kwana

Anguthimri

Noun

kwana

1. (Mpakwithi) nape

References

• Terry Crowley, The Mpakwithi dialect of Anguthimri (1981), page 186

Hausa

Pronunciation 1

• IPA^(key): /kʷáː.náː/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [kʷáː.náː]

Noun

kwānā m (plural kwā̀nàkī, possessed form kwānan)

1. sleep, lying down
2. day (24 hour period)

Pronunciation 2

• IPA^(key): /kʷá.nàː/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [kʷə́.nàː]

Noun

kwanā̀ f (possessed form kwanàr̃)

1. corner, bend in the road
2. diversion, deviation

Pronunciation 3

• IPA^(key): /kʷáː.ná/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [kʷáː.nə́]

Verb

kwāna (grade 3a)

1. to spend the night
2. to spend the day

References

• Newman, Paul (2007) A Hausa-English Dictionary (Yale Language Series), New Haven, London: Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 121.

Zacatepec Chatino

Kwana.

Etymology

From Proto-Chatino *kʷaną.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kʷa.na/

Noun

kwana

1. mirror

References

• Stéphanie Villard (2015) The Phonology and Morphology of Zacatepec Eastern Chatino‎^[1], University of Texas at Austin (PhD thesis), page 53