ná

ná

1. alternative form of nada

For pronunciation and definitions of ná – see 哪 (“which; what; any; etc.”). (This term is the pe̍h-ōe-jī form of 哪).

From Old Norse ná.

• IPA^(key): /nauː/
• Rhymes: -auː

ná

1. to reach (a place) [with dative]
2. to get, catch, apprehend (a physical object) [with dative]
3. to reach, attain (a goal) [with dative]

   Ég mun ná heimsyfirráðum!

   I will attain world domination!

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

• ná í
• ná sér
• ná sér í

• án

• (Munster, Connacht) IPA^(key): /n̪ˠɑː/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /n̪ˠa(ː)/

From Old Irish ná (“don't”, prohibitive particle).

ná

1. don’t (particle used to introduce a negative imperative; triggers h-prothesis of a following vowel)

   Ná déan sin.

   Don’t do that.

   Ná habair é.

   Don’t mention it.

2. may...not (particle used with raibh, the present subjunctive of bí, to introduce a negative wish)

   Dealbh ná raibh tú.

   May you never be destitute.

3. (Munster) alternative form of nach (“not”) (in questions; triggers h-prothesis; used with the dependent form of an irregular verb if there is one)

   Ná fuil ocras ort?

   Are you not hungry?

   Chonac í, ná facas?

   I saw her, didn’t I?

ná (triggers h-prothesis, used with the dependent form of an irregular verb if there is one)

1. (Munster) alternative form of nach (“that...not”)

   Dúirt sé ná raibh carr aige.

   He said that he didn’t have a car.

From Old Irish ná (“nor”)

ná

1. nor

   Níl deartháir ná deirfiúr agam.

   I have neither brother nor sister.

2. used between two identical or similar words to intensify a negative

   Ní fhaca sí solas ná solas.

   She saw no light whatsoever.

   (literally, “She didn’t see light or light).”)

From Old Irish indás (“than (it) is”).

• ioná (archaic)
• 'ná (superseded)

ná (triggers h-prothesis)

1. than

   Is airde Máire ná Peadar.

   Mary is taller than Peter.

2. but (used rhetorically in direct and indirect questions)

   Cé a bhí ina shuí ann ná m’athair féin?

   Who was sitting there but my own father?

3. used to connect a predicate noun to its subject in a cleft sentence introduced by a copular form

   Is é a dúirt sé ná gur dhíol sé a ríomhaire lena chara.

   What he said was that he sold his computer to his friend.

   • 1907, Peadar Ua Laoghaire, Séadna, page 6:

     Bhí fear ann fad ó agus isé ainim a bhí air ’ná Séadna.

     Once upon a time there was a man and the name that he had was Séadna.

• ná go, ná gur (“but that”)

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “ná”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “ná”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 87
• “ná”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2025

• na — nonstandard

• Audio:

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ná (na², Zhuyin ㄋㄚˊ)

1. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 嗱
2. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 拏 / 拿
3. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 拿
4. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 挏
5. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 訣 / 诀
6. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 誽 / 𰵵
7. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 鎿 / 镎
8. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 镎

• IPA^(key): /nɑ́/

ná

1. for you, for your sake
2. in your favor

   ná yáʼátʼééh ― it is good for you

   ná áshłééh ― I’m making it for you

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /ˈnaː/

ná

1. so, thus, in this way

• Koponen, Eino, Ruppel, Klaas, Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008), Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages‎^[1], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

• IPA^(key): /n͈aː/

Uncertain. According to Matasović originally short /na/, from Proto-Celtic *ne, from Proto-Indo-European *né (“not”).^[1] According to Dunkel from Proto-Celtic *nā, from Proto-Indo-European *nó-h₁, from *né + adverbial suffix *-h₁. In Old Irish the expected outcome would be *nú in a final syllable. The variant with á would adopted from originally disyllabic forms like nád (relative) and nách (before infixed pronoun).^[2]

ná (triggers /h/-prothesis)

1. don’t, let…not (particle used to introduce a negative imperative)
   • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 22^b26

     Ná bíth i cobadlus doïb, ar atá torad la gnímu soilse .i. praemia aeterna ní ḟil immurgu acht infructuosa.

     Do not be in fellowship with them, for there is fruit with works of light, i.e. praemia aeterna. There is nothing [with works of darkness], however, save infructuosa.

   • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 25^c6

     Hóre ammi maicc laí et soilse, ná seichem nahísiu.

     Since we are children of day and light, let us not follow these things.

   • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 55^a1

     Ná déne ainmnit.

     Do not show patience.

     (literally, “Do not do patience.”)

• na
• nách, nach (before an infixed pronoun)

• Middle Irish: ná
  • Irish: ná

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 ná, na”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940) [1909] D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, translation of Handbuch des Alt-Irischen (in German), →ISBN, §§ 862, 868, pages 539, 542; reprinted 2017

Maybe from Proto-Celtic *nāwe (“or not”), from Proto-Indo-European *nó-h₁ (“not”) + *-we (“or”). Compare nó (“or”).

ná (triggers /h/-prothesis)

1. (chiefly in the negative) or, nor

• c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 49^d3

  .i. ní frithalim-se rucai ná mmebuil dam hisa suithin, ma fris·accar hi t’ainm-siu, a Dǽ

  i.e. I expect neither shame nor disgrace to me for ever, if I hope in Your name, O God.

• na

• Middle Irish: ná
  • Irish: ná

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “4 ná”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940) [1909] D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, translation of Handbuch des Alt-Irischen (in German), →ISBN, § 865, page 540; reprinted 2017

From Proto-Germanic *nēhwāną, related to (or derived from) Proto-Germanic *nēhwaz (“near”). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂neḱ- (“to reach”).

ná (singular past indicative náði, plural past indicative náðu, past participle nát)

1. to get hold of, reach, overtake [with dative]
2. to get, obtain
3. (with infinitive) to be able to, to be allowed to

• gnógr
• nær

• Icelandic: ná
• Norwegian:
  • Norwegian Bokmål: nå
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: nå
• Swedish: nå
• Danish: nå

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “ná”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 309; also available at the Internet Archive

ná

1. eye dialect spelling of não

ná

1. polar interrogative particle

   Móe ing a mè mangmang me pi ná?

   Do you want to eat fish?

• Donohue, Mark. A Grammar of the Skou Language of New Guinea (2004).

• IPA^(key): /ˈna/ [ˈna]
• Rhymes: -a
• Syllabification: ná

ná

1. (informal) apocopic form of nada

   no pasa ná ― nothing happens

• (Thạch An – Tràng Định) IPA^(key): [naː˧˥]
• (Trùng Khánh) IPA^(key): [naː˦]

ná

1. not (negates meaning of verb)

   ná chin ― not eat

   ná chắc ― not know

   slon lụ ná ― study or not

ná

1. brassy; obstinate

   ná dú rườn hâu ― to stay at their house

ná

1. to be blocked

   Slủng ná đạn.

   The gun was clogged.

• Hoàng Văn Ma, Lục Văn Pảo, Hoàng Chí (2006) Từ điển Tày-Nùng-Việt [Tay-Nung-Vietnamese dictionary] (in Vietnamese), Hanoi: Nhà xuất bản Từ điển Bách khoa Hà Nội
• Lương Bèn (2011) Từ điển Tày-Việt [Tay-Vietnamese dictionary]‎^[2][3] (in Vietnamese), Thái Nguyên: Nhà Xuất bản Đại học Thái Nguyên
• Dương Nhật Thanh, Hoàng Tuấn Nam (2003) Hoàng Triều Ân, editor, Từ điển chữ Nôm Tày [A Dictionary of (chữ) Nôm Tày]‎^[4] (in Tày and Vietnamese), Hanoi: Nhà xuất bản Khoa học xã hội [Social Sciences Publishing House]

From Proto-Vietic *s-naːʔ (“crossbow”), from Proto-Mon-Khmer *snaʔ (“crossbow”). Cognate with Thavung ซะน่า, Khmer ស្នា (snaa), Koho söna. Doublet of nỏ.

Pain (2020) tentatively considered this to be a Chinese loan, from 弩 (OC *C.nˤaʔ) (B-S) (SV: nỗ), into Austroasiatic and Tai languages, likely through proto-Vietic.^[1]

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [naː˧˦]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [naː˨˩˦]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [naː˦˥]

(classifier cái, chiếc) ná • (弩, 𫸶, 梛, 󲈦, 那)

1. (dialectal) synonym of nỏ (“crossbow”)
2. slingshot

• án