jena

See also: Jena, jenă, Jéňa, and jèná

Esperanto

Etymology

jen +‎ -a

Pronunciation

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Adjective

jena (accusative singular jenan, plural jenaj, accusative plural jenajn)

  1. following (which are about to follow (i.e., be presented) shortly)

Italian

Noun

jena f (plural jene)

  1. (obsolete) alternative spelling of iena

Juba Arabic

Etymology

From Sudanese Arabic جنى (jana).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɟena/, [ˈɟe.na]

Noun

jena (plural yal)

  1. child
  2. baby

References

  • Ian Smith, Morris Timothy Ama (1985) A Dictionary of Juba Arabic & English[1], 1st edition, Juba: The Committee of The Juba Cheshire Home and Centre for Handicapped Children, page 144

Latvian

Noun

jena f (4th declension)

  1. yen (monetary unit of Japan)
    piecas jenasfive yen
    papīra jenapaper yen (i.e., bills, banknotes)
    jenas kurssthe exchange rate of the yen
    grāmata maksā piecas jenasthe book costs five yen

Declension

Declension of jena (4th declension)
singular plural
nominative jena jenas
genitive jenas jenu
dative jenai jenām
accusative jenu jenas
instrumental jenu jenām
locative jenā jenās
vocative jena jenas

Lithuanian

Noun

jenà f (plural jènos) stress pattern 2

  1. yen (currency of Japan)

Declension

Declension of jenà
singular
(vienaskaita)
plural
(daugiskaita)
nominative (vardininkas) jenà jènos
genitive (kilmininkas) jènos jènų
dative (naudininkas) jènai jènoms
accusative (galininkas) jèną jenàs
instrumental (įnagininkas) jenà jènomis
locative (vietininkas) jènoje jènose
vocative (šauksmininkas) jèna jènos

Maltese

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian iena, from Latin hyaena, from Ancient Greek ὕαινα (húaina).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈjɛː.na/

Noun

jena f (plural jeni)

  1. hyena

Derived terms

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French gêner.

Verb

a jena (third-person singular present jenează, past participle jenat) 1st conjugation

  1. to embarrass
  2. to discomfort, incommode
    Synonym: incomoda
  3. to inconvenience
  4. to hinder, impede, be in the way of
    Synonyms: împiedica, stânjeni, stingheri
  5. to disturb, trouble
    Synonym: deranja

Conjugation

See also

Slavomolisano

Etymology

From Serbo-Croatian jedan.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /jěnâː/

Noun

jena f

  1. one

Upper Sorbian

Upper Sorbian cardinal numbers
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    Cardinal : jena
    Ordinal : prěni

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈjɛna/

Numeral

jena f (m jedyn, n jene)

  1. one

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies
ALIV jena
Brazilian standard fena
New Tribes jena

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [hʷena]

Noun

jena (possessed jenai)

  1. oar or paddle for rowing

References

  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “jena”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana[2], Lyon
  • Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, pages 290, 390:hena -he:na -i 'oar' [] he:na - canoe paddle
  • Hall, Katherine (2007) “hēna”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series[3], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021