bana

bana

1. (intransitive, Mpakwithi) to climb

• Terry Crowley, The Mpakwithi dialect of Anguthimri (1981), page 184

bàna

1. disease
2. outside of the village

• bana

bana

1. sicken (to become sick)

bàna

1. kapok tree, Ceiba pentandra

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• IPA^(key): /bana/ [ba.na]
• Rhymes: -ana
• Hyphenation: ba‧na

bana

1. Short form of banatu (“to distribute”).

bana

1. husband

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *banah.

• Hyphenation: ba‧na

bana

1. husband

For quotations using this term, see Citations:bana.

bana

1. a second ago, just now

bana

1. husband

bana

1. water
2. rain

• Dyaabugay Swadesh List
• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Language Wordlists Djabugay Everyday Words

bana

1. water

• K. Plaster, Women, fire, and dangerous things
• Ferenc Kiefer, Mária Ladányi, Péter Siptár, Current Issues in Morphological Theory (2012, →ISBN, page 169

From Old Norse bana, from Proto-Germanic *banōną.

bana (third person singular past indicative banaði, third person plural past indicative banaðu, supine banað)

1. kill, put to death

• "bana" at Sprotin.fo

bana

1. inflection of banir:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

bana

1. lean meat

• IPA^(key): /bá.ná/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [bə́.nə́]

bana

1. this year

bána

1. husband

bánà

1. opinion, guess, thought

From Old Norse bana, from Proto-Germanic *banōną. See bani (“death”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈpaːna/
• Rhymes: -aːna

bana (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative banaði, supine banað)

1. (transitive, with dative) To kill.

   Kennari banar nemanda sinum.

   A teacher kills his student.

   Hetjan banaði drekanum.

   The hero slew the dragon.

• bani (noun)

bana

1. inflection of bani:
   1. indefinite accusative/dative/genitive singular
   2. indefinite accusative/genitive plural

bana

1. children

bana

1. water

• R. M. W. Dixon, The Languages of Australia (2010), page 100
• Henry D. Hershberger, Ruth Hershberger, 1982, Kuku-Yalanji dictionary, page 15

bana class 2

1. plural of mwana

From Proto-Arawak *uhbana.

bana

1. liver

From Proto-Arawak *pana.

bana

1. leaf

• de Goeje, C. H. (1928) The Arawak Language of Guiana‎, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 249

bana

1. husband

• banet
• bante (simple past)
• bant (past participle)

bana

1. simple past of bane
2. past participle of bane (both Etymology 3)

• banen m sg (Etymologies 1 and 2)

bana f sg

1. definite feminine singular of bane (Etymology 1)

From Gaulish *bannā, from Proto-Celtic *bandā. Cognate with Catalan banya.

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bana f (plural banas)

1. horn (on an animal's head)

• bona

From Proto-West Germanic *banō, from Proto-Germanic *banô. Cognate with Old Frisian bona, Old Saxon bano, Old High German bano, Old Norse bani.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɑ.nɑ/

bana m

1. murderer
   • Hie næfre his banan folgian noldon. ― They never would pursue his murderer. (Saxon Chronicles)
2. Something which causes death.

• Middle English: bane, ban, bayn, beone, bone
  • English: bane
  • Scots: bane, baine, bain, bayn, bone

Related to bani m (“death, killer”).

bana

1. (transitive, with dative) To kill.

bana

1. inflection of bani:
   1. accusative/dative/genitive singular
   2. accusative/genitive plural

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

bana

1. inflection of banir:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

bana

1. because

Possibly from Anyi bana[1] or from English banana or Portuguese banana, both possibly from Wolof banaana (“banana”). Cognate of Aukan baana.

bana

1. plantain (cooking banana)
2. (colloquial) penis

• bakba

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-bana (infinitive kubana)

1. to squeeze, to press

From Middle Low German bāne, from Old Saxon *bana, from Proto-West Germanic *banu, from Proto-Germanic *banō, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰen-.

• IPA^(key): /²bɑːna/, [ˈbɑːˌna]

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• Rhymes: -ɑːna

bana c

1. a trajectory, a course, a path (path that something moves along, especially in physics, astronomy, or the like)

   projektilens bana

   the trajectory of the projectile

   jordens bana runt solen

   the Earth's path (orbit) around the sun

   Månen vandrar sin tysta ban', snön lyser vit på fur och gran

   The moon wanders its silent course, the snow shines white on pine and spruce (from the poem Tomten by Victor Rydberg)

2. (figuratively, in "i de banorna") along those lines

   Jag har inte tänkt i de banorna

   I haven't thought along those lines

3. (figuratively) a career path, life path, etc.; a route

   välja den militära banan

   choose the military route

   1. (idiomatic, figuratively, in "brottets bana" (the path of the crime)) criminal activity

      lockas in på brottets bana

      be lured into a life of crime (or into committing a crime or the like)

      lämna brottets bana

      leave the life of crime

4. a (prepared) area or track or the like for (sports) competitions; a court, a course, a track, etc.

   tennisbana

   tennis court

   badmintonbana

   badminton court

   golfbana

   golf course

   minigolfbana

   miniature golf course

   löparbana

   running track

   skjutbana

   shooting range

   hoppbana

   jump course (for show jumping)

5. (figuratively, in "vara tillbaka på banan," "åter på banan," and the like) back on the track (once again active)

   Spelaren är tillbaka på banan efter skadan

   The player is back on the track after the injury

6. (video games) a stage, a level

   Jag är fast på tredje banan

   I'm stuck on the third level

7. (usually in compounds) a train track, a railway track

   Synonym: tågbana

   de privata banorna

   the privately owned tracks

8. (usually in compounds) a strip, road section, or the like with a certain purpose

   landningsbana

   landing strip

   körbana

   roadway, carriageway (the part of a road that carries traffic)

   landa på bana 3

   land on runway 3

9. a long strip of material being processed (for example paper)
   1. (idiomatic, in "i långa banor") in large amounts

      bestick i långa banor på museets nya utställning

      cutlery galore at the museum's new exhibition

bana (present banar, preterite banade, supine banat, imperative bana)

1. See bana väg.

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

Borrowed from Kapampangan bana (“lowland; marshland”), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bəna (“lower part of a river; tidal bore”). Compare Malay bena.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /baˈnaʔ/ [bɐˈnaʔ]
• Rhymes: -aʔ
• Syllabification: ba‧na

banâ (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜈ)

1. watery lowland; swamp; marsh

Borrowed from Cebuano bana (“husband”), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *banah (“husband”), from Proto-Austronesian *baNaS (“male (of animals)”).

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈbana/ [ˈba.nɐ], /ˈbanaʔ/ [ˈba.nɐʔ]
• Rhymes: -ana, -anaʔ
• Syllabification: ba‧na

bana or banà (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜈ)

1. husband

   Synonyms: asawa, esposo

• “bana”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
• Blust, Robert, Trussel, Stephen (2010–) “*bena”, in The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary
• Blust, Robert, Trussel, Stephen (2010–) “*baNaS”, in The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary

bana

1. husband

bana

1. beans

bana

1. me, to me, for me (dative of ben)

• One of only two irregular Turkish dative cases (the other is sana).

bana

1. genitive singular of ban (bath)

• Hyphenation: ba‧na

bana

1. husband

bana

1. Any drinkable liquid.
2. water

• R. M. W. Dixon, A Grammar of Yidin and The Languages of Australia (2011, →ISBN, page 102)

From -bi +‎ -ana.

IPA^(key): /ɓáːna/

-bána

1. rather bad
2. somewhat evil
3. somewhat ugly

• -banyana

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