reyna

Borrowed from Spanish reina.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɾejna/ [ˈɾeɪ̯.n̪a]
• Hyphenation: rey‧na

réyna (Basahan spelling ᜍᜒᜌ᜔ᜈ)

1. queen

   Coordinate term: hadi

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈrej.nə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈrej.na]

reyna f (plural reynes)

1. Obsolete spelling of reina (“queen”).
   • 1906, Emili Vilanova i March, Gent de casa, page 36:

     — Bésam lo peu; — li contesta la seva dòna alsantse y anantsen al seu quarto ab tota la magestat d'una reyna agraviada.

     "Kiss my foot," his wife replies, rising and going to her room with all the majesty of an insulted queen.

From Old Norse reyna.

• IPA^(key): /ˈreiːna/

  Rhymes: -eiːna

reyna (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative reyndi, supine reynt)

1. to try, attempt
2. to experience

• (to try): leitast við

From Proto-Norse *ᚱᚨᚢᚾᛁᛃᚨᚾ (*raunijan), from Proto-Germanic *raunijaną. Compare reynir (“tester”) (inherited from Proto-Norse ᚱᚨᚢᚾᛁᛃᚨᛉ (raunijaʀ, “Tester”, name of a spear)).

reyna (singular past indicative reyndi, plural past indicative reyndu, past participle reyndr)

1. to try (out), prove
2. to experience

• raun f (“test, trial; experience”)
• reynd f (“experience”)
• reynsla f (“experience”)
• reynir m (“tester; friend”)

• Icelandic: reyna
• Faroese: royna
• Norwegian Nynorsk: røyna, røyne
  • → Norwegian Bokmål: røyne
• Old Swedish: røna
  • Swedish: röna, utröna
• Old Danish: røne, rønne
  • Danish: rønne

• “reyna”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

• eyrna

From Latin rēgīna, from rēx (“king”).

• IPA^(key): /reˈina/

reyna f (plural reynas)

1. queen
   • c. 1200, Almerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 82v:

     Alli delãt gazar baptizo ſãt felip al rẏc õe q̃ era de cãdace la reẏna. ⁊ el era de ethiopia e veno a iħrꝉm al tenple orar. […]

     There, before Gaza, Saint Philip baptized the rich man who was of Candace, the queen. He was from Ethiopia and had come to Jerusalem to pray at the temple. […]

   • c. 1250, Alfonso X, Lapidario, f. 1v:

     […] quiſo dios que uinieſſe a manos del noble Rey don alfonſo fijo del muy noble Rey don ferrando ⁊ dela reyna donna beatriz […]

     […] God wanted it to come to the hands of the noble king don Alfonso, son of the very noble king don Ferdinand and the queen, lady Beatrice […]

• rey (“king”)

• Spanish: reina (see there for further descendants)

Borrowed from Spanish reina (“queen”), from Old Spanish reyna, from Latin rēgīna. Compare Cebuano rayna and Maranao raina.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈɾejna/ [ˈɾeɪ̯.n̪ɐ]
• Rhymes: -ejna
• Syllabification: rey‧na
• Homophone: Reyna

reyna (Baybayin spelling ᜇᜒᜌ᜔ᜈ)

1. queen; queen consort (wife of a king)

   Synonym: (neologism) hariginang

2. queen; female monarch

   Synonyms: haribini, (obsolete) haring babae

3. (by extension) important woman in an event (such as in a festival, party, etc.)
4. (card games) queen
5. (chess) queen
6. (biology) queen (reproductive female insect in a hive)
7. (colloquial) effeminate man

• (queen consort; female monarch): hari
• (chesspiece):

Chess pieces in Tagalog · mga piyesa sa ahedres (layout · text)
hari	reyna	tore	obispo/alpil	kabayo	peon

• (playing card):

Playing cards in Tagalog · baraha (layout · text)
alas	dos	tres	kuwatro	singko	seis	siyete
otso	nuwebe	diyes	kabayo, sota	reyna	hari	diyoker, payaso

• “reyna”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018