nina

From the name Nina, taken from the cartoonist Al Hirschfield's habit of hiding his daughter Nina's name in his drawings.

nina (plural ninas)

1. A hidden message revealed in the completed grid of a crossword.
   • 2008 April 1, Ilan Caron, “Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 24350 set by Brendan”, in rec.puzzles.crosswords, Usenet‎:

     The puzzle itself was fairly easy however there was an elegant nina based on the middle entry (INSIDE STORY) in which each of the across answers hid a synonym of "story", e.g. 5A and 6A were: STABle gendER.

   • 2014 August 10, Brian Bethune, “The crossword’s meandering 100-year journey”, in Maclean's‎:

     Ninas may or may not be present and, even if one is there, it can go unnoticed because, not being intrinsic to the solution, its presence is not advertised—or because it is so well hidden.

   • 2014, Alan Connor, The Crossword Century: 100 Years of Witty Wordplay, Ingenious Puzzles, and Linguistic Mischief, Penguin →ISBN

     Other “personal” ninas are happier and subtler: birthday wishes to loved ones, which, ultimately, have only one intended reader

• Inna, inna

nina

1. fire

• (child): nena

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

nina f (plural nines, masculine nin)

1. (anatomy) pupil
2. (dialectal) girl, female child

• (pupil): pupil·la

From a Vulgar Latin root *ninna, a nursery or infantile word.

nina f

1. mother

From Proto-Finnic *nenä.

nina (genitive nina, partitive nina)

1. (anatomy) nose
2. tip

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

nina

1. Rōmaji transcription of にな

nina

1. Alternative form of ni (water)

• The Papuan Languages of New Guinea (1986, →ISBN

nina

1. name

nina

1. fire for cooking, candle, match

• ninay
• ninayay

nina

1. woman, female

• Dictionary of the Sasak language of Lombok, with Indonesian and English (1995)

From Proto-Nguni *niná.

niná

1. you, you all; second-person plural absolute pronoun.

From Proto-Nguni *niná.

• IPA^(key): /niːná/

niná

1. you, you all; second-person plural absolute pronoun.

• C. M. Doke; B. W. Vilakazi (1972), “nina”, in Zulu-English Dictionary, →ISBN: “nina (6.3)”