nana

An aphetic form of banana.

• enPR: näʹnə, IPA^(key): /ˈnɑːnə/

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• Rhymes: -ɑːnə

nana (plural nanas)

1. (informal) A banana.
2. (UK, slang) A foolish person.

   You look a right nana dressed up like that.

• 'nana, narna, narner

Variant spelling of nanna.

• enPR: nănʹə, IPA^(key): /ˈnænə/

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• Rhymes: -ænə

nana (plural nanas)

1. (informal, term of endearment) One's grandmother.
2. (informal) A nanny.

• A.A.N.N., Anna, anan, anna, naan

nana

1. grandfather

• IPA^(key): /ˈnana/, [ˈna.na]

nana

1. feminine singular of nanu

nana

1. Romanization of ᬦᬦ
2. Romanization of ᬦᬦᬵ

nana

1. past of na

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *nanaq, from Proto-Austronesian *naNaq.

• Hyphenation: na‧na
• IPA^(key): /ˈnana/, [ˈn̪a.n̪a]

nanà

1. pus

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈna.nə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [ˈna.na]

nana

1. feminine singular of nan

nana f (plural nanes)

1. female equivalent of nan (“dwarf”)
2. female equivalent of nano (“boy”)
3. Clipping of estrella nana (“dwarf star”)

• nana blanca
• nana roja

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *nanaq. Compare Malay nanah.

• Hyphenation: na‧na
• IPA^(key): /ˈnanaʔ/, [ˈn̪a.n̪ʌʔ]

nana

1. (uncountable) pus

nana

1. mother.

nana

1. mother

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nana

1. (Sommepy) bread

• Tarbé, Prosper (1851) Recherches sur l'histoire du langage et des patois de Champagne‎ (in French), volume 1, Reims, page 168

• nanna

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nana

1. something

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nana

1. him (3rd person singular accusative)

nana

1. war

From nano (“dwarf”, noun) +‎ -a (adjective ending), ultimately from Latin nānus.

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• IPA^(key): [ˈnana]
• Rhymes: -ana
• Hyphenation: na‧na

nana (accusative singular nanan, plural nanaj, accusative plural nanajn)

1. dwarf

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.

• IPA^(key): /ˈnana/

nana

1. pus (fluid found in regions of infection)

Diminutive form of Anne, Anna, popularised after Zola's 1880 novel Nana.

• IPA^(key): /na.na/

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nana f (plural nanas)

1. (slang) chick, bird (especially when attractive)

   Synonym: meuf

   • 2000, Frédéric Beigbeder, 99 francs‎, Gallimard, →ISBN, page 19:

     Je suis le type qui vous vend de la merde. Qui vous fait rêver de ces choses que vous n’aurez jamais. Ciel toujours bleu, nanas jamais moches, un bonheur parfait, retouché sur Photoshop.

     I'm the guy who sells you shit. Who makes you dream of those things you'll never have. A sky that's always blue; chicks who are never ugly; a perfect, Photoshopped happiness.

• “nana”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• Anna

Probably with ultimate origin in baby talk.

• IPA^(key): /ˈnana̝/

nana f (plural nanas)

1. (archaic) mother; mama

• nai

• “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.

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nana

1. that

   Synonym: nanda

• Ilana Mushin, A Grammar of (Western) Garrwa (2012)

naha +‎ -na

• IPA^(key): /nana/

nana

1. there

• IPA^(key): /ˈna.na/, [ˈnɐ.nə]

nana

1. Lānaʻi form of ulana (“to plait”)

nana

1. to pull

From Proto-Philippine [Term?], from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *nanaq, from Proto-Austronesian *naNaq.

• Hyphenation: na‧na
• IPA^(key): /ˈnana/

nana

1. pus (fluid found in regions of infection)

From Proto-Philippine [Term?], from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *nanaq, from Proto-Austronesian *naNaq.

nána

1. pus (fluid found in regions of infection)

• IPA^(key): /ˈna.na/
• Rhymes: -ana
• Hyphenation: nà‧na

nana

1. feminine singular of nano

nana f (plural nane)

1. female equivalent of nano (“dwarf”)

• Anna, annà

From Proto-Philippine [Term?], from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *nanaq, from Proto-Austronesian *naNaq.

nana

1. pus (fluid found in regions of infection)

nana

1. Rōmaji transcription of なな

From Proto-Philippine [Term?], from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *nanaq, from Proto-Austronesian *naNaq.

• IPA^(key): /ˈnanəʔ/, [ˈnäː.nəʔ]

nánâ

1. (pathology) pus

nana

1. eight

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nana

1. I

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈnaː.na/, [ˈnäːnä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈna.na/, [ˈnäːnä]

nāna f (genitive nānae); first declension

1. dwarf (female)

First-declension noun.

• nānus

• “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

• nanā (Courland)

From Proto-Finnic *nenä.

nana

1. nose

• IPA^(key): /ˈnana/

nana

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

Borrowed from Tamil அண்ணா (aṇṇā).

• (Johor-Selangor) IPA^(key): /nanə/
• (Riau-Lingga) IPA^(key): /nana/
• Rhymes: -anə, -nə, -ə

nana (Jawi spelling نان, plural nana-nana, informal 1st possessive nanaku, 2nd possessive nanamu, 3rd possessive nananya)

1. brother (older male sibling)

• abang
• kakak
• engko
• uda

nana

1. pus

From Proto-Polynesian *naa-naa (“to look at something”).[1][2] Doublet of nānā.

nana

1. lo, look, see, behold (imperative).

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nana

1. eyebrow

• “nana” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.

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• (phonetic) IPA^(key): [nʲɑːnʲɑ], (enunciated) [nʲɑ nʲɑ]
• (phonemic) IPA^(key): /nʲæɰnʲæɰ/
• Bender phonemes: {nahnah}

nana

1. bad
2. wicked
3. evil
4. inedible

• Marshallese–English Online Dictionary

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *nanaq, from Proto-Austronesian *naNaq.

nanà

1. pus

nana

1. mother

• IPA^(key): [ˈna.na]
• Hyphenation: na‧na

nana

1. everything

nana

1. all

• Shirley Burtch (1983) Diccionario Huitoto Murui (Tomo I) (Linguistica Peruana No. 20)‎ (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.‎, Townsville: James Cook University press (PhD thesis), page 154

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *nanaq, from Proto-Austronesian *naNaq.

nana (mutated form nana)

1. pus (fluid found in regions of infection)

Compare Cahuilla náxanish

• IPA^(key): /nana/

nana (plural naana)

1. man

nana

1. attributive of nanus

nana

1. skin, hide

• Rhymes: -ɐnɐ

nana f (plural nanas)

1. nap; a quick or little sleep

   Synonyms: soneca, cochilo

nana

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

nana

1. aunt

nanà

1. pus

Of expressive/onomatopoetic origin.

• IPA^(key): /nǎːna/
• Hyphenation: na‧na
• Rhymes: -ǎːna

nána f (Cyrillic spelling на́на)

1. mother
2. grandmother

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish نعنع (nane), from Arabic نَعْنَع (naʕnaʕ), نَعْنَاع (naʕnāʕ).

• IPA^(key): /nǎːna/
• Hyphenation: na‧na
• Rhymes: -ǎːna

nána f (Cyrillic spelling на́на)

1. mint

   Synonym: mètvica

• “nana” in Hrvatski jezični portal
• “nana” in Hrvatski jezični portal

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *nanaq, from Proto-Austronesian *naNaq.

nana

1. pus (fluid found in regions of infection)

Echoic/imitative.

• IPA^(key): /ˈnana/ [ˈna.na]

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• Rhymes: -ana
• Syllabification: na‧na

nana f (plural nanas)

1. (Latin America) nanny

   Synonyms: niñera, ama

2. (colloquial) granny, grandmother

   Synonyms: abuela, yaya

3. (Chile) housekeeper
4. lullaby

   Synonym: canción de cuna

5. a kind of small sack
6. (dated, Guatemala) mommy; mom; mother

• tata

Borrowed from Quechua nanay (“pain”).

nana f (plural nanas)

1. (Argentina, Chile, Paraguay, childish) small wound, scratch or painful bump

   Synonyms: pupa, yaya

2. (Argentina, Uruguay, mostly in the plural) pains and aches of old age

   Synonym: achaque

• “nana”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *nanaq, from Proto-Austronesian *naNaq.

• IPA^(key): /ˈnanaʔ/, [ˈna.nɐʔ]
• Hyphenation: na‧na

nanà (Baybayin spelling ᜈᜈ)

1. pus; matter

   Synonym: agwasa

From Philippine Spanish nana (“mommy”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈnana/, [ˈna.nɐ]
• Hyphenation: na‧na

nana (Baybayin spelling ᜈᜈ)

1. aunt

   Synonyms: tiya, tita, tiyang, tiyahin, ale, ante, inda

2. (obsolete, Standard Tagalog) mother

   Synonyms: ina, nanay, mama

• tata

• IPA^(key): /naˈnaʔ/, [nɐˈnaʔ]
• Hyphenation: na‧na

nanâ (Baybayin spelling ᜈᜈ)

1. (obsolete) name of the Baybayin letter ᜈ, corresponding to "na"

• “nana”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
• Noceda, Fr. Juan José de, Sanlucar, Fr. Pedro de (1860) Vocabulario de la lengua tagala, compuesto por varios religiosos doctos y graves‎ (in Spanish), Manila: Ramirez y Giraudier
• San Buena Ventura, Fr. Pedro de (1613) Juan de Silva, editor, Vocabulario de lengua tagala: El romance castellano puesto primero‎, La Noble Villa de Pila
  • page 409: “Materia) Nana (pp) de la llaga [o herida]”
  • page 439: “N) Nana (pc) Vna delas letras del Abeçedario Tagalog. |. Nana yaon .|. ᜈ . Aralan mo aco nang pagſulat nang iniong Nana, enſeñame a eſcriuir bueſtra letra .N.”
  • page 487: “Podre) Nana (pp) q̃ ſale de la herida.”

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• IPA^(key): [nana]

nana

1. bye, goodbye

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *nanaq.

nana

1. pus

• ᯉᯉ

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *nanaq, from Proto-Austronesian *naNaq.

nana (Batak spelling ᯉᯉ)

1. pus (fluid found in regions of infection)

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nana

1. that

• 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)

nanà

1. pus; abscess

nana

1. mother.

naná

1. pus; abscess