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mena

See also: Appendix:Variations of "mena"

Asturian

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈmena/ [ˈme.na]
  • Rhymes: -ena
  • Syllabification: me‧na

Noun

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mena f (plural menes)

  1. kind, type, sort, manner, category
    Synonyms: tipu, climen
    • 1876-1895(?), Teodoro Cuesta, Cuentu de xunt'al fueu‎[3]:
      Una vos cuntaré de bona mena
      I'll tell you one (a story) of good kind
    • 1925, Enrique García Rendueles, La Rueca‎[4]:
      Un cerru de bona mena
      A hill of good kind
  2. lineage, origin
    • 1634-1662(?), Antón de Marirreguera, Hero y Lleandro‎[5]:
      Home de bon calter y bona mena ,
      Man of good character and good lineage
    • 1891, Teodoro Cuesta, Glorias de Asturias:
      Pedro José Pidal, de bona mena,
      Pedro José Pidal, of good lineage

Further reading

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  • “mena” in Diccionario general de la lengua asturiana. Xosé Lluis García Arias. →ISBN.

Catalan

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Etymology 1

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Inherited from Vulgar Latin *mīna, *mēna, from Gaulish *meina (“mineral, ore”). Doublet of mina (“mine”). First attested in 1185.

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mena f (plural menes)

  1. (mineralogy) ore
  2. sort, kind, type
    Synonyms: classe, espècie, tipus
  3. (nautical) strand (of a rope)
  4. (nautical) thickness, size (especially of a rope)

Etymology 2

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Noun

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mena f (plural menes)

  1. (colloquial, Balearic) lie, falsehood

Noun

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mena m or f by sense (plural menes)

  1. (colloquial, Balearic) liar

Etymology 3

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

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Verb

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mena

  1. inflection of menar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

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French

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Verb

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mena

  1. third-person singular past historic of mener

Anagrams

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Gothic

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Romanization

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mēna

  1. Romanization of 𐌼𐌴𐌽𐌰

Hausa

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /méː.nàː/
    • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA(key): [méː.nàː]

Noun

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mēnā̀ f (possessed form mēnàr̃)

  1. dama gazelle

Italian

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Etymology 1

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Noun

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mena f (plural mene)

  1. plot, conspiracy
    Synonyms: complotto, trama, intrigo, macchinazione

Etymology 2

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Verb

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mena

  1. inflection of menare:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

References

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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 mena in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

Anagrams

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Kikuyu

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Pronunciation

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Verb

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mena (infinitive kũmena)

  1. to dislike, to despise

Antonyms

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Derived terms

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(Nouns)

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References

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  1. ^ Mugu, Muturi Anthony (2014). "Antonymy in Gĩkũyũ: a cognitive semantics approach", p. 29.
  • Armstrong, Lilias E. (1940). The Phonetic and Tonal Structure of Kikuyu, p. 362. Rep. 1967. (Also in 2018 by Routledge).

Kituba

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mena

  1. to grow (as plants do)

Lithuanian

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Verb

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mẽna

  1. third-person singular present of miñti
  2. third-person plural present of miñti

Malagasy

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Adjective

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mena

  1. red
  2. (dialectal, Bara, figuratively) angry

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Colors in Malagasy · volo (layout · text)
     fotsy      volombatolalaka ; vatolalaka      mainty ; ngaly
             mena ; horàka; menapina ; jaky ; dorehitra              haboka ; heza; fiana ; manja ; lañary              vony ; hasaka
                          maitso             
                                       manga
             volomparasy ; katso ; lalena; angana              volomparasy ; katso ; lalena              mavokely

Murui Huitoto

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Murui Huitoto numbers (edit)
 ←  1 2 3  → 
    Cardinal: mena
    Adverbial: menakaño

Etymology

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Cognates include Minica Huitoto mena and Nüpode Huitoto mena.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈmɛna]
  • Hyphenation: me‧na

Numeral

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mena

  1. two

Derived terms

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References

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  • Shirley Burtch (1983) Diccionario Huitoto Murui (Tomo I) (Linguistica Peruana No. 20)‎[6] (in Spanish), Yarinacocha, Peru: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, page 176
  • Katarzyna Izabela Wojtylak (2017) A grammar of Murui (Bue): a Witotoan language of Northwest Amazonia.‎[7], Townsville: James Cook University press (PhD thesis), page 148

Occitan

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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mena f (plural menas)

  1. type, sort, kind
    Synonyms: sòrta, espècia
  2. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

Further reading

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  • Joan de Cantalausa (2006) Diccionari general occitan a partir dels parlars lengadocians‎[8], 2 edition, →ISBN, page 638.

Old Swedish

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Verb

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mena

  1. to mean

Conjugation

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Conjugation of mēna (weak)
present past
infinitive mēna —
participle mēnandi, mēnande mēnder
active voice indicative subjunctive imperative indicative subjunctive
iæk mēnir mēni, mēne —   mēndi, mēnde mēndi, mēnde
þū mēnir mēni, mēne mēn mēndi, mēnde mēndi, mēnde
han mēnir mēni, mēne —   mēndi, mēnde mēndi, mēnde
vīr mēnum, mēnom mēnum, mēnom mēnum, mēnom mēndum, mēndom mēndum, mēndom
īr mēnin mēnin mēnin mēndin mēndin
þēr mēna mēnin —   mēndu, mēndo mēndin
mediopassive voice indicative subjunctive imperative indicative subjunctive
iæk mēnis mēnis, mēnes —   mēndis, mēndes mēndis, mēndes
þū mēnis mēnis, mēnes —   mēndis, mēndes mēndis, mēndes
han mēnis mēnis, mēnes —   mēndis, mēndes mēndis, mēndes
vīr mēnums, mēnoms mēnums, mēnoms —   mēndums, mēndoms mēndums, mēndoms
īr mēnins mēnins —   mēndins mēndins
þēr mēnas mēnins —   mēndus, mēndos mēndins

Verb

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mēna

  2. (transitive with accusative) to harm
  3. to hinder, prevent
  4. to forbid, prohibit

Conjugation

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Conjugation of mēna (weak)
present past
infinitive mēna —
participle mēnandi, -e mēnaþer
active voice indicative subjunctive imperative indicative subjunctive
iæk mēnar mēni, -e — mēnaþi, -e mēnaþi, -e
þū mēnar mēni, -e mēna mēnaþi, -e mēnaþi, -e
han mēnar mēni, -e — mēnaþi, -e mēnaþi, -e
vīr mēnum, -om mēnum, -om mēnum, -om mēnaþum, -om mēnaþum, -om
īr mēnin mēnin mēnin mēnaþin mēnaþin
þēr mēna mēnin — mēnaþu, -o mēnaþin
mediopassive voice indicative subjunctive imperative indicative subjunctive
iæk mēnas mēnis, -es — mēnaþis, -es mēnaþis, -es
þū mēnas mēnis, -es — mēnaþis, -es mēnaþis, -es
han mēnas mēnis, -es — mēnaþis, -es mēnaþis, -es
vīr mēnums, -oms mēnums, -oms — mēnaþums, -oms mēnaþums, -oms
īr mēnins mēnins — mēnaþins mēnaþins
þēr mēnas mēnins — mēnaþus, -os mēnaþins

Old Tupi

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Etymology

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Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *men, from Proto-Tupian *men.[1][2]

Cognate with Paraguayan Guaraní ména.

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Noun

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mena (possessable)

  1. husband (male partner in marriage)
    Coordinate term: emirekó (“wife”)
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  • Nheengatu: mena

References

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  1. ^ Beatriz Carretta Corrêa da Silva (2010) Mawé/Awetí/Tupí-Guaraní: relações linguísticas e implicações históricas‎[1] (in Portuguese), Brasília: UnB
  2. ^ Aryon d'Alligna Rodrigues (2007) “As consoantes do proto-tupí”, in Aryon d'Alligna Rodrigues, Ana Suelly Arruda Câmara Cabral, editors, Línguas e culturas tupí‎[2], 1 edition, volume 1, Campinas: Curt Nimuendajú, pages 167–204

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Serbo-Croatian

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Inherited from Proto-Slavic *měna.

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  • IPA(key): /měːna/
  • Hyphenation: me‧na

Noun

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ména f (Cyrillic spelling ме́на)

  1. change
    Synonyms: prȍmena, ȉzmena
  2. phase
  3. lunation

Declension

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Declension of mena
singular plural
nominative ména mene
genitive mene mȇnā
dative meni menama
accusative menu mene
vocative meno mene
locative meni menama
instrumental menom menama

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  • “mena”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

Slovak

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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Inherited from Proto-Slavic *měna (“change, exchange”).[1]

Noun

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mena f (relational adjective menový)

  1. (finance) currency
Declension
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Declension of mena
(pattern žena)
singularplural
nominativemenameny
genitivemenymien
dativemenemenám
accusativemenumeny
locativemenemenách
instrumentalmenoumenami

Etymology 2

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

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mena n

  1. genitive singular of meno

References

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  1. ^ Králik, Ľubor (2016) “meniť”, in Stručný etymologický slovník slovenčiny [Concise Etymological Dictionary of Slovak] (in Slovak), Bratislava: VEDA; JÚĽŠ SAV, →ISBN, page 354

Further reading

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  • “mena”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025

Sotho

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mena

  1. to fold
    Synonym: phutha

Spanish

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈmena/ [ˈme.na]
  • Rhymes: -ena
  • Syllabification: me‧na

Etymology 1

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Noun

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mena f (plural menas)

  1. ore

Etymology 2

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Noun

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mena m or f by sense (plural menas)

  1. Alternative letter-case form of MENA

Etymology 3

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

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mena

  1. inflection of menar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

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Swedish

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Etymology

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From Old Swedish mena, from Middle Low German mēnen, meinen (compare Icelandic meina, Danish mene), from Old Saxon mēnian, from Proto-Germanic *mainijaną, from Proto-Indo-European *mein-.

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Verb

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mena (present menar, preterite menade, supine menat, imperative mena)

  1. to mean; to convey, or to want to convey
  2. to mean; to be of the opinion that or to have as one's conviction
  3. to mean; to have as one's intention

Conjugation

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Conjugation of mena (weak)
active passive
infinitive mena menas
supine menat menats
imperative mena —
imper. plural1 menen —
present past present past
indicative menar menade menas menades
ind. plural1 mena menade menas menades
subjunctive2 mene menade menes menades
present participle menande
past participle menad

1 Archaic. 2 Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs.

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Yao

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Etymology

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From Proto-Bantu *màjínà.

Noun

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mena class 6

  1. plural of lina
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