nana

An aphetic form of banana.

• enPR: näʹnə, IPA^(key): /ˈnɑːnə/
• Rhymes: -ɑːnə

nana (plural nanas)

1. (informal) A banana, the fruit.
2. (slang) A fool.

   You look a right nana dressed up like that.

Variant spelling of nanna.

• enPR: nănʹə, IPA^(key): /ˈnænə/
• Rhymes: -ænə

nana (plural nanas)

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

• A.A.N.N., Anna, anna, naan

nana

1. feminine singular of nanu

nana

1. Past tense of na.

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

nana f (plural nanes)

1. female equivalent of nan

nana

1. feminine singular of nan

• Hyphenation: na‧na

nana

1. (uncountable) pus

• nanna

nana

1. something

nana

1. him (3rd person singular accusative)

nana

1. war

From Latin nanus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈnana/

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

1. dwarf

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/

nana f (plural nanas)

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

• “nana” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• 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 2006-2012.
• “nana” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “nana” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “nana” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.

nana

1. that

• nanda

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

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

nana

1. feminine singular of nano

nana f (plural nane)

1. (female) dwarf

• Anna

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

nana

1. I

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈnaː.na/

nāna f (genitive nānae); first declension

1. dwarf (female)

First declension.

• 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 and 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 first-person possessive nanaku, informal second-person possessive nanamu, third-person possessive nananya)

1. brother (older male sibling)

• abang
• kakak
• engko
• uda

• MED phonemes: {nahnah}
• IPA^(key): /nʲaɰnʲaɰ/, [nʲæ͡ɑɑ̯nʲæ͡ɑɑ̯]

nana

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

• Marshallese–English Online Dictionary

From Proto-Sunda-Sulawesi *nanah, 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

nana f (plural nanas)

1. nap; a quick or little sleep

nana

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

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 (naʿnaʿ), نَعْنَاع‎ (naʿnāʿ).

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

nána f (Cyrillic spelling на́на)

1. mint

• mètvica

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

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

nana

1. pus (fluid found in regions of infection)

Echoic/imitative.

IPA^(key): [nana]

nana f (plural nanas)

1. (Latin America) nanny
2. (colloquial) granny, grandmother
3. lullaby

• (nanny): niñera
• (granny): abuela, yaya
• (lullaby): canción de cuna

nanà

1. pus; matter

nana

1. aunt

nana

1. bye, goodbye

• ᯉᯉ

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

nana (Batak spelling ᯉᯉ)

1. pus (fluid found in regions of infection)

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