kena

kena (plural kenas)

1. Alternative form of quena (“traditional flute of the Andes”).

Borrowed from Malay kena (“to be struck, hit, affected by”).

• (Singapore) IPA^(key): /ˈkənɑ/, /ˈkɑnɑ/, [ˈk˭ə˧.nä˦]
• (Malaysia) IPA^(key): /ˈkənə/, /ˈkənɑ/

kena (invariable)

(Manglish, Singlish)

1. (ambitransitive) To experience, receive, suffer, get or be affected by (something negative).

   Synonyms: (transitive) got, (intransitive) get it

   They all kena food poisoning.

   If they ever catch you jaywalking, you will kena.

2. (auxiliary) Used before a verb to indicate the adversative passive voice.

   Synonym: got

   He kena fine $10.

   My job application kena rejected.

• kena sai

• tio (Singlish, not exclusively negative in connotation)

• Kane, Kean, aken, enka, kaen, nake

kena (genitive kena, partitive kena, comparative kenam, superlative kõige kenam)

1. nice, kind
2. pretty

• → Ingrian: kena

Perhaps vaguely related to Bengali ঘেন্না (ghenna).

kena

1. to be afraid, to fear

Inherited from Malay kena, from Classical Malay کنا (kena), from Old Malay [script needed] (knā), from Proto-Malayic *kəna, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kəna, from Proto-Austronesian *kəNa (“be ensnared, caught in a trap; suffer, undergo, be struck by something; be entrapped or deceived; hit the mark, be ‘on target’, correct, right, true”).

• Semantic loan from Javanese ꦏꦼꦤ (kena, “able; can, allowed; succeed”, literally “hit, struck”) for sense related to agreement, approval; pleasure.

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /kəˈna/ [kəˈna]
• Rhymes: -a
• Syllabification: ke‧na

kena

1. (transitive, intransitive when with a preposition) to touch, hit [with di ‘on’; or with ke ‘to’]

   Synonyms: kenai, sentuh

   Cairan asamnya kena jas.

   The acid liquid hit the jacket.

2. (transitive, intransitive when with a preposition) to strike [with di ‘on’; or with ke ‘to’]

   Tembakan tadi sangat kena sasaran!

   That shot was very on target!

3. (intransitive) to be exact, to be accurate, to be precise

   Synonyms: cocok, patut, tepat

4. (transitive, sometimes auxiliary) to be affected

   Synonym: terkena

   Anakku kena sengat tawon.

   My child was stung by a wasp.

kena

1. (in some compounds) -able

   kena pajak ― taxable

• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*keNa”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

• “kena” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Borrowed from Estonian kena (“pretty”).

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈkenɑ/, [ˈke̞nɑ]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈkenɑ/, [ˈke̞nɑ]
• Rhymes: -enɑ
• Hyphenation: ke‧na

kena

1. beautiful, pretty
2. skilled, skillful

• (beautiful): See Thesaurus:käppiä

• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 153

kena

1. romanization of ꦏꦼꦤ

• IPA^(key): /kɛna/

kena (infinitive gũkena)

1. to be glad^[1][2]

(Nouns)

• gĩkeno class 7

• nake

• kene (dialectal, informal)

From Classical Malay کنا (kena), from Old Malay [script needed] (knā), from Proto-Malayic *kəna, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kəna, from Proto-Austronesian *kəNa (“be ensnared, caught in a trap; suffer, undergo, be struck by something; be entrapped or deceived; hit the mark, be ‘on target’, correct, right, true”)

• IPA^(key): /kəˈna/ [kəˈna]
  • Rhymes: -a
• (Johor-Riau) IPA^(key): /ˈkənə/ [ˈkə.nə]
  • Rhymes: -ə

kena (Jawi spelling کنا)

1. to incur, to bring upon oneself, to be touched adversely
2. to contact, to experience, to exactly touch or hit off
3. to touch, to strike, to hit, to affect
4. to have to do, to need to do, to need

   Synonyms: perlu, harus

5. to be exact, to be accurate, to be precise

   Synonyms: cocok, patut, tepat

• → English: kena
• Indonesian: kena

• “kena” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.
• Austronesian Comparative Dictionary -*keNa

Borrowed from English Gehenna, from ecclesiastical Latin gehenna, from Ancient Greek γέεννα (géenna), from Hebrew גֵּיהִנּוֹם (ge'henom, “hell”, literally “valley of Hinnom”).

• (phonetic) IPA^(key): [kɛːnʲɑ], (enunciated) [kɛ nʲɑ]
• (phonemic) IPA^(key): /kɛjnʲæɰ/
• Bender phonemes: {keynah}

kena

1. Gehenna; hell

• Marshallese–English Online Dictionary

kena

1. masculine/neuter instrumental singular of ka

-kena (infinitive gukena, perfective -kennye)

1. to be poor, be destitute

   Antonyms: -kira, -tunga

• umukene

From Proto-Bantu *-jíngɪda.

kena

1. to enter