nana
EnglishEdit
Etymology 1Edit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
nana (plural nanas)
Alternative formsEdit
Etymology 2Edit
Variant spelling of nanna.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
nana (plural nanas)
- (informal, term of endearment) One's grandmother.
- (informal) A nanny.
AnagramsEdit
AsturianEdit
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
nana
BalineseEdit
RomanizationEdit
nana
BambaraEdit
PronunciationEdit
VerbEdit
nana
Bikol CentralEdit
EtymologyEdit
Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *nanaq, from Proto-Austronesian *naNaq.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
nanà
Derived termsEdit
CatalanEdit
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
nana
NounEdit
nana f (plural nanes)
- female equivalent of nan (“dwarf”)
- female equivalent of nano (“boy”)
- Clipping of estrella nana (“dwarf star”)
Derived termsEdit
CebuanoEdit
EtymologyEdit
Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *nanaq. Compare Malay nanah.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
nana
Central Huasteca NahuatlEdit
NounEdit
nana
ChampenoisEdit
EtymologyEdit
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
NounEdit
nana
- (Sommepy) bread
ReferencesEdit
- Tarbé, Prosper (1851) Recherches sur l'histoire du langage et des patois de Champagne[1] (in French), volume 1, Reims, page 168
ChickasawEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
PronunciationEdit
PronounEdit
nana
DarkinjungEdit
EtymologyEdit
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
PronunciationEdit
PronounEdit
nana
- him (3rd person singular accusative)
EseEdit
NounEdit
nana
EsperantoEdit
EtymologyEdit
From nano (“dwarf”, noun) + -a (adjective ending), ultimately from Latin nānus.
PronunciationEdit
Audio (file)
AdjectiveEdit
nana (accusative singular nanan, plural nanaj, accusative plural nanajn)
FijianEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Central-Pacific *nana, from Proto-Oceanic *nanaq, from Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *nanaq, from Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *nanaq, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *nanaq, from Proto-Austronesian *naNaq.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
nana
- pus (fluid found in regions of infection)
FrenchEdit
EtymologyEdit
Diminutive form of Anne, Anna, popularised after Zola's 1880 novel Nana.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
nana f (plural nanas)
Further readingEdit
- “nana”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
AnagramsEdit
GalicianEdit
EtymologyEdit
Probably with ultimate origin in baby talk.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
nana f (plural nanas)
Derived termsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- “nana” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
- “nana” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
- “nana” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “nana” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
GarawaEdit
EtymologyEdit
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
PronunciationEdit
DeterminerEdit
nana
- that
- (please add the primary text of this usage example) ― I used that pot because there were no other pots available.
- Synonym: nanda
ReferencesEdit
- Ilana Mushin, A Grammar of (Western) Garrwa (2012)
HadzaEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
AdverbEdit
nana
IlocanoEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Philippine [Term?], from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *nanaq, from Proto-Austronesian *naNaq.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
nana
- pus (fluid found in regions of infection)
IsnagEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Philippine [Term?], from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *nanaq, from Proto-Austronesian *naNaq.
NounEdit
nána
- pus (fluid found in regions of infection)
ItalianEdit
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
nana
NounEdit
nana f (plural nane)
AnagramsEdit
IvatanEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Philippine [Term?], from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *nanaq, from Proto-Austronesian *naNaq.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
nana
- pus (fluid found in regions of infection)
JapaneseEdit
RomanizationEdit
nana
KrisaEdit
EtymologyEdit
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
PronunciationEdit
PronounEdit
nana
LatinEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
nāna f (genitive nānae); first declension
- dwarf (female)
DeclensionEdit
First-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | nāna | nānae |
Genitive | nānae | nānārum |
Dative | nānae | nānīs |
Accusative | nānam | nānās |
Ablative | nānā | nānīs |
Vocative | nāna | nānae |
Related termsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- “nana”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “nana”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
LivonianEdit
Alternative formsEdit
- nanā (Courland)
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Finnic *nenä.
NounEdit
nana
Lower SorbianEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
nana
- inflection of nan:
MalayEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Tamil அண்ணா (aṇṇā).
PronunciationEdit
- (Johor-Selangor) IPA(key): /nanə/
- (Riau-Lingga) IPA(key): /nana/
- Rhymes: -anə, -nə, -ə
NounEdit
nana (Jawi spelling نان, plural nana-nana, informal 1st possessive nanaku, 2nd possessive nanamu, 3rd possessive nananya)
- brother (older male sibling)
See alsoEdit
MansakaEdit
NounEdit
nana
MarshalleseEdit
EtymologyEdit
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
PronunciationEdit
- (phonetic) IPA(key): [nʲɑːnʲɑ], (enunciated) [nʲɑ nʲɑ]
- (phonemic) IPA(key): /nʲæɰnʲæɰ/
- Bender phonemes: {nahnah}
AdjectiveEdit
nana
ReferencesEdit
MasbatenyoEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *nanaq, from Proto-Austronesian *naNaq.
NounEdit
nanà
Murui HuitotoEdit
PronunciationEdit
PronounEdit
nana
DeterminerEdit
nana
ReferencesEdit
- Shirley Burtch (1983) Diccionario Huitoto Murui (Tomo I) (Linguistica Peruana No. 20)[2] (in Spanish), Yarinacocha, Peru: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, page 187
- Katarzyna Izabela Wojtylak (2017) A grammar of Murui (Bue): a Witotoan language of Northwest Amazonia.[3], Townsville: James Cook University press (PhD thesis), page 154
NiasEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *nanaq, from Proto-Austronesian *naNaq.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
nana (mutated form nana)
- pus (fluid found in regions of infection)
Northern PaiuteEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
nana (plural naana)
Northern SamiEdit
AdjectiveEdit
nana
- attributive of nanus
OroqenEdit
NounEdit
nana
PortugueseEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
NounEdit
nana f (plural nanas)
Etymology 2Edit
VerbEdit
nana
- inflection of nanar:
SambaliEdit
NounEdit
nana
NounEdit
nanà
Serbo-CroatianEdit
Etymology 1Edit
Of expressive/onomatopoetic origin.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
nána f (Cyrillic spelling на́на)
Etymology 2Edit
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish نعنع (nane), from Arabic نَعْنَع (naʕnaʕ), نَعْنَاع (naʕnāʕ).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
nána f (Cyrillic spelling на́на)
ReferencesEdit
SimeulueEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *nanaq, from Proto-Austronesian *naNaq.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
nana
- pus (fluid found in regions of infection)
SpanishEdit
Etymology 1Edit
Echoic/imitative.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
nana f (plural nanas)
- (Latin America) nanny
- (colloquial) granny, grandmother
- (Chile) housekeeper
- lullaby
- Synonym: canción de cuna
- a kind of small sack
- (dated, Guatemala) mommy; mom; mother
Coordinate termsEdit
Derived termsEdit
Etymology 2Edit
NounEdit
nana f (plural nanas)
- (Argentina, Chile, Paraguay, childish) small wound, scratch or painful bump
- (Argentina, Uruguay, mostly in the plural) pains and aches of old age
- Synonym: achaque
Further readingEdit
- “nana”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
TagalogEdit
Etymology 1Edit
Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *nanaq, from Proto-Austronesian *naNaq.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
nanà (Baybayin spelling ᜈᜈ)
Etymology 2Edit
From Philippine Spanish nana (“mommy”).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
nana (Baybayin spelling ᜈᜈ)
TahitianEdit
EtymologyEdit
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
PronunciationEdit
InterjectionEdit
nana
TausugEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *nanaq.
NounEdit
nana
Toba BatakEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *nanaq, from Proto-Austronesian *naNaq.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
nana (Batak spelling ᯉᯉ)
- pus (fluid found in regions of infection)
WanyiEdit
EtymologyEdit
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
PronunciationEdit
DeterminerEdit
nana
- that
- (please add the primary text of this usage example) ― I used that pot because there were no other pots available.
ReferencesEdit
- Mary Laughren, Rob Pensalfini, Tom Mylne, Accounting for verb-initial order in an Australian language, in Verb First: On the syntax of verb-initial languages (2005)
Waray-WarayEdit
NounEdit
nanà
YogadEdit
NounEdit
naná