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nini

See also: Nini, and ni-ni

English

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Interjection

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nini

  1. (usually even more childish) Alternative form of night night

Brunei Malay

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Etymology

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Cognate with Malay nenek.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /nini/
  • Hyphenation: ni‧ni

Noun

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nini

  1. grandparent; grandfather or grandmother

Eastern Ojibwa

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Etymology

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cf. Ojibwe inini

Noun

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nini

  1. man

References

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Jerry Randolph Valentine (2001) Nishnaabemwin Reference Grammar, University of Toronto, page 105

Hawaiian

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Pronunciation

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Verb

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nini

  1. to pour

Derived terms

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Hungarian

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Etymology

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ni +‎ ni[1]

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈnini]
  • Hyphenation: ni‧ni
  • Rhymes: -ni

Interjection

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nini

  1. (colloquial) lo!, look!
    Nini, egy madár! ― Look! A bird!

References

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  1. ^ nini in Zaicz, Gábor (ed.). Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (‘Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN.  (See also its 2nd edition.)

Further reading

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  • nini in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

Italian

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈni.ni/
  • Rhymes: -ini
  • Hyphenation: nì‧ni

Noun

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nini m

  1. plural of nino

Anagrams

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Old Irish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Proto-Celtic *snisni (compare Welsh nini).

Pronunciation

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Pronoun

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nini (emphatic)

  1. we
    Synonyms: sinni, sisni, snisni
    • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 43d5
      Is nini fo·rálaig.
      It is we that it had prostrated.

Ottawa

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Etymology

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cf. Ojibwe inini

Noun

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nini anim (plural ninwag, obviative ninwan)

  1. man

References

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Jerry Randolph Valentine (2001) Nishnaabemwin Reference Grammar, University of Toronto, page 105

Spanish

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Spanish Wikipedia has an article on:
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Etymology

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Acronym of ni estudia ni trabaja (“neither studies nor works”).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈnini/ [ˈni.ni]
  • Rhymes: -ini
  • Syllabification: ni‧ni

Noun

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nini m or f by sense (plural ninis)

  1. (informal) NEET, neet

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Swahili

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Pronunciation

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  • Audio (Kenya):(file)

Pronoun

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nini

  1. what (interrogative pronoun)

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Tunica

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Noun

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nini

  1. fish
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