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kana

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Japanese 仮名(かな) (kana, “phonetic character”, literally “borrowed character”, from the way that kana were originally Chinese characters "borrowed" for their phonetic values).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkɑːnə/, [ˈkʰɑːnə]
  • Rhymes: -ɑːnə

Noun

kana (plural kana or kanas)

  1. The hiragana and katakana syllabaries. These are made up of characters that represent individual syllables, which are used to write Japanese words and particles. Kana are derived from kanji.
  2. A hiragana or katakana character.
Related terms
Translations

Etymology 2

Verb

kana (invariable)

  1. (Singapore, Singlish) Alternative form of kena

Anagrams

  • Akan, knaa, naka

Apalaí

Etymology

From Proto-Cariban *kana (“fish”).

Noun

kana

  1. fish

Atong (India)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kana/

Noun

kana (Bengali script কানা)

  1. blind person

References

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

Balinese

Romanization

kana

  1. Romanization of ᬓᬦ
  2. Romanization of ᬓᬦᬵ

Big Nambas

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkana/

Pronoun

kana

  1. I

References

  • Big Nambas Grammar Pacific Linguistics - G.J. Fox

Breton

Etymology

From Middle Breton canaff, from Proto-Brythonic *kėnɨd (compare Welsh canu), from Proto-Celtic *kaneti (“to sing”) (compare Irish canadh), from Proto-Indo-European *keh₂n-.

Verb

kana

  1. to sing

Mutation

Cebuano

Alternative forms

  • na — short form, only used mid-sentence

Etymology

Initial "ka-" is shared with other demonstratives kari (“this”), kani (“this”) and kadto (“that”). Related to dinha (“there”), nganha (“hither”), anaa (“there be”), and anha (“to go”), in a similar pattern with other Cebuano demonstrative pronouns. Compare Hiligaynon ina, Tagalog iyan.

Pronunciation

IPA(key): /kaˈnaʔ/ [kɐˈn̪aʔ]

  • Hyphenation: ka‧na

Adverb

kanâ

  1. that (near the listener)

See also

Chuukese

Determiner

kana

  1. (possessive subject marker) those

Related terms

  • ekkana

Czech

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈkana]

Verb

kana

  1. masculine singular present transgressive of kanout

Estonian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *kana, from Proto-Germanic *hanô. Cognates include Finnish kana.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkɑnɑ/, [ˈkɑnɑ]
  • Hyphenation: ka‧na
  • Rhymes: -ɑnɑ

Noun

kana (genitive kana, partitive kana)

  1. chicken
  2. (specifically) hen

Declension

Derived terms

See also

  • kukk

References

  • “kana”, in [ÕS] Eesti õigekeelsussõnaraamat ÕS 2018 [Estonian Spelling Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2018, →ISBN

Fijian

Etymology

From Proto-Central-Pacific *kani, from Proto-Oceanic *kani, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kaən, from Proto-Austronesian *kaən.

Verb

kana

  1. to eat (consume)

Noun

kana

  1. meal

Finnish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkɑnɑ/, [ˈkɑ̝nɑ̝]
  • Rhymes: -ɑnɑ
  • Syllabification(key): ka‧na
  • Hyphenation(key): ka‧na

Etymology 1

From Proto-Finnic *kana, borrowed from Proto-Germanic *hanô (“rooster, cock”), from Proto-Indo-European *keh₂n- (“to sing”). Cognates include Estonian kana, English hen.

Noun

kana

  1. chicken (domestic fowl of species Gallus gallus, Gallus domesticus)
    Synonyms: kaakattaja, munija, (collective) siipikarja
    kanalintu ― gallinaceous bird
    1. chicken (meat from this bird eaten as food)
      Synonym: kananliha
  2. hen (female chicken)
  3. hen (female of other bird species, particularly a sexually mature female fowl)
  4. (derogatory) An unintelligent, talkative woman.
    Synonym: kanamainen nainen
  5. (archaic) woman, sweetheart
    Synonyms: (archaic) kulta, rakastajatar, vaimo, nainen
Usage notes

The word kana usually refers to a mature bird. The Finnish translation for "chicken" in the sense "young hen" is kananpoika or broileri.

Declension
Derived terms
See also
  • kaakattaa
  • kotkottaa
  • kynä (“feather”)

References

Further reading

  • “kana”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎[2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-01

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Japanese 仮名(かな) (kana).

Noun

kana

  1. kana (Japanese syllabary)
Declension

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Old Swedish kana.

Noun

kana (dialectal, Lapland, Kymenlaakso)

  1. Synonym of kokka (“bow of a boat”)
Declension
Derived terms

Anagrams

  • -kaan, akan

French

Pronunciation

Noun

kana m (plural kanas)

  1. kana

Further reading

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

Hanunoo

Etymology

Compare Tagalog kina.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkana/ [ˈkɐ.na]
  • Rhymes: -ana
  • Syllabification: ka‧na

Preposition

kana (Hanunoo spelling ᜣᜨ)

  1. used to mark oblique cases of personal nouns: to; toward; of; from; etc.
    kana Gawid ― to/for/of/from Gawid and his companions, family, etc.

Usage notes

  • Used for multiple people. When referring to a single person, use kan.
  • Even if only one person's name was mentioned, a group of people that includes person is implied.

Further reading

  • Conklin, Harold C. (1953) Hanunóo-English Vocabulary (University of California Publications in Linguistics), volume 9, London, England: University of California Press, →OCLC, page 139

Ingrian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *kana. Cognates include Finnish kana and Estonian kana.

Pronunciation

  • (Ala-Laukaa) IPA(key): /ˈkɑnɑ/, [ˈkɑnɑ]
  • (Soikkola) IPA(key): /ˈkɑnɑ/, [ˈkɑnɑ]
  • Rhymes: -ɑnɑ
  • Hyphenation: ka‧na

Noun

kana

  1. hen

Declension

Coordinate terms

  • kukko (“rooster”)

Derived terms

  • (diminutive) kanain

References

  • Fedor Tumansky (1790) “кана”, in Опытъ повѣствованїя о дѣянїях, положенїи, состоянїи и раздѣленїи Санкт-Петербургской губернїи [An experiment of an account of the acts, location, condition and division of the Saint Petersburg gubernia], Краткїй словарь ижерскаго, финскаго, эстонскаго, чюдскаго, и ямскаго нарѣчїя съ россїйскимъ переводомъ [A short dictionary of the Ingrian, Finnish, Estonian, Chud and Yamtian dialects with a Russian translation], page 681
  • V. I. Junus (1936) Iƶoran Keelen Grammatikka‎[3], Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 58
  • Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 130
  • Olga I. Konkova, Nikita A. Dyachkov (2014) Inkeroin Keel: Пособие по Ижорскому Языку‎[4], →ISBN, page 79

Japanese

Romanization

kana

  1. Rōmaji transcription of かな

Kamba

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-nàì.

Numeral

kana

  1. four

Kapampangan

Alternative forms

  • cana (Súlat Bacúlud, Ámung Sámson)

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kəˈna/ [kəˈnä]
  • IPA(key): /kəˈnaʔ/ [kəˈnäʔ]
  • Hyphenation: ka‧na

Determiner

kana or kanâ

  1. put; to place
    Synonym: lage
  2. to leave something somewhere
    Synonym: maglakuwan

Etymology 2

From ka +‎ na.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kəˈna/ [kəˈnä]
  • Hyphenation: ka‧na

Adverb

kana

  1. expression to indicate an uncertainty or doubt; I wonder; maybe
See also

Karelian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *kana. Cognates include Finnish kana and Estonian kana.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkɑnɑ/
  • Hyphenation: ka‧na

Noun

kana (genitive kanan, partitive kanua)

  1. hen

Declension

Derived terms

References

  • A. V. Punzhina (1994) “kana”, in Словарь карельского языка (тверские говоры) [Dictionary of the Karelian language (Tver dialects)], →ISBN
  • P. M. Zaykov et al. (2015) “курица”, in Venäjä-Viena Šanakirja [Russian-Viena Karelian Dictionary], →ISBN

Kikuyu

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kana/

Conjunction

kana

  1. or, whether

References

  • “kana” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 206. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

Lower Sorbian

Etymology

Borrowed from German Kanne, from Proto-Germanic *kannǭ.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈkana]

Noun

kana f (diminutive kanka)

  1. jug, pot (e.g. for coffee or tea)

Declension

Further reading

  • Muka, Arnošt (1921, 1928) “kana”, in Słownik dolnoserbskeje rěcy a jeje narěcow (in German), St. Petersburg, Prague: ОРЯС РАН, ČAVU; Reprinted Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag, 2008
  • Starosta, Manfred (1999) “kana”, in Dolnoserbsko-nimski słownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch (in German), Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag

Ludian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *kana. Cognates include Finnish kana and Veps kana.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkɑnɑ/
  • Rhymes: -ɑnɑ
  • Hyphenation: ka‧na

Noun

kana

  1. chicken

Declension

References

  • Juho Kujola (1944) Lyydiläismurteiden sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 105
  • M. Pahomov (2022) “kana”, in Lüüdi-venän, venä-lüüdin sanakirdʹ‎[5], Helsinki: Lüüdilaine Siebr, →ISBN, page 61

Makasar

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈkana]

Verb

kana (Lontara spelling ᨀᨊ, semi-transitive akkana)

  1. (transitive) to say

Noun

kana (Lontara spelling ᨀᨊ)

  1. word

Mauritian Creole

Etymology

From Hindi खाना (khānā).

Noun

kana

  1. food

References

  • Baker, Philip & Hookoomsing, Vinesh Y. 1987. Dictionnaire de créole mauricien. Morisyen – English – Français

Nheengatu

Etymology

    Inherited from Língua Geral Amazônica kana, borrowed from Portuguese cana, from Old Galician-Portuguese cana, from Latin canna, borrowed from Ancient Greek κᾰ́ννᾱ (kắnnā), borrowed from Akkadian qanûm.

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /ˈkana/, (Rio Negro) [ˈkã.nɐ]
    • Rhymes: -ana
    • Hyphenation: ka‧na

    Noun

    kana (plural kana-itá)

    1. sugar cane (Saccharum officinarum)
      Synonyms: murí-seẽ, tabuka-seẽ

    Related terms

    References

    • Marcel Twardowsky Avila (2021) “kana”, in Proposta de dicionário nheengatu-português [Nheengatu–Portuguese dictionary proposal] (in Portuguese), São Paulo: USP, →DOI, page 367

    Old Javanese

    Etymology 1

    Unknown

    Adverb

    kana

    1. there
    2. then

    Etymology 2

    Unknown, probably from Sanskrit कङ्कण (kaṅkaṇa, “bracelet”).

    Noun

    kana

    1. bracelet
    Descendants
    • → Balinese: ᬓᬦ (kana, “bracelet”)

    Old Tupi

    Etymology

      Borrowed from Portuguese cana, from Old Galician-Portuguese cana, from Latin canna, borrowed from Ancient Greek κᾰ́ννᾱ (kắnnā), borrowed from Akkadian qanûm.

      Noun

      kana (?) (Língua Geral Amazônica)

      1. sugar cane (Saccharum officinarum)
        Synonym: takûare'ẽ

      Descendants

      • Nheengatu: kana

      References

      • Anton Meisterburg (a. 1756) “Cana de assucar”, in [Dicionário de Trier] (overall work in Portuguese and Old Tupi), Baixo Xingu, Pará, page 9r, column 1, line 94; republished as Jean-Claude Muller et al., editors, Dicionário de língua geral amazônica, Potsdam: University of Potsdam, 2019, →DOI, page 127: “cana [kana]”

      Papiamentu

      Etymology

      From Portuguese caminhar and Spanish caminar and Kabuverdianu kaminha.

      Verb

      kana

      1. to walk
      2. to go

      Portuguese

      Noun

      kana m (uncountable)

      1. kana (Japanese syllabaries)

      Rayón Zoque

      Noun

      kana

      1. salt

      Derived terms

      References

      • Harrison, Roy, B. de Harrison, Margaret, López Juárez, Francisco, Ordoñes, Cosme (1984) Vocabulario zoque de Rayón (Serie de diccionarios y vocabularios indígenas Mariano Silva y Aceves; 28)‎[6] (in Spanish), México, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, page 12

      Romani

      Etymology

      Inherited from Sanskrit कदा (kadā).

      Adverb

      kana

      1. when

      Serbo-Croatian

      Etymology 1

      Borrowing from Ottoman Turkish قنا (kına), from Arabic حِنَّاء (ḥinnāʔ).

      Pronunciation

      • IPA(key): /kâna/
      • Hyphenation: ka‧na

      Noun

      kȁna f (Cyrillic spelling ка̏на)

      1. henna (Lawsonia inermis) (shrub; dye)
      Declension

      Etymology 2

      Borrowed from Japanese 仮名 (kana).

      Pronunciation

      • IPA(key): /kǎna/
      • Hyphenation: ka‧na

      Noun

      kàna f (Cyrillic spelling ка̀на)

      1. kana
      Declension

      Swahili

      Pronunciation

      Verb

      -kana (infinitive kukana)

      1. to deny, to reject, to say no, to decline, to negate, to disown

      Conjugation

      Swedish

      Etymology

      (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

      Noun

      kana c

      1. slide (mostly as a toy)

      Declension

      Related terms

      • iskana
      • rutschkana

      Verb

      kana (present kanar, preterite kanade, supine kanat, imperative kana)

      1. to slide (mostly of people or vehicles, relating to icy ground)

      Conjugation

      See also

      • glida

      References

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

      Anagrams

      • anka

      Tagalog

      Etymology 1

      Borrowed from Malay kena (“to contact; to have to do, to need to do; to be precise; deceived”), from Old Malay knā, from Proto-Austronesian *kəNa (“be ensnared, caught in a trap; suffer, undergo, be struck by something; be entrapped or deceived; hit the mark, be ‘on target’, correct, right, true”). Compare Ilocano kenna.

      Pronunciation

      • (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /kaˈnaʔ/ [kɐˈn̪aʔ]
      • Rhymes: -aʔ
      • Syllabification: ka‧na

      Noun

      kanâ (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜈ)

      1. deception; falsity
      2. action or work
        Synonym: gawa
      3. exertion; effort; deed; accomplishment
        Synonym: gawa
      4. application; actualization; appropriation; usage for some purpose
        Synonyms: akma, lapat, kabit
        walang kapapakanan ― no purpose
      5. fighting with the fists
        Synonyms: laban, away, babag, buntalan, suntukan
      6. (obsolete) deception or falsification of the weight of scales
      7. (obsolete) imposition of a penalty or payment
      Derived terms

      Adjective

      kanâ (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜈ)

      1. fixed; set in place
      2. set as a trap; ready; readied (as of a gun)

      Etymology 2

      Pronunciation

      • (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /kaˈnaʔ/ [kɐˈn̪aʔ]
      • Rhymes: -aʔ
      • Syllabification: ka‧na

      Noun

      kanâ (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜈ) (colloquial)

      1. Clipping of amerikana.
      Related terms

      Etymology 3

      Pronunciation

      • (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /kaˈna/ [kɐˈn̪a]
      • Rhymes: -a
      • Syllabification: ka‧na

      Preposition

      kaná (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜈ)

      1. Alternative form of kina

      Etymology 4

      Pronunciation

      • (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /ˈkanaʔ/ [ˈkaː.n̪ɐʔ]
      • Rhymes: -anaʔ
      • Syllabification: ka‧na

      Noun

      kanà (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜈ) (obsolete)

      1. menarche; a woman's first menstruation
        Synonyms: abot-tubo, unang dating

      Further reading

      • “kana”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
      • English, Leo James (1987) Tagalog-English dictionary, Manila, Philippines: National Book Store, →ISBN, page 292
      • San Buena Ventura, Fr. Pedro de (1613) Juan de Silva, editor, Vocabulario de lengua tagala: El romance castellano puesto primero‎[7], La Noble Villa de Pila
        • page 317: “Falſo) Cana (pp) como peſo o romana”
        • page 489: “Poner) Cana (pc) frontal doſeles o otra coſa, o poner recado para baptiçar olear comulgar, &c.”
      • Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*keNa”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

      Anagrams

      • ka- -an, naka-, anak

      Tooro

      Pronunciation

      IPA(key): /kána/

      Adverb

      kana

      1. four times

      Synonyms

      • enyakana
      • emirundi ena

      Turkish

      Noun

      kana

      1. dative singular of kan

      Venda

      Conjunction

      kana

      1. or
      2. nor

      Veps

      Etymology

      From Proto-Finnic *kana, from Proto-Germanic *hanô.

      Noun

      kana

      1. chicken

      Inflection

      Derived terms

      References

      • Zajceva, N. G., Mullonen, M. I. (2007) “курица”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary]‎[8], Petrozavodsk: Periodika

      Võro

      Etymology

      From Proto-Finnic *kana, from Proto-Germanic *hanô. Cognates include Estonian kana.

      Pronunciation

      • IPA(key): /kɑnɑ/

      Noun

      kana (genitive kana, partitive kanna)

      1. chicken

      Inflection

      Votic

      Etymology

      From Proto-Finnic *kana.

      Pronunciation

      • (Luutsa, Liivtšülä) IPA(key): /ˈkɑnɑ/, [ˈkɑnɑ]
      • Rhymes: -ɑnɑ
      • Hyphenation: ka‧na

      Noun

      kana

      1. hen, chicken

      Inflection

      References

      • Hallap, V., Adler, E., Grünberg, S., Leppik, M. (2012) “kana”, in Vadja keele sõnaraamat [A dictionary of the Votic language], 2nd edition, Tallinn

      Warlpiri

      Pronunciation

      • IPA(key): [ˈkɐna]

      Noun

      kana

      1. digging stick

      Ye'kwana

      Etymology

      From Proto-Cariban *kana (“fish”).

      Pronunciation

      • IPA(key): [kana]

      Noun

      kana

      1. Amazon brycon, a fish of species Brycon amazonicus

      References

      • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “kana”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎[9], Lyon
      • Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “kana:”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University
      • Monterrey, Nalúa Rosa Silva (2012) Hombres de curiara y mujeres de conuco. Etnografía de los indigenas Ye’kwana de Venezuela, Ciudad Bolívar: Universidad Nacional Experimental de Guayana, page 36: “kana”

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