nena

nena

1. inflection of nenë:
   1. definite nominative singular
   2. indefinite nominative/accusative plural

• nina

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈnɛ.nə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈne.na]

nena f (plural nenes)

1. female equivalent of nen: girl, female child

• “nena”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

nena

1. mother (term of reference)

• hena

From Old Galician-Portuguese neno, nena (“young, tender”), from Vulgar Latin *ninnus, probably imitative of infantile language. Cognate with Spanish niña.

• IPA^(key): /ˈne.na/

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nena f (plural nenas)

1. child (female), especially before puberty

   Synonyms: cativa, meniña, rapariga, rapaza

2. girl; young woman
   • 1403, M. M .Graña Cid (ed.), Las órdenes mendicantes en el obispado de Mondoñedo. El convento de san Martín de Villaoriente (1374-1500). Estudios Mindonienses, page 237:

     Item mando que den aa nena que mora en na casa duas trases et hun tornes et huna camisa et duas sauaas

     Item, I order that they give to the girl that lives at the house two trases [?] and a solidus from Tours and a shirt and two sheets

   Synonyms: meniña, moza

• neno

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “nena”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “neno”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “nena”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “nena”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “nena”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “neno”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

nena

1. Latin spelling of ნენა (nena)

From Proto-Finnic *nenä.

nena

1. nose

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish ننه (Turkish nene).

nena f (Cyrillic spelling нена)

1. grandmother
2. grandma
3. granny
4. old woman

• baka, baba, nona

Feminine form of nene (“kid, baby”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈnena/ [ˈne.na]
• Rhymes: -ena
• Syllabification: ne‧na

nena f (plural nenas)

1. female equivalent of nene: baby girl

   Coordinate term: niña

2. (colloquial) babe, dear (term of endearment to a woman or girl)
   • 1978, “¿Qué hace una chica como tú en un sitio como este?”, performed by Burning:

     Los años te delatan, nena, / estás fuera de sitio

     The years give you away, babe / you're out of place

• “nene”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

Inherited from Proto-Bantu [Term?].

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-nena (infinitive kunena)

1. to say

• Nominal derivations:
  • mnenaji (“speaker”)
  • neno (“word”)

From Proto-Finnic *nenä.

nena

1. nose (on face)
2. nose (of a shoe)

• nenasäl'gmed
• nenanjur'

• Zajceva, N. G., Mullonen, M. I. (2007) “нос, носок”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary]‎^[1], Petrozavodsk: Periodika