kina

From Tolai kina (“oyster or clamshell”).

kina (plural kinas or kina)

1. The national currency of Papua New Guinea, divided into 100 toea.

From Maori kina.

kina (plural kinas)

1. Evechinus chloroticus, a sea urchin endemic to New Zealand.
   • 1983, Keri Hulme, The Bone People, Preface:

     To those used to one standard, this book may offer a taste passing strange, like the original mouthful of kina roe. Persist. Kina can become a favourite food.

• akin, kain, naik, Kian, Akin, Kain, a-kin, Inka, a kin, Naik

• IPA^(key): /kʲìꜛná/

kina (Kana spelling キナ)

1. grass

• IPA^(key): [ˈkɪna]
• Rhymes: -ɪna
• Hyphenation: ki‧na
• Homophone: kyna

kina

1. inflection of kino:
   1. genitive singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative plural

• inka, Inka
• nika

cf. Ojibwe akina

kina

1. every

Jerry Randolph Valentine (2001) Nishnaabemwin Reference Grammar, University of Toronto, page 126

• IPA^(key): /ˈkina/
• Rhymes: -ina
• Hyphenation: kin‧a

kina (accusative singular kinan, plural kinaj, accusative plural kinajn)

1. cinematic

• IPA^(key): /ki.na/

kina

1. therein, herein
2. because of, for the sake of, thereby, hereby, herewith
3. therefore (at the end of a statement or sentence, preceded by o koya o qo)

• IPA^(key): /ˈkinɑ/, [ˈk̟inɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -inɑ
• Syllabification^(key): ki‧na
• Hyphenation^(key): ki‧na

Unknown. According to Jalo Kalima, possibly a Baltic loanword, compare Lithuanian ginčas.^[1]

kina

1. squabble, quarrel, spat [with elative ‘over, about’]

• “1. kina”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 10 August 2023

Unknown. Cognate with Karelian kino (both North and South Karelian).

kina

1. (dialectal) slime, drool (Eastern Finnish, Central and North Ostrobothnia, Lapland)
2. synonym of lapsenkina

• “2. kina”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[3] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 10 August 2023

From Tolai kina.

kina

1. kina (currency)

• Akin, Inka, Kain, inka, kani

From Proto-Inuit *kina, from Proto-Eskimo *ki-na.

• (Nuuk) IPA^(key): /kina/, [kɪ.na]

kina

1. who

This word will cause indicative intonation in the sentence it is used, but not if used in isolation.^[1]

• IPA^(key): [ˈkina]
• Rhymes: -na, -a
• Hyphenation: ki‧na

From Quechua kina.

kina (plural kina-kina)

1. (botany, pharmacy) cinchona bark

From English kina, from Tolai kina (“oyster or clamshell”).

kina (plural kina-kina)

1. kina: the national currency of Papua New Guinea, divided into 100 toea

• “kina” 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.

kina (syllabics ᑭᓇ)

1. (interrogative) who (in a question)

kina

1. mammal

Inherited from Proto-Bantu *-bína.

kina

1. to dance

Inherited from Proto-Bantu *-bína.

kina

1. to dance

From Proto-Polynesian *kina (“sea urchin”). Cognate with Hawaiian ʻina (“small sea urchin”).

kina

1. sea urchin

• ateate

• “kina” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.

cf. Ojibwe akina

kina

1. every

Jerry Randolph Valentine (2001) Nishnaabemwin Reference Grammar, University of Toronto, page 126

kina

1. mother (female (human) who parents a child, gives birth to a baby, or is pregnant)

• ina

kina

1. Cinchona bark

• English: quinine
• Spanish: quina

From Proto-Cushitic. Cognates include Hadiyya kine.

kina

1. stone

• Manuale di Sidamo by M. M. Moreno (Mondadori Milano 1940)

• kita
• kida
• -kid- , -kil-, -kit- (combining forms)

From Proto-Munda *kᵊla (“tiger”), from Proto-Austroasiatic *kla(ː)ʔ.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkinaː/

kina

1. tiger

• Ramamurti, R. S. (1933). Sora–English Dictionary. Delhi: Mittal Publication.

• Audio (Kenya):

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kina class VII (plural vina class VIII)

1. depth (vertical distance below a surface)
2. rhyme

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

kina

1. ki-vi class subject inflected singular present affirmative of -wa na

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /kiˈna/ [kɪˈn̪a]
• Rhymes: -a
• Syllabification: ki‧na

kiná (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜒᜈ)

1. Used to mark oblique cases of personal nouns

   Ang awiting ito ay para kina papa at mama.

   This song is for (my) father and (my) mother.

• This is used where there is more than one addressee, as a simpler way of saying kay [1st referrent] … at kay [last referrent] (e.g. kina Pedro at Juan).
• Where it precedes one name, this refers to the person and others surrounding them (e.g. Kina Pedro refers to Pedro and anyone other around him, usually unspecified).

• kana, kila, kinda, kanila

Borrowed from Spanish quina.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈkina/ [ˈkiː.n̪ɐ]
• Rhymes: -ina
• Syllabification: ki‧na

kina (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜒᜈ)

1. cinchona

   Synonym: singkona

• kino

• kain, akin, naik

kina

1. kina
2. a kind of seashell