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nona

See also: Nona, nóna, ñoña, nöna, nona-, and ǃnona

Ambonese Malay

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Etymology

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From Portuguese dona (“lady”).

Noun

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nona

  1. a young lady

References

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  • D. Takaria, C. Pieter (1998) Kamus Bahasa Melayu Ambon-Indonesia‎[1], Pusat Pembinaan dan Pengembangan Bahasa

Catalan

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Etymology

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From Latin nōna (“ninth [hour]”). The infantile meaning "sleep" might be derived from the sense of "siesta, afternoon nap" or might be purely onomatopoeic.

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Noun

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nona f (plural nones)

  1. (historical) nones
  2. (childish) sleep
    No tinc nona! ― I'm not sleepy!
  3. (historical, Valencia) tithe, tax
  4. (Valencia) Ononis aragonensis, a species of restharrow native to Iberia.
    Synonym: gavó aragonès

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Cimbrian

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Venetan nona, from Late Latin nonna (“nun”).

Noun

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nona f

  1. (Luserna) grandmother
    Synonym: èna

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Hawaiian

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Etymology

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(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈno.na/, [ˈno.nə]

Pronoun

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nona

  1. for him/her/it; his, hers, its; whose, for whom

Usage notes

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  • Applied to o-type possessions.
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Indonesian

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Etymology

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From Ambonese Malay nona or Malay nona (“young lady”), from Portuguese dona (“lady”) likely via Javanese.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈnona]
  • Hyphenation: no‧na

Noun

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nona

  1. miss (young unmarried woman)

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Italian

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Adjective

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nona

  1. feminine singular of nono

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Ladino

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Etymology

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From Late Latin nonna.

Noun

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nona f (Latin spelling)

  1. grandmother
    Synonyms: granmama, vava, avuela
    Coordinate term: (gender) nono

Latin

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Numeral

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nōna

  1. feminine of nōnus

Noun

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nōna f sg (genitive nōnae); first declension

  1. (Ecclesiastical Latin) nones (canonical hour)

Declension

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First-declension noun, singular only.

singular
nominative nōna
genitive nōnae
dative nōnae
accusative nōnam
ablative nōnā
vocative nōna

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  • “nona”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “nona”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • nona in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • nona in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • (ambiguous) on the day after, which was September 5th: postridie qui fuit dies Non. Sept. (Nonarum Septembrium) (Att. 4. 1. 5)

Malay

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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From Portuguese dona (“lady”) likely via Javanese. Doublet of nonya and nyonya.

Noun

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nona (Jawi spelling نونا, plural nona-nona, informal 1st possessive nonaku, 2nd possessive nonamu, 3rd possessive nonanya)

  1. miss, lady (young unmarried woman)
    Synonym: cik
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  • Ambonese Malay: nona
  • Indonesian: nona

Etymology 2

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From English annona (“custard apple”).

Noun

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nona (Jawi spelling نونا, plural nona-nona, informal 1st possessive nonaku, 2nd possessive nonamu, 3rd possessive nonanya)

  1. custard apple or sugar apple (Annona squamosa)
    Synonyms: buah nona, serikaya
  2. glue berry or bird lime tree (Cordia dichotoma)
    Synonyms: nona burung, petekat, pelekat, kendal, sekendal, sekendai
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References

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  • Wilkinson, Richard James (1901) “نونه nonah”, in A Malay-English dictionary, Hong Kong: Kelly & Walsh limited, page 674
  • Wilkinson, Richard James (1932) “nona”, in A Malay-English dictionary (romanised), volume II, Mytilene, Greece: Salavopoulos & Kinderlis, page 176
  • Dalgado, Sebastião Rodolfo (1936) Xavier, Anthony, transl., Portuguese Vocables in Asiatic Languages‎[3], Baroda: Oriental Institute, pages 136-8

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Phuthi

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Verb

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-nona

  1. to become fat

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Portuguese

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Pronunciation

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  • Rhymes: -onɐ
  • Hyphenation: no‧na

Etymology 1

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Learned borrowing from Latin nōna, feminine of nōnus (“ninth”).

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Adjective

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nona

  1. feminine singular of nono

Etymology 2

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Borrowed from Venetan nona (“grandmother”).

Noun

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nona f (plural nonas)

  1. (familiar, South Brazil, São Paulo) grandmother
    Synonyms: avó, vó

Etymology 3

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From Late Latin nonna (“nun”).

Noun

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nona f (plural nonas)

  1. (Christianity) nun
    Synonyms: freira, irmã

Serbo-Croatian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Venetan nona. Ultimately borrowed from Medieval Latin nonna.

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nona f (Cyrillic spelling нона)

  1. (Croatia, Chakavian) grandmother
  2. (Croatia, Chakavian) grandma, granny
  3. (Croatia, Chakavian) old woman

Spanish

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Adjective

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nona f

  1. feminine singular of nono

Swazi

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Verb

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-nona

  1. to be fat

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Venda

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Verb

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nona

  1. to be fat

Venetan

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Etymology

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From Late Latin nonna. Cognate with Italian nonna.

Noun

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nona f (plural none)

  1. grandmother

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Descendants

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