MENA

See also: mena, Mena, mená, menà, menâ, měna, and me'na

English

Proper noun

MENA

1. (politics) Initialism of Middle East News Agency (a Cairo-based news agency, established 1955, nationalized and affiliated to the Egyptian Ministry of Information in 1960.)
2. (politics) Initialism of Middle East and North Africa.
   • 2006 "The MENA region is anything but stable today" (A. H. Cordesman, K. R. Al-Rodhan, The Changing Dynamics of Energy in the Middle East, →ISBN, p. 65)

Usage notes

In use since the 1970s by the IPPF.[1] Used by the World Bank / IMF from about 1980.[2] Often as "MENA Region" or "MENA region". The MENAFATF (or MENA FATF) was established in 2004.

Derived terms

Middle East, North Africa

• MENAFATF

 

Related terms

Middle East, North Africa

• EMEA
• EMEAI
• EMEIA

 

Anagrams

• -mane, -nema, Amen, Eman, Enma, MEAN, NAmE, NEMA, NMEA, amen, mane, mean, mnae, name, namé, neam, ñame

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Spanish

Alternative forms

• mena

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmena/, [ˈme.na]

Noun

MENA m or f (plural MENAS)

1. (Spain) Acronym of menor extranjero no acompañado (“unaccompanied foreign minor”).
   • 2019 November 10, Elvira Lindo, “Chiringuitos, inmigrantes, MENAS”, in El País‎^[3]:

     En el autobús, una señora le decía a otra que prefería mil veces un centro de metadona que uno de MENAS (me encanta cómo nos hemos aprendido todos la palabreja).

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   • 2021 January 25, Luis F. Durán, “Dos 'menas' insultan, amenazan y rompen el coche de una educadora que les retiró la paga por inhalar disolvente en el centro de Casa de Campo”, in El Mundo‎^[4]:

     Dos menas del centro de la Casa de Campo insultaron, agredieron y causaron daños en el coche de una educadora del centro que decidió retirarles la paga semanal al incumplir las normas establecidas.

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   • 2021 August 17, Pablo Gómez, “El duro ataque de Vox contra Almeida: “El PP con la izquierda: paguitas a los menas y Madrid Central””, in La Razón‎^[5]: