Una

See also: Appendix:Variations of "una"

English

Etymology

Anglicized form of Irish Úna. Doublet of Oona.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -uːnə

Proper noun

Una

1. A female given name from Irish.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 2:

     Who after that he had faire Una lorne, / Through light misdeeming of her loialtie, / And false Duessa in her sted had borne, […]

Derived terms

• Una boat

Related terms

• Oona
• Oonagh

Anagrams

• Anu, Nau, añu, nau

Faroese

Proper noun

Una f

1. a female given name

Usage notes

Matronymics

• son of Una: Unuson
• daughter of Una: Unudóttir

Declension

	Singular
	Indefinite
Nominative	Una
Accusative	Unu
Dative	Unu
Genitive	Unu

Latvian

Etymology

First recorded as a given name of Latvians in 1938. From Latin una (“one”), or possibly from English Una.

Proper noun

Una f

1. a female given name

References

• Klāvs Siliņš: Latviešu personvārdu vārdnīca. Riga "Zinātne" 1990, →ISBN
• [1] Population Register of Latvia: Una was the only given name of 1163 persons in Latvia on May 21st 2010.

Portuguese

Proper noun

Una

1. A municipality of Bahia, Brazil