mena
Catalan
editEtymology 1
editInherited from Vulgar Latin *mīna, *mēna, from Gaulish *meina (“mineral, ore”). Doublet of mina<t:mine>. First attested in 1185.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editmena f (plural menes)
- (mineralogy) ore
- sort, kind, type
- (nautical) strand (of a rope)
- (nautical) thickness, size (especially of a rope)
Etymology 2
editPronunciation
editNoun
editmena f (plural menes)
Noun
editmena m or f by sense (plural menes)
Etymology 3
editSee the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Pronunciation
editVerb
editmena
- inflection of menar:
Further reading
edit- “mena” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “mena”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
- “mena” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “mena” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
French
editVerb
editmena
- third-person singular past historic of mener
Anagrams
editGothic
editRomanization
editmēna
- Romanization of 𐌼𐌴𐌽𐌰
Hausa
editPronunciation
editNoun
editmēnā̀ f (possessed form mēnàr̃)
Italian
editEtymology 1
editPronunciation
editNoun
editmena f (plural mene)
- plot, conspiracy
- Synonyms: complotto, trama, intrigo, macchinazione
Etymology 2
editPronunciation
editVerb
editmena
- inflection of menare:
References
edit- ↑ 1.0 1.1 mena in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
Anagrams
editKikuyu
editPronunciation
editVerb
editmena (infinitive kũmena)
Antonyms
editDerived terms
edit(Nouns)
- mũmeni class 1
(Proverbs)
Related terms
edit(Nouns)
- rũmena class 11
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ Mugu, Muturi Anthony (2014). "Antonymy in Gĩkũyũ: a cognitive semantics approach", p. 29.
- Armstrong, Lilias E. (1940). The Phonetic and Tonal Structure of Kikuyu, p. 362. Rep. 1967. (Also in 2018 by Routledge).
Kituba
editVerb
editmena
- to grow (as plants do)
Lithuanian
editPronunciation
editVerb
editmẽna
Malagasy
editPronunciation
editAudio: (file)
Adjective
editmena
- red
- (dialectal, Bara, figuratively) angry
See also
editfotsy | volombatolalaka ; vatolalaka | mainty ; ngaly |
mena ; horàka; menapina ; jaky ; dorehitra | haboka ; heza; fiana ; manja ; lañary | vony ; hasaka |
maitso | ||
manga | ||
volomparasy ; katso ; lalena; angana | volomparasy ; katso ; lalena | mavokely |
Murui Huitoto
edit← 1 | 2 | 3 → |
---|---|---|
Cardinal: mena Adverbial: menakaño |
Etymology
editCognates include Minica Huitoto mena and Nüpode Huitoto mena.
Pronunciation
editNumeral
editmena
Derived terms
editReferences
edit- Shirley Burtch (1983) Diccionario Huitoto Murui (Tomo I) (Linguistica Peruana No. 20)[3] (in Spanish), Yarinacocha, Peru: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, page 176
- Katarzyna Izabela Wojtylak (2017) A grammar of Murui (Bue): a Witotoan language of Northwest Amazonia.[4], Townsville: James Cook University press (PhD thesis), page 148
Occitan
editPronunciation
editNoun
editmena f (plural menas)
- type, sort, kind
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Further reading
editOld Swedish
editVerb
editmena
- to mean
Conjugation
editpresent | past | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
infinitive | mēna | — | |||
participle | mēnandi, mēnande | mēnder | |||
active voice | indicative | subjunctive | imperative | indicative | subjunctive |
iæk | mēnir | mēni, mēne | — | mēndi, mēnde | mēndi, mēnde |
þū | mēnir | mēni, mēne | mēn | mēndi, mēnde | mēndi, mēnde |
han | mēnir | mēni, mēne | — | mēndi, mēnde | mēndi, mēnde |
vīr | mēnum, mēnom | mēnum, mēnom | mēnum, mēnom | mēndum, mēndom | mēndum, mēndom |
īr | mēnin | mēnin | mēnin | mēndin | mēndin |
þēr | mēna | mēnin | — | mēndu, mēndo | mēndin |
mediopassive voice | indicative | subjunctive | imperative | indicative | subjunctive |
iæk | mēnis | mēnis, mēnes | — | mēndis, mēndes | mēndis, mēndes |
þū | mēnis | mēnis, mēnes | — | mēndis, mēndes | mēndis, mēndes |
han | mēnis | mēnis, mēnes | — | mēndis, mēndes | mēndis, mēndes |
vīr | mēnums, mēnoms | mēnums, mēnoms | — | mēndums, mēndoms | mēndums, mēndoms |
īr | mēnins | mēnins | — | mēndins | mēndins |
þēr | mēnas | mēnins | — | mēndus, mēndos | mēndins |
Verb
editmēna
Conjugation
editpresent | past | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
infinitive | mēna | — | |||
participle | mēnandi, -e | mēnaþer | |||
active voice | indicative | subjunctive | imperative | indicative | subjunctive |
iæk | mēnar | mēni, -e | — | mēnaþi, -e | mēnaþi, -e |
þū | mēnar | mēni, -e | mēna | mēnaþi, -e | mēnaþi, -e |
han | mēnar | mēni, -e | — | mēnaþi, -e | mēnaþi, -e |
vīr | mēnum, -om | mēnum, -om | mēnum, -om | mēnaþum, -om | mēnaþum, -om |
īr | mēnin | mēnin | mēnin | mēnaþin | mēnaþin |
þēr | mēna | mēnin | — | mēnaþu, -o | mēnaþin |
mediopassive voice | indicative | subjunctive | imperative | indicative | subjunctive |
iæk | mēnas | mēnis, -es | — | mēnaþis, -es | mēnaþis, -es |
þū | mēnas | mēnis, -es | — | mēnaþis, -es | mēnaþis, -es |
han | mēnas | mēnis, -es | — | mēnaþis, -es | mēnaþis, -es |
vīr | mēnums, -oms | mēnums, -oms | — | mēnaþums, -oms | mēnaþums, -oms |
īr | mēnins | mēnins | — | mēnaþins | mēnaþins |
þēr | mēnas | mēnins | — | mēnaþus, -os | mēnaþins |
Old Tupi
editEtymology
editInherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *men, from Proto-Tupian *men.[1][2]
Cognate with Paraguayan Guaraní ména.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editmena (possessable)
Related terms
editDescendants
edit- Nheengatu: mena
References
edit- ^ Beatriz Carretta Corrêa da Silva (2010) Mawé/Awetí/Tupí-Guaraní: relações linguísticas e implicações históricas[1] (in Portuguese), Brasília: UnB
- ^ Aryon d'Alligna Rodrigues (2007) “As consoantes do proto-tupí”, in Aryon d'Alligna Rodrigues, Ana Suelly Arruda Câmara Cabral, editors, Línguas e culturas tupí[2], 1 edition, volume 1, Campinas: Curt Nimuendajú, pages 167–204
Further reading
edit- Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “mena”, in Dicionário de tupi antigo: a língua indígena clássica do Brasil [Dictionary of Old Tupi: The Classical Indigenous Language of Brazil] (overall work in Portuguese), São Paulo: Global, →ISBN, page 277, column 1
Serbo-Croatian
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editInherited from Proto-Slavic *měna.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editména f (Cyrillic spelling ме́на)
Declension
editReferences
edit- “mena” in Hrvatski jezični portal
Slovak
editPronunciation
editEtymology 1
editNoun
editmena f
- currency (finance)
Declension
edit
Derived terms
editEtymology 2
editSee the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Noun
editmena n
Further reading
edit- “mena”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024
Sotho
editVerb
editmena
Spanish
editPronunciation
editEtymology 1
editNoun
editmena f (plural menas)
Etymology 2
editNoun
editmena m or f by sense (plural menas)
- Alternative letter-case form of MENA
Etymology 3
editSee the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
editmena
- inflection of menar:
Further reading
edit- “mena”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Swedish
editEtymology
editFrom Old Swedish mena, from Middle Low German mēnen, meinen (compare Icelandic meina, Danish mene), from Old Saxon mēnian, from Proto-Germanic *mainijaną, from Proto-Indo-European *mein-.
Pronunciation
editVerb
editmena (present menar, preterite menade, supine menat, imperative mena)
- to mean; to convey, or to want to convey
- to mean; to be of the opinion that or to have as one's conviction
- to mean; to have as one's intention
Conjugation
editActive | Passive | |||
---|---|---|---|---|
Infinitive | mena | menas | ||
Supine | menat | menats | ||
Imperative | mena | — | ||
Imper. plural1 | menen | — | ||
Present | Past | Present | Past | |
Indicative | menar | menade | menas | menades |
Ind. plural1 | mena | menade | menas | menades |
Subjunctive2 | mene | menade | menes | menades |
Participles | ||||
Present participle | menande | |||
Past participle | menad | |||
1 Archaic. 2 Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs. |
Related terms
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- Catalan nouns
- Catalan countable nouns
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- ca:Mineralogy
- ca:Nautical
- Catalan colloquialisms
- Balearic Catalan
- Catalan masculine nouns ending in -a
- Catalan masculine nouns
- Catalan nouns with multiple genders
- Catalan masculine and feminine nouns by sense
- Catalan non-lemma forms
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- French non-lemma forms
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- Gothic non-lemma forms
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- Hausa terms with IPA pronunciation
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- ha:Mammals
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- tpw:Male family members
- tpw:Marriage
- Serbo-Croatian terms inherited from Proto-Slavic
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- sk:Money
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