baina
Basque
Etymology
Possibly related to baino (“than”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (Navarro-Lapurdian) /bai̯na/ [bai̯.na]
- IPA(key): (Southern) /baɲa/ [ba.ɲa]
Audio: (file) - Rhymes: -ai̯na, -a
- Rhymes: -aɲa, -a
- Hyphenation: bai‧na
Conjunction
baina
- but
- Nik joan nahi badut, baina nire amak ez dit uzten.
- I do want to go, but my mum won’t let me.
Further reading
- “baina”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy] (in Basque), Euskaltzaindia [Royal Academy of the Basque Language]
- “baina”, in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], Euskaltzaindia, 1987–2005
Swahili
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic بَيْنَ (bayna).[1]
Pronunciation
Audio (Kenya): (file)
Adverb
baina
Synonyms
References
- ^ Baldi, Sergio (30 November 2020) Dictionary of Arabic Loanwords in the Languages of Central and East Africa (Handbuch der Orientalistik; Erste Abteilung: Der Nahe und der Mittlere Osten; 145), Leiden • Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 45 Nr. 355
Torau
Noun
baina
Further reading
- Malcolm Ross, Proto Oceanic and the Austronesian Languages of Western Melanesia, Pacific Linguistics, series C-98 (1988)
- ABVD
Zia
Adjective
baina