"MENA" meaning in All languages combined

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Proper name [English]

Head templates: {{en-proper noun}} MENA
  1. (politics) Initialism of Middle East News Agency (a Cairo-based news agency, established 1955, nationalized and affiliated to the Egyptian Ministry of Information in 1960.) Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Alternative form of: Middle East News Agency (extra: a Cairo-based news agency, established 1955, nationalized and affiliated to the Egyptian Ministry of Information in 1960.) Categories (topical): Politics Categories (place): Middle East
    Sense id: en-MENA-en-name-v2ArY-vg Disambiguation of Middle East: 46 54 Categories (other): English links with redundant alt parameters Topics: government, politics
  2. (politics) Initialism of Middle East and North Africa. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Alternative form of: Middle East and North Africa Categories (topical): Politics Categories (place): Middle East
    Sense id: en-MENA-en-name-4mJK0nDO Disambiguation of Middle East: 46 54 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 27 73 Topics: government, politics
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: MENAFATF Related terms: EMEA, EMEAI, EMEIA

Noun [Spanish]

IPA: /ˈmena/, [ˈme.na] Forms: MENAS [plural]
Rhymes: -ena Head templates: {{es-noun|mfbysense|MENAS}} MENA m or f by sense (plural MENAS)
  1. (Spain) Acronym of menor extranjero no acompañado m., menor extranjera no acompañada f (“unaccompanied foreign minor”) Tags: Spain, abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, by-personal-gender, feminine, masculine Alternative form of: menor extranjero no acompañado m (extra: menor extranjera no acompañada f (“unaccompanied foreign minor”)) Synonyms: mena

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

Download JSON data for MENA meaning in All languages combined (5.8kB)

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