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For pronunciation and definitions of あだな – see the following entry.
渾名
[noun] [from 1614] a nickname
[noun] [from 1614] a pet name, a term of endearment
[verb] [from mid-1800s] to nickname
Alternative spellings
あだ名, 綽名
(This term, あだな (adana), is the hiragana spelling of the above term.)