"macana" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: macanas [plural]
Etymology: From Taíno macana. Etymology templates: {{der|en|tnq|macana}} Taíno macana Head templates: {{en-noun}} macana (plural macanas)
  1. A wooden sword-like weapon of various native cultures of Central America and South America. Wikipedia link: es:macana, macana Categories (topical): Weapons Related terms: macahuitl Translations (sword): マカナ (makana) (Japanese)
    Sense id: en-macana-en-noun-Hb1tE9u2 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Japanese terms with redundant script codes

Verb [Polish]

IPA: /maˈt͡sa.na/
Rhymes: -ana Head templates: {{head|pl|participle form}} macana
  1. feminine nominative/vocative singular of macany Tags: feminine, form-of, nominative, participle, singular, vocative Form of: macany
    Sense id: en-macana-pl-verb-15UaQqZD Categories (other): Polish entries with incorrect language header

Noun [Spanish]

IPA: /maˈkana/, [maˈka.na] Forms: macanas [plural]
Rhymes: -ana Etymology: From Taíno macana. Etymology templates: {{der|es|tnq|macana}} Taíno macana Head templates: {{es-noun|f}} macana f (plural macanas)
  1. a type of long club, sometimes studded with sharp pieces of rock, used by the natives of America Tags: feminine
    Sense id: en-macana-es-noun-arLcU4Jp
  2. (Americas, Latin America) baton, nightstick Tags: Latin-America, feminine Categories (topical): Weapons
    Sense id: en-macana-es-noun-6rWXnZT4 Disambiguation of Weapons: 4 35 14 5 2 17 4 14 6 Categories (other): Latin American Spanish
  3. (uncountable) the wood of the peach palm Tags: feminine, uncountable Categories (lifeform): Woods
    Sense id: en-macana-es-noun-p4Bz4Rwe Disambiguation of Woods: 8 13 24 7 5 10 5 18 10 Categories (other): Spanish entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Spanish entries with incorrect language header: 5 4 36 11 2 4 10 17 10
  4. (Argentina, Peru, Uruguay) an unpleasant situation Tags: Argentina, Peru, Uruguay, feminine
    Sense id: en-macana-es-noun-KAFv6-Qy Categories (other): Argentinian Spanish, Peruvian Spanish, Uruguayan Spanish
  5. (Argentina, Peru, Uruguay, Bolivia, Paraguay, colloquial) lie; nonsense, claptrap, tosh Tags: Argentina, Bolivia, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, colloquial, feminine
    Sense id: en-macana-es-noun-xLK5Ugk3 Categories (other): Argentinian Spanish, Bolivian Spanish, Paraguayan Spanish, Peruvian Spanish, Uruguayan Spanish
  6. (Costa Rica, El Savador, Honduras, Nicaragua) a farm tool used to dig small holes Tags: Costa-Rica, Honduras, Nicaragua, feminine Categories (topical): Tools
    Sense id: en-macana-es-noun-I3jSMFOa Disambiguation of Tools: 5 26 4 2 6 39 2 9 5 Categories (other): Costa Rican Spanish, Honduran Spanish, Nicaraguan Spanish
  7. a baluster of a balcony’s balustrade Tags: feminine
    Sense id: en-macana-es-noun-0GdRYYVN
  8. (Mexico) prick, cock Tags: Mexico, feminine
    Sense id: en-macana-es-noun-kHTQE-Jq Categories (other): Mexican Spanish
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: macanazo, macanear, macanudo
Etymology number: 1

Noun [Spanish]

IPA: /maˈkana/, [maˈka.na] Forms: macanas [plural]
Rhymes: -ana Etymology: Uncertain. Etymology templates: {{unc|es}} Uncertain Head templates: {{es-noun|f}} macana f (plural macanas)
  1. a type of thin cotton shawl worn by mestizo women in Bolivia and Ecuador Tags: feminine
    Sense id: en-macana-es-noun-vflYK1b-
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Noun [Taíno]

Head templates: {{head|tnq|noun}} macana
  1. wooden club
    Sense id: en-macana-tnq-noun-lkEYxews Categories (other): Taíno entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

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    "ma‧ca‧na"
  ],
  "lang": "Polish",
  "lang_code": "pl",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Polish 3-syllable words",
        "Polish entries with incorrect language header",
        "Polish non-lemma forms",
        "Polish participle forms",
        "Polish terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "Rhymes:Polish/ana",
        "Rhymes:Polish/ana/3 syllables"
      ],
      "form_of": [
        {
          "word": "macany"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "feminine nominative/vocative singular of macany"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "macany",
          "macany#Polish"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "form-of",
        "nominative",
        "participle",
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/maˈt͡sa.na/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ana"
    }
  ],
  "word": "macana"
}

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  "categories": [
    "Rhymes:Spanish/ana",
    "Rhymes:Spanish/ana/3 syllables",
    "Spanish 3-syllable words",
    "Spanish countable nouns",
    "Spanish entries with incorrect language header",
    "Spanish feminine nouns",
    "Spanish lemmas",
    "Spanish nouns",
    "Spanish terms derived from Taíno",
    "Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "Spanish terms with unknown etymologies",
    "es:Tools",
    "es:Weapons",
    "es:Woods"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "macanazo"
    },
    {
      "word": "macanear"
    },
    {
      "word": "macanudo"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_number": 1,
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "es",
        "2": "tnq",
        "3": "macana"
      },
      "expansion": "Taíno macana",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Taíno macana.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "macanas",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "f"
      },
      "expansion": "macana f (plural macanas)",
      "name": "es-noun"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "ma‧ca‧na"
  ],
  "lang": "Spanish",
  "lang_code": "es",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Spanish terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "A big house full of spears, bows, arrows, macanas and other weapons those indians used in their wars.",
          "ref": "1997, Manuel Alvar Ezquerra, Vocabulario de indigenismos en las Crónias de Indias, CSIC, page 231",
          "text": "Una casa grande llena de lanzas, arcos, flechas, macanas y otras armas que usaban en sus guerras aquellos indios.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "a type of long club, sometimes studded with sharp pieces of rock, used by the natives of America"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "club",
          "club"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Latin American Spanish",
        "Spanish terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "The grenadiers came with shields and batons.",
          "ref": "1970, Carlos Monsiváis, Días de guardar, Ediciones Era, page 265",
          "text": "Se dejaron venir los granaderos con escudos y macanas.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "baton, nightstick"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "baton",
          "baton"
        ],
        [
          "nightstick",
          "nightstick"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "Americas",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Americas, Latin America) baton, nightstick"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Latin-America",
        "feminine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Spanish terms with quotations",
        "Spanish uncountable nouns"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "The anthropomorphic wooden figures represented the tutelar spirits of children or adults and those made of balsa or peach palm were used in healings, one for each ailment.",
          "ref": "2003, Hernando Forero Caballero, Fundamentos sociológicos de la medicina primitiva, Academia Nacional de Medicina, page 53",
          "text": "Las figuras antropomorfas de madera representaban los espíritus tutelares de los niños o de los adultos y las de balso o macana eran empleadas para curaciones, una para cada enfermedad.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "the wood of the peach palm"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "peach palm",
          "peach palm"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(uncountable) the wood of the peach palm"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Argentinian Spanish",
        "Peruvian Spanish",
        "Spanish terms with quotations",
        "Uruguayan Spanish"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "It is bad situation, this affair reeks of revolution.",
          "roman": "Es una macana, este asunto me huele a revolución.",
          "text": "2005, Lucio A. Mansilla, Los mirmidones, Dunken, page 65",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "an unpleasant situation"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "unpleasant",
          "unpleasant"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Argentina, Peru, Uruguay) an unpleasant situation"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Argentina",
        "Peru",
        "Uruguay",
        "feminine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Argentinian Spanish",
        "Bolivian Spanish",
        "Paraguayan Spanish",
        "Peruvian Spanish",
        "Spanish colloquialisms",
        "Spanish terms with quotations",
        "Uruguayan Spanish"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "Cut the crap, dad!",
          "ref": "1904, Florencio Sánchez, La gringa",
          "text": "¡Déjese de macanas, viejo!",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "lie; nonsense, claptrap, tosh"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "lie",
          "lie"
        ],
        [
          "nonsense",
          "nonsense"
        ],
        [
          "claptrap",
          "claptrap"
        ],
        [
          "tosh",
          "tosh"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Argentina, Peru, Uruguay, Bolivia, Paraguay, colloquial) lie; nonsense, claptrap, tosh"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Argentina",
        "Bolivia",
        "Paraguay",
        "Peru",
        "Uruguay",
        "colloquial",
        "feminine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Costa Rican Spanish",
        "Honduran Spanish",
        "Nicaraguan Spanish",
        "Spanish terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "The sowing is done using a plough pulled by oxen, using macanas or chuzos and by casting, this last one is used especially for sorghum.",
          "ref": "1979, Centro Agronomico Tropical de Investigacion y Enseñanza, Vocabulario de indigenismos en las Crónias de Indias, page 6",
          "text": "La siembra es realizada con arado de bueyes, con macana o chuzo y al voleo, en este último caso principalmente el sorgo.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "a farm tool used to dig small holes"
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Costa Rica, El Savador, Honduras, Nicaragua) a farm tool used to dig small holes"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Costa-Rica",
        "Honduras",
        "Nicaragua",
        "feminine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "a baluster of a balcony’s balustrade"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "baluster",
          "baluster"
        ],
        [
          "balcony",
          "balcony"
        ],
        [
          "balustrade",
          "balustrade"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Mexican Spanish"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "prick, cock"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "prick",
          "prick"
        ],
        [
          "cock",
          "cock"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Mexico) prick, cock"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Mexico",
        "feminine"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/maˈkana/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[maˈka.na]"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ana"
    }
  ],
  "word": "macana"
}

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  "categories": [
    "Rhymes:Spanish/ana",
    "Rhymes:Spanish/ana/3 syllables",
    "Spanish 3-syllable words",
    "Spanish countable nouns",
    "Spanish entries with incorrect language header",
    "Spanish feminine nouns",
    "Spanish lemmas",
    "Spanish nouns",
    "Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "Spanish terms with unknown etymologies",
    "es:Tools",
    "es:Weapons",
    "es:Woods"
  ],
  "etymology_number": 2,
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "es"
      },
      "expansion": "Uncertain",
      "name": "unc"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Uncertain.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "macanas",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "f"
      },
      "expansion": "macana f (plural macanas)",
      "name": "es-noun"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "ma‧ca‧na"
  ],
  "lang": "Spanish",
  "lang_code": "es",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "a type of thin cotton shawl worn by mestizo women in Bolivia and Ecuador"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "shawl",
          "shawl"
        ],
        [
          "mestizo",
          "mestizo"
        ],
        [
          "Bolivia",
          "Bolivia"
        ],
        [
          "Ecuador",
          "Ecuador"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/maˈkana/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[maˈka.na]"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ana"
    }
  ],
  "word": "macana"
}

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  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "tnq",
        "2": "noun"
      },
      "expansion": "macana",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Taíno",
  "lang_code": "tnq",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Taíno entries with incorrect language header",
        "Taíno lemmas",
        "Taíno nouns"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "wooden club"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "wooden",
          "wooden"
        ],
        [
          "club",
          "club"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "macana"
}

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