See also: Sanna and sånnå

English edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Konkani सान्नां (sānnā̃).

Noun edit

sanna (plural sannas)

  1. A spongy steamed rice cake, popular in parts of India.

Anagrams edit

Afrikaans edit

Noun edit

sanna (plural [please provide])

  1. flint‐lock gun

Cypriot Arabic edit

Etymology edit

From san +‎ -na, literally our language.

Noun edit

sanna f

  1. Cypriot Arabic

References edit

  • Borg, Alexander (2004) A Comparative Glossary of Cypriot Maronite Arabic (Arabic–English) (Handbook of Oriental Studies; I.70), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 417

Greenlandic edit

Pronunciation edit

Pronoun edit

sanna (demonstrative) (plural sakku)

  1. down distal absolutive; that down a long distance, he/she/it down there.

Declension edit

See also edit

  • manna - this here
  • una - that nearby
  • innga - that yonder
  • kanna - that down a medial distance
  • pinnga - that up a medial distance
  • panna - that up a long distance
  • qanna - that in there/out there
  • anna - that in the north
  • kinnga - that in the south/that outside
  • inna - that which is invisible

Icelandic edit

Etymology edit

From Old Norse sanna.

Pronunciation edit

Verb edit

sanna (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative sannaði, supine sannað)

  1. to prove

Conjugation edit

Adjective edit

sanna

  1. inflection of sannur:
    1. strong feminine singular accusative positive degree
    2. strong masculine plural accusative positive degree
    3. weak masculine singular accusative positive degree
    4. weak masculine singular dative positive degree
    5. weak masculine singular genitive positive degree
    6. weak feminine singular nominative positive degree
    7. weak neuter singular positive degree

Italian edit

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈsan.na/
  • Rhymes: -anna
  • Hyphenation: sàn‧na

Noun edit

sanna f (plural sanne)

  1. (archaic) Alternative form of zanna
    • 1472, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Inferno, Le Monnier, published 1994, Canto VI, p.90, vv. 22-23:
      Quando ci scorse Cerbero, il gran vermo, ¶ le bocche aperse e mostrocci le sanne;
      When Cerberus perceived us, the great worm, ¶ his mouths he opened, and displayed his tusks;

Latin edit

Etymology edit

From Ancient Greek σάννας (sánnas).

Noun edit

sanna f (genitive sannae); first declension

  1. A grimace, especially in mockery

Declension edit

First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative sanna sannae
Genitive sannae sannārum
Dative sannae sannīs
Accusative sannam sannās
Ablative sannā sannīs
Vocative sanna sannae

Derived terms edit

References edit

  • sanna”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • sanna in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette

Old Frisian edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

Uncertain. Perhaps a borrowing of Old Norse sanna, senna, from Proto-Germanic *sanþōną, *sanþijaną, from *sanþaz (true).

Verb edit

sanna

  1. to contradict

Related terms edit

Descendants edit

  • North Frisian: sana

Old Norse edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Germanic *sanþōną, from *sanþaz, whence also Old Norse saðr. The English soothe is a cognate.

Verb edit

sanna

  1. to assert, affirm
  2. to make good, prove

Conjugation edit

Derived terms edit

  • sannan f (assertion, proof)
  • senna f (quarrel, row)

Descendants edit

Noun edit

sanna f (genitive sǫnnu)

  1. assertation
  2. proof

Declension edit

References edit

  • sanna”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Old Swedish edit

Etymology edit

From Old Norse sanna, from Proto-Germanic *sanþōną.

Verb edit

sanna

  1. to prove true, show to be true

Conjugation edit

Descendants edit

Pali edit

Alternative forms edit

Adjective edit

sanna

  1. past participle of sandati (to flow)[1]

Declension edit

Adjective edit

sanna

  1. past participle of sīdati (to sink)[1]

Declension edit

References edit

  1. 1.0 1.1 Pali Text Society (1921–1925), “sanna”, in Pali-English Dictionary‎, London: Chipstead

Swedish edit

Adjective edit

sanna

  1. inflection of sann:
    1. definite singular
    2. plural