tuna

• (General Australian, UK) enPR: tyo͞o'nə, IPA^(key): /ˈtjuː.nə/
• (US) enPR: to͞o'nə, IPA^(key): /ˈtu.nə/, /ˈtju.nə/

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• Rhymes: -uːnə

Relative sizes of various tunas tuna on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

From American Spanish alteration of the Spanish atún, from Arabic تُنّ‎ (tunn, “tuna”), from Latin thunnus, itself from Ancient Greek θύννος (thúnnos), from θύνω (thúnō), "I rush, dart along"). (Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?)

tuna (countable and uncountable, plural tuna or tunas)

1. Any of several species of fish of the genus Thunnus in the family Scombridae.
2. The edible flesh of the tuna.

• tuna fish, tunny

• yellowfin tuna

• tuna on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Thunnus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

Taíno

Prickly pear.

tuna (plural tunas)

1. The prickly pear, a type of cactus native to Mexico in the genus Opuntia.
2. The fruit of the cactus.

• xoconostle

• Opuntia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Opuntia on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Opuntia on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

• -naut, aunt, naut., tuan

From Proto-Carib *tuna.

tuna

1. water
2. rain

• Journal of the Walter Roth Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, issue 13 (2001), page 12: "(Both Kapon and Pemon groups use tuna to mean "water", but Pemon employ konok which specifically means "rain" - a word which is lacking in the Akawaio language so that tuna is used to refer to rain and to water in general.)"

tuna

1. water

• paru

• Edward Henry Koehn, Sally Sharp Koehn, Vocabulário Básico, Apalaí-Português Dicionário da Língua Apalaí (1995), page 52

tuna

1. water

• Aquiles, Pérez, Los puruhuayes, volume 2, page 314 (1970)
• Willem F. H. Adelaar, The Languages of the Andes

tuna

1. (Carijona) water

• túuna (Hianacoto)

• Las lenguas indígenas de América y el español de Cuba (1993)

tuna

1. water

• Bartolomé Tavera-Acosta, En el sur: (Dialectos indígenas de Venezuela) (1907), page 317

tuna

1. (transitive) to laud, to praise

tuna

1. water

• Bartolomé Tavera-Acosta, En el sur: (Dialectos indígenas de Venezuela) (1907), page 317
• Misiones jesuíticas en la Orinoquía (1625-1767) (1992, José del Rey Fajardo, ‎Universidad Católica del Táchira), page 573: agua Tam. tuna; Map. tuna; Yab. tuna; Chai, tuna; Cum. tuna;

tuna f

1. ton (unit of weight)

• tuna in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• tuna in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

• Homophones: tunas, tunât

tuna

1. third-person singular past historic of tuner

From Proto-Carib *tuna.

tuna

1. water

• The Languages of the Andes (2004, Willem F. H. Adelaar, Pieter C. Muysken)

From Proto-Carib *tuna.

tuna

1. water

• This term is obligatorily unpossessed.

• Languages of the Amazon (2012, →ISBN, page 170

tuna

1. damaged

tuna

1. water

• Bartolomé Tavera-Acosta, En el sur: (Dialectos indígenas de Venezuela) (1907), page 317
• Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald, Languages of the Amazon (2012), page 188

• IPA^(key): [ˈtʉ.na]

tuna

1. eel

tuna

1. water

• Bartolomé Tavera-Acosta, En el sur: (Dialectos indígenas de Venezuela) (1907), page 317
• Misiones jesuíticas en la Orinoquía (1625-1767) (1992, José del Rey Fajardo, ‎Universidad Católica del Táchira), page 573: agua Tam. tuna; Map. tuna; Yab. tuna; Chai, tuna; Cum. tuna;

From Proto-Carib *tuna.

tuna

1. water
2. river, watercourse

• Ed. Key, Mary Ritchie and Comrie, Bernard. The Intercontinental Dictionary Series, Carib (De'kwana).

tuna n

1. definite plural of tun

tuna

1. water

• tuná-in'i /tuna-iño

• Caminos de historia en el Carare-Opón (1999), page 254: Agua . . . Tuna
• Boletín de la Academia Colombiana (1959): en el Opón-Karare: tuna

tuna

1. Alternative form of tïna

• Bartolomé Tavera-Acosta, En el sur: (Dialectos indígenas de Venezuela) (1907), page 317
• Jean-Paul Dumont, Under the Rainbow: Nature and Supernature among the Panare (2014)
• Marie-Claude Mattei Müller, Yoroko: a Panare shaman's confidences (1992), page 141

From Proto-Carib *tuna.

• IPA^(key): /tuˈna/[1]

tuna

1. water

• Journal of the Walter Roth Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, issue 13 (2001), page 12: "(Both Kapon and Pemon groups use tuna to mean "water", but Pemon employ konok which specifically means "rain" - a word which is lacking in the Akawaio language so that tuna is used to refer to rain and to water in general.)"

• Katia Nepomuceno Pessoa, Fonologia Taurepang e comparação preliminar da fonologia de línguas do grupo Pemóng (família Caribe) (2006), page 139

From tunar.

tuna

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

Borrowed from Spanish tuna (“singing group”).

tuna f (plural tunas)

1. (music) a college singing group, wearing ornate clothes

• tuno

• tuna on the Portuguese Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^pt

tuná

1. water

• Vom Roraima zum Orinoco, volume 4
• Revista andina, volume 11 (1993), page 451

tuna

1. prickly pear cactus (Opuntia) and its fruit

From Latin tonāre, present active infinitive of tonō, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tenh₂- (“to thunder”).

a tuna (third-person singular present tună, past participle tunat) 1st conj.

1. to thunder
2. to speak thunderously

• tunare

• detuna
• tunet
• tun

• fulgera
• trăsni

tuna

1. eel

tu꞉ná

1. water

• Vom Roraima zum Orinoco, volume 4
• Revista andina, volume 11 (1993), page 451

• IPA^(key): /ˈtuna/, [ˈt̪una]

From Taíno

tuna f (plural tunas)

1. prickly pear, the fruit of the nopal cactus (Opuntia, especially Opuntia ficus-indica).
2. nopal

• Tuna is a false friend, and does not mean a kind of fish in Spanish. Spanish equivalents are shown above, in the "Translations" section of the English entry tuna.

• (prickly pear): higo de tuna
• (nopal): nopal, higuera de tuna, higuera de Indias

From French tune, possibly from roi de Thunes (“king of Tunis”), a title used by leaders of vagabonds.

tuna f (plural tunas)

1. (Spain) a college singing group, wearing ornate clothes, called in the Americas estudiantina

• Portuguese: tuna

• Tuna (music) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

tuna

1. water

• Bartolomé Tavera-Acosta, En el sur: (Dialectos indígenas de Venezuela) (1907), page 316-7
• Misiones jesuíticas en la Orinoquía (1625-1767) (1992, José del Rey Fajardo, ‎Universidad Católica del Táchira), page 573: agua Tam. tuna; Map. tuna; Yab. tuna; Chai, tuna; Cum. tuna;

tuna

1. water

• Eithne Carlin, A Grammar of Trio: A Cariban Language of Suriname (2004)

tuna

1. water

• Sergio Meira, Primeras observaciones sobre la lengua yukpa (2005) (mentions "wayana tuna he wai " in notes)

tuná

1. water

• Vom Roraima zum Orinoco, volume 4
• Revista andina, volume 11 (1993), page 451

tuna

1. water

• Bartolomé Tavera-Acosta, En el sur: (Dialectos indígenas de Venezuela) (1907), page 317
• Misiones jesuíticas en la Orinoquía (1625-1767) (1992, José del Rey Fajardo, ‎Universidad Católica del Táchira), page 573: agua Tam. tuna; Map. tuna; Yab. tuna; Chai, tuna; Cum. tuna;