sona

See also: -sona, Sona, SONA, sõna, soña, Soňa, sonà, and sõnā

English

Noun

sona (plural sonas)

1. (fandom slang) Clipping of fursona.
   • 2020, Kathy Merlock Jackson, Kathy Shepherd Stolley, Lisa Lyon Payne, Animals and Ourselves: Essays on Connections and Blurred Boundaries, McFarland, →ISBN:

     Especially interesting in this regard are furries with more than one fursona. […] Consider, for instance, how Muse describes his two fursonas: My two current sonas are a bat and a rabbit.

Anagrams

• AONs, Naso, Noas, ONAs, Sano, naos, naso-

Atong (India)

Etymology

From Bengali সোনা (śōna) or Hindi सोना (sonā), from Sanskrit सुवर्ण (suvarṇa).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sʰona/

Noun

sona (Bengali script সোনা)

1. gold

References

• van Breugel, Seino. 2015. Atong-English dictionary, second edition. Available online: https://www.academia.edu/487044/Atong_English_Dictionary.

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /ˈsɔ.nə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈsɔ.na/
• Rhymes: -ɔna

Verb

sona

1. third-person singular present indicative form of sonar
2. second-person singular imperative form of sonar

Cebuano

Etymology

From English zone, from Latin zōna, from Ancient Greek ζώνη (zṓnē, “girdle, belt”).

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: so‧na

Noun

sona

1. a zone; a given area distinguished on the basis of a particular characteristic, use, restriction, etc.

Chuukese

Verb

sona

1. (intransitive) to steal

Crimean Tatar

Noun

sona (accusative [please provide], plural [please provide])

1. wasp

Galician

Etymology

Attested since 1708. From son (“sound”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈsonɐ]

Noun

sona f (plural sonas)

1. rumor; word of mouth
2. fame; reputation

References

• “sona” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “sona” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “sona” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Icelandic

Noun

sona

1. indefinite genitive plural of sonur

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish sona, from Proto-Celtic *sugnāwos (“well grown”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsˠʊn̪ˠə/

Adjective

sona

1. happy

Declension

Declension of sona

	Singular		Plural (m/f)
Positive	Masculine	Feminine	(strong noun)	(weak noun)
Nominative	sona	shona	sona; shona²
Vocative	shona		sona
Genitive		sona	sona	sona
Dative	sona; shona¹	shona	sona; shona²
Comparative	níos sona
Superlative	is sona

¹ When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
² When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.

Derived terms

• lá breithe sona dhuit (“happy birthday”)
• Nollaig shona (“Merry Christmas”)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
sona	shona after an, tsona	not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Italian

Verb

sona

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

Anagrams

• Naos, Naso, Sanò, anso, ansò, naso, naso-, sano, sanò

Javanese

Alternative forms

• Carakan: ꦱꦺꦴꦤ
• Roman: sono (nonstandard)

Etymology

Either from Pali soṇa, or directly from Sanskrit श्वन् (śvan)

Noun

sona (kawi sona)

1. (literary) dog

   Synonyms: asu, cemera

References

• The Linguistic Center of Yogyakarta (2015), “sona”, in Kamus Basa Jawa (Bausastra Jawa) [Javanese Language Dictionary (Javanese Dictionary)] (in Javanese), Yogyakarta: Kanisius, →ISBN

Latin

Verb

sonā

1. second-person singular present active imperative of sonō

References

• sona in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

Lower Sorbian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɔna/

Noun

sona

1. inflection of son:
   1. genitive/accusative singular
   2. nominative dual

Northern Ndebele

Etymology

From Proto-Nguni *soná.

Pronoun

soná

1. he, she, him, her, it; class 7 absolute pronoun.

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• sonen

Noun

sona m or f

1. definite feminine singular of sone

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

sona f

1. definite singular of sone

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *sānō. Related to Old Norse senn, Gothic 𐍃𐌿𐌽𐍃 (suns).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsoː.nɑ/

Adverb

sōna

1. immediately

Descendants

• English: soon

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *sugnāwos (“well grown”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵneh₃- (“to know”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsona/

Adjective

sona

1. happy, fortunate

Usage notes

• The adjectives sona and dona represent a pattern in Old Irish where words in s and so represent happy, good luck, positive denotations and words in d and do represent sad, bad luck, or negative denotations.

Descendants

• Irish: sona
• Manx: sonney
• Scottish Gaelic: sona

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
sona	ṡona	unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Old Norse

Noun

sona

1. genitive plural of sonr

Phuthi

Etymology

From Proto-Nguni *soná.

Pronoun

soná

1. he, she, him, her, it; class 7 absolute pronoun.

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish sona, from Proto-Celtic *sognāwos (“well grown”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [sɔnə]

Adjective

sona

1. happy

   Tha mi cho sona ri bròig! ― I’m as happy as a shoe!

2. fortunate, lucky

Derived terms

• cho sona ri bròg
• co-latha breith sona

Mutation

Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical	Lenition
sona	shona after "an", t-sona
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Southern Ndebele

Etymology

From Proto-Nguni *soná.

Pronoun

soná

1. he, she, him, her, it; class 7 absolute pronoun.

Swazi

Etymology

From Proto-Nguni *soná.

Pronoun

soná

1. he, she, him, her, it; class 7 absolute pronoun.

Swedish

Verb

sona (present sonar, preterite sonade, supine sonat, imperative sona)

1. to atone (to make reparation for a crime or the like)
2. (by extension) to pay (face consequences)

   Han ska få sona sina brott!

   He will pay for his crimes!

Conjugation

Conjugation of sona (weak)

	Active		Passive
Infinitive	sona		sonas
Supine	sonat		sonats
Imperative	sona		—
Imper. plural1	sonen		—
	Present	Past	Present	Past
Indicative	sonar	sonade	sonas	sonades
Ind. plural1	sona	sonade	sonas	sonades
Subjunctive2	sone	sonade	sones	sonades
	Participles
Present participle	sonande
Past participle	sonad
1 Archaic. 2 Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs.

Related terms

• försona

References

• sona in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• sona in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• sona in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Anagrams

• nosa, onas

Tetum

Etymology 1

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *saŋelaʀ.

Verb

sona

1. to fry

Etymology 2

Maybe the same as above.

Verb

sona

1. to puncture, to pierce
2. to stab

Turkish

Noun

sona

1. dative singular of son

Volapük

Noun

sona

1. genitive singular of son

Xhosa

Etymology

From Proto-Nguni *soná.

Pronoun

soná

1. he, she, him, her, it; class 7 absolute pronoun.

Zulu

Etymology

From Proto-Nguni *soná.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /soːná/

Pronoun

soná

1. he, she, him, her, it; class 7 absolute pronoun.

Inflection

Stem -so, poss. stem -só
Full form	soná
Locative	kúso
Full form	soná
Locative	kúso
Copulative	yíso
Possessive forms
	Modifier	Substantive
Class 1	wâso	ówâso
Class 2	bâso	ábâso
Class 3	wâso	ówâso
Class 4	yâso	éyâso
Class 5	lâso	élâso
Class 6	âso	áwâso
Class 7	sâso	ésâso
Class 8	zâso	ézâso
Class 9	yâso	éyâso
Class 10	zâso	ézâso
Class 11	lwâso	ólwâso
Class 14	bâso	óbâso
Class 15	kwâso	ókwâso
Class 17	kwâso	ókwâso

References

• C. M. Doke; B. W. Vilakazi (1972), “sona”, in Zulu-English Dictionary, →ISBN: “sona (6.3)”