jana

See also: Jana, jaña, and Jāņa

Finnish

Etymology

From a dialectal word meaning "row, line". First instance of the modern meaning in geometry is from 1860.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈjɑnɑ/, [ˈjɑnɑ]
  • Hyphenation: ja‧na
  • Rhymes: -ɑnɑ

Noun

jana

  1. (geometry) line segment

Declension
Inflection of jana (Kotus type 9/kala, no gradation)
nominative jana janat
genitive janan janojen
partitive janaa janoja
illative janaan janoihin
singular plural
nominative jana janat
accusative nom. jana janat
gen. janan
genitive janan janojen
janainrare
partitive janaa janoja
inessive janassa janoissa
elative janasta janoista
illative janaan janoihin
adessive janalla janoilla
ablative janalta janoilta
allative janalle janoille
essive janana janoina
translative janaksi janoiksi
instructive — janoin
abessive janatta janoitta
comitative — janoineen

Derived terms

Anagrams

Maquiritari

Alternative forms

Noun

jana

  1. (Ye'kwana dialect) ear

References
  • Ed. Key, Mary Ritchie and Comrie, Bernard. The Intercontinental Dictionary Series, Carib (De'kwana).
  • Cáceres, Natalia. Grammaire Fonctionelle-Typologique du Ye'kwana.

Pali

Etymology

From Sanskrit जन (jana)

Alternative forms
Alternative forms
  • 𑀚𑀦 (Brahmi script)
  • जन (Devanagari script)
  • জন (Bengali script)
  • ජන (Sinhalese script)
  • ဇန (Burmese script)
  • ชน (Thai script)
  • ᨩᨶ (Tai Tham script)
  • ជន (Khmer script)

Noun

jana m

  1. person; man; people

Declension
Declension table of "jana" (masculine)
Case \ NumberSingularPlural
Nominative (first)janojanā
Accusative (second)janaṃjane
Instrumental (third)janenajanehi or janebhi
Dative (fourth)janassa or janāya or janatthaṃjanānaṃ
Ablative (fifth)janasmā or janamhā or janājanehi or janebhi
Genitive (sixth)janassajanānaṃ
Locative (seventh)janasmiṃ or janamhi or janejanesu
Vocative (calling)janajanā

Descendants
  • Burmese: ဇန (ja.na.)

References

jana in Pali Text Society (1921–1925), Pali-English Dictionary, London: Chipstead. (licensed under CC-BY-NC)

Swahili

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ʄana/

Etymology 1

Adverb

jana

  1. yesterday

Noun

jana (n class, plural jana)

  1. yesterday

Etymology 2

From the root of mwana.

Noun

jana (ma class, plural majana)

  1. Augmentative of mwana: large child
  2. larva, grub

Derived terms

Zulu

Alternative forms

Etymology

From -de (“long, tall”) +‎ -ana (diminutive).

Pronunciation

IPA(key): /dʒaːna/

Adjective

-jana

  1. rather long
  2. fairly tall

Inflection
Adjective concord
Modifier Copulative
positive negative positive negative
1st singular engimjana engingemjana ngimjana angimjana
2nd singular omjana ongemjana umjana awumjana
1st plural esibajana esingebajana sibajana asibajana
2nd plural enibajana eningebajana nibajana anibajana
Class 1 omjana ongemjana mjana akamjana
Class 2 abajana abangebajana bajana ababajana
Class 3 omjana ongemjana mjana awumjana
Class 4 emijana engemijana mijana ayimijana
Class 5 elijana elingelijana lijana alilijana
Class 6 amajana angemajana majana awamajana
Class 7 esijana esingesijana sijana asisijana
Class 8 ezinjana ezingezinjana zinjana azizinjana
Class 9 enjana engenjana, engeyinjana injana, yinjana ayiyinjana
Class 10 ezinjana ezingezinjana zinjana azizinjana
Class 11 olujana olungelujana lujana alulujana
Class 14 obujana obungebujana bujana abubujana
Class 15 okujana okungekujana kujana akukujana
Class 17 okujana okungekujana kujana akukujana

References

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

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