a matching card game similar to Old Maid; also the loser and the losing card in this game
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Etymology 2

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Inherited from Latin munda, plural of mundum (“world”).

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mona f (plural mones)

  1. a round cake garnished with eggs (originally hard-boiled, now usually chocolate) eaten at Easter

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Cornish

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mona m (plural monyes)

  1. money, cash, change
    Synonym: arhans

Esperanto

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From mono +‎ -a.

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

  1. (money) pecuniary, monetary

Hawaiian

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Etymology

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From Proto-Polynesian *mona, from Proto-Oceanic *moñak, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *məñak. Cognate with Malay minyak (“oil”).

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  • IPA(key): /ˈmo.na/, [ˈmo.nə]

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mona

  1. fat (specialized animal tissue)

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mona

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

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References

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  • Pukui, Mary Kawena, Elbert, Samuel H. (1986) “mona”, in Hawaiian Dictionary, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press

Italian

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Etymology 1

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From Spanish mono, of Arabic origin.

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  • IPA(key): /ˈmɔ.na/
  • Rhymes: -ɔna
  • Hyphenation: mò‧na

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mona f (plural mone)

  1. (obsolete) monkey

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Uncertain.

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  • IPA(key): /ˈmo.na/
  • Rhymes: -ona
  • Hyphenation: mó‧na

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mona f (plural mone)

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

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mona m (invariable)

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

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Kituba

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mona

  1. to see

Luba-Kasai

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mona

  1. to see

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mona

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

Murui Huitoto

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mona
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mona- —

Etymology

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Cognates include Minica Huitoto mona and Nüpode Huitoto mona.

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  • IPA(key): [ˈmɔna]
  • Hyphenation: mo‧na

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mona

  1. sky

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Declension of mona
singular plural
Absolutive mona monaɨaɨ
Nominative monadɨ monaɨaɨdɨ
Accusative monana monaɨaɨna
Dative/Locative monamo monaɨaɨmo
Ablative monamona monaɨaɨmona
Instrumental monado monaɨaɨdo
Causal monari monaɨaɨri
Privative monanino monaɨaɨnino

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  • Shirley Burtch (1983) Diccionario Huitoto Murui (Tomo I) (Linguistica Peruana No. 20)‎[1] (in Spanish), Yarinacocha, Peru: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, page 179
  • Katarzyna Izabela Wojtylak (2017) A grammar of Murui (Bue): a Witotoan language of Northwest Amazonia.‎[2], Townsville: James Cook University press (PhD thesis), page 127

Old English

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Full mōna of eorðan ġesewen
 
Sē mōna on fulre mōnan āsprungennesse

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Etymology

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From Proto-West Germanic *mānō, from Proto-Germanic *mēnô, from Proto-Indo-European *mḗh₁n̥s, probably a suffixed form of an ultimate root *meh₁- (“to measure”).

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mōna m

  1. moon
    Lōca nū hū beorhte sē mōna tō niht sċīnþ!
    Look how bright the moon is shining tonight!
    On þæs mōnan lēohte læġ lȳtel ǣġ on lēafe.
    In the light of the moon, a little egg lay on a leaf.
    • c. 994, Ælfric, On the Seasons of the Year
      Sē mōna næfþ nān lēoht būtan of þǣre sunnan lēoman, and hē is ealra tungla niðemest.
      The moon has no light except from the sun, and it is the lowest of all the heavenly bodies.

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Declension of mona (weak)
Case Singular Plural
nominative mōna mōnan
accusative mōnan mōnan
genitive mōnan mōnena
dative mōnan mōnum

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Old Frisian

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Thī mōna.

Etymology

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From Proto-West Germanic *mānō, from Proto-Germanic *mēnô, from Proto-Indo-European *mḗh₁n̥s (“moon, month”). Cognates include Old English mōna, Old High German māno, Old Norse máni and Gothic 𐌼𐌴𐌽𐌰 (mēna).

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mōna m

  1. moon

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

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mona n

  1. wisdom
  2. self-possession
  3. silence

Penrhyn

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Etymology

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From Proto-Polynesian *mona, from Proto-Oceanic *moñak, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *məñak.

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mona

  1. (stative) be sweet
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Pileni

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Etymology

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From Proto-Polynesian *mona, from Proto-Oceanic *moñak, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *məñak.

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mona

  1. pudding
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Portuguese

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  • Rhymes: (Brazil) -õnɐ, (Portugal) -onɐ
  • Hyphenation: mo‧na

Etymology 1

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From Venetian mona (“pussy, cunt”).

Possibly borrowed from Spanish mona.

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mona f (plural monas)

  1. female equivalent of mono
  2. rag doll
    Synonyms: marafona, matrafona
  3. (Can we verify(+) this sense?) (Brazil, informal) vagina (woman's genitalia)
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:vagina
  4. (informal) drunkenness
    Synonym: bebedeira
    • 1906 March 3, A Situação, Jaguarão, page 2; quoted in Jeferson Francisco Selbach, Rosemary Fritsch Brum, “Jornal A Situação 1906 a 1920”, in Ruralização e viver em fronteira: Jaguarão/RS, Porto Alegre: Animal, 2017 May 13, →ISBN, page 99:
      Hoje a 1 hora da tarde foi tambem conduzido áquelle posto o creoulo Manoel Oliveira, por estar cahido com forte «mona» na rua 15 de Novembro, na porta do estabelecimento funerário do Sr. Miguel Dellelis.
  5. the state of being upset, bothered or annoyed
    Synonyms: aborrecimento, amuamento, amuo
  6. (Brazil, informal) woman
  7. (informal) head
    Synonym: cabeça
  8. (bullfighting) armor used by the bullfighter under his shorts

Etymology 2

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Unknown.

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mona

  1. feminine singular of mono

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mona f (plural monas)

  1. a goat lacking one of its horns

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Sinaugoro

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From Proto-Oceanic *moñak, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *məñak.

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mona

  1. fat, grease

Sotho

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mona

  1. here; proximal demonstrative adverb.

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Etymology 1

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

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mona f (plural monas)

  1. drunkenness, fuddle
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:borrachera
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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
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mona f sg

  1. feminine singular of mono

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mona f (plural monas)

  1. A type of circular cake, similar to a roscón
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Tahitian

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Etymology

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From Proto-Polynesian *mona, from Proto-Oceanic *moñak, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *məñak.

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mona

  1. sweet
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Volapük

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mona

  1. genitive singular of mon
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