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Borrowed from Japanese 仮名(かな) (kana, “phonetic character”, literally “borrowed character”, from the way that kana were originally Chinese characters "borrowed" for their phonetic values).

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɑːnə/, [ˈkʰɑːnə]

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɑːnə

kana (plural kana or kanas)

1. The hiragana and katakana syllabaries. These are made up of characters that represent individual syllables, which are used to write Japanese words and particles. Kana are derived from kanji.
2. A hiragana or katakana character.

kana (invariable)

1. (Singapore, Singlish) Alternative form of kena

• Akan, knaa, naka

From Proto-Cariban *kana (“fish”).

kana

1. fish

• IPA^(key): /kana/

kana (Bengali script কানা)

1. blind person

• van Breugel, Seino. 2015. Atong-English dictionary, second edition. Available online: https://www.academia.edu/487044/Atong_English_Dictionary.

kana

1. Romanization of ᬓᬦ
2. Romanization of ᬓᬦᬵ

• IPA^(key): /ˈkana/

kana

1. I

• Big Nambas Grammar Pacific Linguistics - G.J. Fox

From Middle Breton canaff, from Proto-Brythonic *kėnɨd (compare Welsh canu), from Proto-Celtic *kaneti (“to sing”) (compare Irish canadh), from Proto-Indo-European *keh₂n-.

kana

1. to sing

• na — short form, only used mid-sentence

Initial "ka-" is shared with other demonstratives kari (“this”), kani (“this”) and kadto (“that”). Related to dinha (“there”), nganha (“hither”), anaa (“there be”), and anha (“to go”), in a similar pattern with other Cebuano demonstrative pronouns. Compare Hiligaynon ina, Tagalog iyan.

IPA^(key): /kaˈnaʔ/ [kɐˈn̪aʔ]

• Hyphenation: ka‧na

kanâ

1. that (near the listener)

kana

1. (possessive subject marker) those

• ekkana

• IPA^(key): [ˈkana]

kana

1. masculine singular present transgressive of kanout

 

From Proto-Finnic *kana, from Proto-Germanic *hanô. Cognates include Finnish kana.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɑnɑ/, [ˈkɑnɑ]
• Hyphenation: ka‧na
• Rhymes: -ɑnɑ

kana (genitive kana, partitive kana)

1. chicken
2. (specifically) hen

• kukk

• “kana”, in [ÕS] Eesti õigekeelsussõnaraamat ÕS 2018 [Estonian Spelling Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2018, →ISBN

From Proto-Central-Pacific *kani, from Proto-Oceanic *kani, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kaən, from Proto-Austronesian *kaən.

kana

1. to eat (consume)

kana

1. meal

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɑnɑ/, [ˈkɑ̝nɑ̝]

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɑnɑ
• Hyphenation^(key): ka‧na

 

From Proto-Finnic *kana, borrowed from Proto-Germanic *hanô (“rooster, cock”),^[1] from Proto-Indo-European *keh₂n- (“to sing”). Cognates include Estonian kana, English hen.

kana

1. chicken (domestic fowl of species Gallus gallus, Gallus domesticus)

   Synonyms: kaakattaja, munija, (collective) siipikarja

   kanalintu ― gallinaceous bird

   1. chicken (meat from this bird eaten as food)

      Synonym: kananliha

2. hen (female chicken)
3. hen (female of other bird species, particularly a sexually mature female fowl)
4. (derogatory) An unintelligent, talkative woman.

   Synonym: kanamainen nainen

5. (archaic) woman, sweetheart

   Synonyms: (archaic) kulta, rakastajatar, vaimo, nainen

   • 1835, Elias Lönnrot, Kalevala:

     Sanoi Pohjolan emäntä, itse lausui, noin nimesi:/ Kummallenp’ on mielit mennä, kun tulevat tahtomahan/ ikuiseksi ystäväksi, kainaloiseksi kanaksi?

     Said the mistress of Pohjola, stated herself, thus worded:/ To which one do you want to go, when they come to woo you/ to be their eternal friend, a chicken under their arm?

The word kana usually refers to a mature bird. The Finnish translation for "chicken" in the sense "young hen" is kananpoika or broileri.

• kaakattaa
• kotkottaa
• kynä (“feather”)

• “kana”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-01

Borrowed from Japanese 仮名(かな) (kana).

kana

1. kana (Japanese syllabary)

Borrowed from Old Swedish kana.

kana (dialectal)

1. Synonym of kokka (“bow of a boat”)

• -kaan, akan

• Audio:

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kana m (plural kanas)

1. kana

• “kana”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Compare Tagalog kina.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkana/ [ˈkɐ.na]
• Rhymes: -ana
• Syllabification: ka‧na

kana (Hanunoo spelling ᜣᜨ)

1. used to mark oblique cases of personal nouns: to; toward; of; from; etc.

   kana Gawid ― to/for/of/from Gawid and his companions, family, etc.

• Used for multiple people. When referring to a single person, use kan.
• Even if only one person's name was mentioned, a group of people that includes person is implied.

• Conklin, Harold C. (1953) Hanunóo-English Vocabulary (University of California Publications in Linguistics), volume 9, London, England: University of California Press, →OCLC, page 139

 

From Proto-Finnic *kana. Cognates include Finnish kana and Estonian kana.

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑnɑ/, [ˈkɑnɑ]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑnɑ/, [ˈkɑnɑ]
• Rhymes: -ɑnɑ
• Hyphenation: ka‧na

kana

1. hen
   • 1936, N. A. Iljin and V. I. Junus, Bukvari iƶoroin șkouluja vart, Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 6:

     Kana, ka-ka-ka, na, mama, kana.

     A hen, cluck cluck cluck, here, mommy, a hen.

   • 1936, V. I. Junus, P. L. Maksimov, Inkeroisin keelen oppikirja alkuşkouluja vart (ensimäine osa), Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 4:

     Kana kaakatta. Sika röhkää.

     A hen cackles. A pig oinks.

   • 1937, D. I. Efimov, Lukukirja: Inkeroisia alkușkouluja vart (toin osa), Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 80:

     Kanan äänee jooksi pertist Darja-ämmä.

     Granny Darja ran out of the cottage towards the sound of the hen.

• kukko (“rooster”)

• (diminutive) kanain

• Fedor Tumansky (1790) “кана”, in Опытъ повѣствованїя о дѣянїях, положенїи, состоянїи и раздѣленїи Санкт-Петербургской губернїи [An experiment of an account of the acts, location, condition and division of the Saint Petersburg gubernia], Краткїй словарь ижерскаго, финскаго, эстонскаго, чюдскаго, и ямскаго нарѣчїя съ россїйскимъ переводомъ [A short dictionary of the Ingrian, Finnish, Estonian, Chud and Yamtian dialects with a Russian translation], page 681
• V. I. Junus (1936) Iƶoran Keelen Grammatikka‎^[3], Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 58
• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 130
• Olga I. Konkova, Nikita A. Dyachkov (2014) Inkeroin Keel: Пособие по Ижорскому Языку‎^[4], →ISBN, page 79

kana

1. Rōmaji transcription of かな

From Proto-Bantu *-nàì.

kana

1. four

• cana (Súlat Bacúlud, Ámung Sámson)

• IPA^(key): /kəˈna/ [kəˈnä]
• IPA^(key): /kəˈnaʔ/ [kəˈnäʔ]
• Hyphenation: ka‧na

kana or kanâ

1. put; to place

   Synonym: lage

2. to leave something somewhere

   Synonym: maglakuwan

From ka +‎ na.

• IPA^(key): /kəˈna/ [kəˈnä]
• Hyphenation: ka‧na

kana

1. expression to indicate an uncertainty or doubt; I wonder; maybe

   Makabalu kana?

   I wonder if you already know?

   Manisip kana?

   I wonder if you're thinking something?

From Proto-Finnic *kana. Cognates include Finnish kana and Estonian kana.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɑnɑ/
• Hyphenation: ka‧na

kana (genitive kanan, partitive kanua)

1. hen

• A. V. Punzhina (1994) “kana”, in Словарь карельского языка (тверские говоры) [Dictionary of the Karelian language (Tver dialects)], →ISBN
• P. M. Zaykov et al. (2015) “курица”, in Venäjä-Viena Šanakirja [Russian-Viena Karelian Dictionary], →ISBN

• IPA^(key): /kana/

kana

1. or, whether

• “kana” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 206. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

Borrowed from German Kanne, from Proto-Germanic *kannǭ.

• IPA^(key): [ˈkana]

kana f (diminutive kanka)

1. jug, pot (e.g. for coffee or tea)

• Muka, Arnošt (1921, 1928) “kana”, in Słownik dolnoserbskeje rěcy a jeje narěcow (in German), St. Petersburg, Prague: ОРЯС РАН, ČAVU; Reprinted Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag, 2008
• Starosta, Manfred (1999) “kana”, in Dolnoserbsko-nimski słownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch (in German), Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag

From Proto-Finnic *kana. Cognates include Finnish kana and Veps kana.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɑnɑ/
• Rhymes: -ɑnɑ
• Hyphenation: ka‧na

kana

1. chicken

• Juho Kujola (1944) Lyydiläismurteiden sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 105
• M. Pahomov (2022) “kana”, in Lüüdi-venän, venä-lüüdin sanakirdʹ‎^[5], Helsinki: Lüüdilaine Siebr, →ISBN, page 61

• IPA^(key): [ˈkana]

kana (Lontara spelling ᨀᨊ, semi-transitive akkana)

1. (transitive) to say

kana (Lontara spelling ᨀᨊ)

1. word

From Hindi खाना (khānā).

kana

1. food

• Baker, Philip & Hookoomsing, Vinesh Y. 1987. Dictionnaire de créole mauricien. Morisyen – English – Français

Inherited from Old Tupi kana, borrowed from Brazilian Portuguese cana, from Old Galician-Portuguese cana, from Latin canna, borrowed from Ancient Greek κᾰ́ννᾱ (kánnā), borrowed from Akkadian qanûm.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkana/, (Rio Negro) [ˈkã.nɐ]
• Rhymes: -ana
• Hyphenation: ka‧na

kana (plural kana-itá)

1. sugar cane (Saccharum officinarum)

   Synonyms: murí-seẽ, tabuka-seẽ

• Marcel Twardowsky Avila (2021) “kana”, in Proposta de dicionário nheengatu-português [Nheengatu–Portuguese dictionary proposal] (in Portuguese), São Paulo: USP, →DOI, page 367

Unknown

kana

1. there
2. then

Unknown, probably from Sanskrit कङ्कण (kaṅkaṇa, “bracelet”).

kana

1. bracelet

• → Balinese: ᬓᬦ (kana, “bracelet”)

Borrowed from Brazilian Portuguese cana, from Old Galician-Portuguese cana, from Latin canna, borrowed from Ancient Greek κᾰ́ννᾱ (kánnā), borrowed from Akkadian qanûm.

kana (?)

1. (LGA) sugar cane (Saccharum officinarum)

   Synonym: takûare'ẽ

• Nheengatu: kana

• Anton Meisterburg (a. 1756) “Cana de assucar”, in [Dicionário de Trier] (overall work in Portuguese and Old Tupi), Baixo Xingu, Pará, page 9r, column 1, line 94; republished as Jean-Claude Muller et al., editors, Dicionário de língua geral amazônica, Potsdam: University of Potsdam, 2019, →DOI, page 127: “cana [kana]”

From Portuguese caminhar and Spanish caminar and Kabuverdianu kaminha.

kana

1. to walk
2. to go

kana m (uncountable)

1. kana (Japanese syllabaries)

kana

1. salt

• Harrison, Roy, B. de Harrison, Margaret, López Juárez, Francisco, Ordoñes, Cosme (1984) Vocabulario zoque de Rayón (Serie de diccionarios y vocabularios indígenas Mariano Silva y Aceves; 28)‎^[6] (in Spanish), México, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, page 12

Inherited from Sanskrit कदा (kadā).

kana

1. when

Borrowing from Ottoman Turkish قنا (kına), from Arabic حِنَّاء (ḥinnāʔ).

• IPA^(key): /kâna/
• Hyphenation: ka‧na

kȁna f (Cyrillic spelling ка̏на)

1. henna (Lawsonia inermis) (shrub; dye)

Borrowed from Japanese 仮名 (kana).

• IPA^(key): /kǎna/
• Hyphenation: ka‧na

kàna f (Cyrillic spelling ка̀на)

1. kana

• Audio (Kenya):

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-kana (infinitive kukana)

1. to deny, to reject, to say no, to decline, to negate, to disown