nana

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *nanaq, from Proto-Austronesian *naNaq.


nana

Clipping of estrella nana (“dwarf star”)


nana

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *nanaq. Compare Malay nanah.


nana

You look a right nana dressed up like that.


nana

eo-head

nana (accusative singular nanan, plural nanaj, accusative plural nanajn)

nanan (accusative singular)
nanaj (plural)
nanajn (accusative plural)

From nano (“dwarf”, noun) + -a (adjective ending), ultimately from Latin nānus.


nana

pus (fluid found in regions of infection)

From Proto-Central-Pacific *nana, from Proto-Oceanic *nanaq, from Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *nanaq, from Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *nanaq, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *nanaq, from Proto-Austronesian *naNaq.


nana

Je suis le type qui vous vend de la merde. Qui vous fait rêver de ces choses que vous n’aurez jamais. Ciel toujours bleu, nanas jamais moches, un bonheur parfait, retouché sur Photoshop.

2000, Frédéric Beigbeder, 99 francs, Gallimard, →ISBN, page 19:

I'm the guy who sells you shit. Who makes you dream of those things you'll never have. A sky that's always blue; chicks who are never ugly; a perfect, Photoshopped happiness.

(slang) chick, bird (especially when attractive)

Diminutive form of Anne, Anna, popularised after Zola's 1880 novel Nana.


nana

Probably with ultimate origin in baby talk.


nana

From Proto-Philippine [Term?], from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *nanaq, from Proto-Austronesian *naNaq.


nana

la-noun

nāna f (genitive nānae); first declension

nāna (canonical feminine)
nānae (genitive)
nāna (nominative singular)
nānae (nominative plural)
nānae (genitive singular)
nānārum (genitive plural)
nānae (dative singular)
nānīs (dative plural)
nānam (accusative singular)
nānās (accusative plural)
nānā (ablative singular)
nānīs (ablative plural)
nāna (singular vocative)
nānae (plural vocative)


nana

inflection of nan:
genitive/accusative singular


nana

ms-noun

nana (Jawi spelling نان, plural nana-nana, informal 1st possessive nanaku, 2nd possessive nanamu, 3rd possessive nananya)

نان (Jawi)
nana-nana (plural)
nanaku (first-person informal possessive)
nanamu (possessive second-person)
nananya (possessive third-person)

bor

Tamil அண்ணா (aṇṇā)


nana

From Proto-Polynesian *naa-naa (“to look at something”). Doublet of nānā.


nana

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *nanaq, from Proto-Austronesian *naNaq.


nana

Cognates include Minica Huitoto nana and Nüpode Huitoto nana.


nana

Nana caɨ comuillamona dama caɨ abɨdo itɨcaɨ.

1988, Homenaje a la Declaracion Universal de Derechos Humanos: Huitoto Murui [Homage to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Murui Huitoto], page 8:

[We] all exist alone as to our growing with our bodies.


nana

third-person singular present indicative

inflection of nanar:
second-person singular imperative


nana

Old Japanese: 七 (nana)

Japanese: 七 (nana)

desctree

Proto-Ryukyuan: *nana
Northern Ryukyuan:
Kikai: 七 (nana)
Kunigami: 七 (nana)
Northern Amami Ōshima: 七 (nana)
Okinawan: 七 (nana)
Okinoerabu: 七 (nana)
Southern Amami Ōshima: 七 (nana)
Tokunoshima: 七 (nana)
Yoron: 七 (nana)
Southern Ryukyuan:
Miyako: 七 (nana)
Yaeyama: 七 (nana)
Yonaguni: 七 (nana)

Possibly cognate with Goguryeo 難隱 (*nanən).


nana

Northern Ryukyuan:

Kikai: 七 (nana)

Kunigami: 七 (nana)

Northern Amami Ōshima: 七 (nana)

Okinawan: 七 (nana)

Okinoerabu: 七 (nana)

Southern Amami Ōshima: 七 (nana)

Tokunoshima: 七 (nana)

Yoron: 七 (nana)

Southern Ryukyuan:

Miyako: 七 (nana)

Yaeyama: 七 (nana)

Yonaguni: 七 (nana)


nana

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nana (nominative singular)
naně (dual nominative)
nany (nominative plural)
nany (genitive singular)
nanu (dual genitive)
nanъ (genitive plural)
naně (dative singular)
nanama (dative dual)
nanamъ (dative plural)
nanǫ (accusative singular)
naně (accusative dual)
nany (accusative plural)
nanojǫ (instrumental singular)
nanǫ (instrumental singular)
nanama (dual instrumental)
nanami (instrumental plural)
naně (locative singular)
nanu (dual locative)
nanasъ (locative plural)
nanaxъ (locative plural)
nano (singular vocative)
naně (dual vocative)
nany (plural vocative)

South Slavic:

Bulgarian: на́на (nána)

Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic script: на́на

Latin script: nána

West Slavic:

Old Czech: *nána

Czech: nána (dialectal)

Polish: nana (dialectal)

⇒ Slovak: nano

Pomeranian:

Slovincian: nana

East Slavic:

Belarusian: ня́ня (njánja)

Middle Russian: нꙗ́нꙗ (njánja)

Russian: ня́ня (njánja)

Ukrainian: ня́ня (njánja)

West Slavic:

⇒ Czech: ňano

Polish: niania (dialectal)

Slovak: ňaňa


nana

nána (canonical feminine)
на́на (Cyrillic)


nana

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish نعنع (nane), from Arabic نَعْنَع (naʕnaʕ), نَعْنَاع (naʕnāʕ).


nana

(Argentina, Chile, Paraguay, childish) small wound, scratch or painful bump

(Argentina, Uruguay, mostly in the plural) pains and aches of old age


nana

[ˈn̪aː.n̪ɐʔ]

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *nanaq, from Proto-Austronesian *naNaq. Compare Malay nanah.


nana

(obsolete) name of the Baybayin letter ᜈ, corresponding to "na"