Wiktionary

nini

See also: Nini and ni-ni

English edit

Interjection edit

nini

  1. (usually even more childish) Alternative form of night night

Brunei Malay edit

Etymology edit

Cognate with Malay nenek.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /nini/
  • Hyphenation: ni‧ni

Noun edit

nini

  1. grandparent; grandfather or grandmother

Eastern Ojibwa edit

Etymology edit

cf. Ojibwe inini

Noun edit

nini

  1. man

References edit

Jerry Randolph Valentine (2001) Nishnaabemwin Reference Grammar, University of Toronto, page 105

Hawaiian edit

Pronunciation edit

Verb edit

nini

  1. to pour

Derived terms edit

Hungarian edit

Etymology edit

ni +‎ ni[1]

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): [ˈnini]
  • Hyphenation: ni‧ni
  • Rhymes: -ni

Interjection edit

nini

  1. (colloquial) lo!, look!
    Nini, egy madár! ― Look! A bird!

References edit

  1. ^ nini in Zaicz, Gábor (ed.). Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (‘Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN.  (See also its 2nd edition.)

Further reading edit

  • nini in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

Italian edit

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈni.ni/
  • Rhymes: -ini
  • Hyphenation: nì‧ni

Noun edit

nini m

  1. plural of nino

Anagrams edit

Old Irish edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Celtic *snisni (compare Welsh nini).

Pronunciation edit

Pronoun edit

nini (emphatic)

  1. we
    Synonyms: sinni, sisni, snisni
    • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 43d5
      Is nini fo·rálaig.
      It is we that it had prostrated.

Ottawa edit

Etymology edit

cf. Ojibwe inini

Noun edit

nini anim (plural ninwag, obviative ninwan)

  1. man

References edit

Jerry Randolph Valentine (2001) Nishnaabemwin Reference Grammar, University of Toronto, page 105

Spanish edit

 
Spanish Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia es

Etymology edit

Acronym of ni estudia ni trabaja (“neither studies nor works”).

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈnini/ [ˈni.ni]
  • Rhymes: -ini
  • Syllabification: ni‧ni

Noun edit

nini m or f by sense (plural ninis)

  1. (informal) NEET, neet

See also edit

Swahili edit

Pronunciation edit

  • Audio (Kenya)(file)

Pronoun edit

nini

  1. what (interrogative pronoun)

Derived terms edit

Related terms edit

Tunica edit

Noun edit

nini

  1. fish
Retrieved from "https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=nini&oldid=78584130"