amana

From Arabic أَمَانَة (ʔamāna).

• IPA^(key): /ʔà.máː.nàː/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [ʔà.máː.nàː]

àmānā̀ f (possessed form àmānàr̃)

1. trust, mutual respect
2. honesty, reliability
3. alliance

amana

1. almond

   Synonym: aramona

• IPA^(key): [ãˈmã.na]
• Rhymes: -ãna
• Hyphenation: a‧ma‧na

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *aman, from Proto-Tupian *aman.

Cognate with Guaraní ama.

amana (?)

1. rain (condensed water falling from a cloud)
   • 1622, anonymous author, “Escampar a chuua”, in Vocabulario na lingoa Braſilica, volume 1 (overall work in Old Tupi and Portuguese), Piratininga, page 122; republished as Carlos Drummond, editor, Vocabulário na Língua Brasílica, 2nd edition, São Paulo: USP, 1953:

     Opigc amana.

     [Opyk amana.]

     The rain ceased.

2. rainwater (water sourced from rain)^[1]
   • c. 1628, Luís Figueira, Arte da lingua Braſilica [Art of the Brasílica Language]‎^[1] (overall work in Portuguese), Lisbon: Manuel da Silva, page 48:

     Açape monhang amana

     [Asapemonhang amana]

     I make a path for the rainwater

• Nheengatu: amana

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

amana (possessable)

1. gerund of aman (“to encircle”)
   • c. 1585, Joseph of Anchieta, “[Na Aldeia de Guaraparim] [In the Village of Guaraparim]” (chapter LXIV), in [livrinho de variaſ poeziaſ] [Booklet of various poems], Guarapari, page 149v, column 2, lines 161–163; republished as Maria de Lourdes de Paula Martins, compiler, Poesias, São Paulo, 1956, page 283:

     Jndi cori tiaço, / Temimino repenhana / aunhenhe cetama amana

     [I ndi kori t'îasó, / Temiminõ repenhana / aûnhenhẽ setama amana]

     Let's go with him today, attack the Temiminó, immediatly encircling their land.

• Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “amana”, in Dicionário de tupi antigo: a língua indígena clássica do Brasil [Dictionary of Old Tupi: The Classical Indigenous Language of Brazil] (overall work in Portuguese), São Paulo: Global, →ISBN, page 29, column 1

Borrowed from Arabic أَمَانَة (ʔamāna).^[1]

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amana

1. deposit