nini

• IPA^(key): /naɪˈnaɪ/

nini

1. (childish) Alternative form of night night.

Cognate with Malay nenek.

• IPA^(key): /nini/
• Hyphenation: ni‧ni

nini

1. grandparent; grandfather or grandmother

cf. Ojibwe inini

nini

1. man

Jerry Randolph Valentine (2001) Nishnaabemwin Reference Grammar, University of Toronto, page 105

• IPA^(key): /ˈni.ni/

From Proto-Polynesian *niŋi (“to pour out”).

nini(transitive)

1. to pour
2. to spill
3. to apply ointment

• hanini

nini

1. balm, ointment

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

nini

1. fence, line of stones

• pānini (“prickly pear cactus”)

• nini in Combined Hawaiian Dictionary, at trussel2.com.

ni +‎ ni^[1]

• IPA^(key): [ˈnini]
• Hyphenation: ni‧ni
• Rhymes: -ni

nini

1. (colloquial) lo!, look!

   Nini, egy madár! ― Look! A bird!

• nini in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.

• IPA^(key): /ˈni.ni/
• Rhymes: -ini
• Hyphenation: nì‧ni

nini m

1. plural of nino

• inni

• ninni

From Proto-Celtic *snisni (compare Welsh nini).

• IPA^(key): /ˈn͈ʲin͈ʲi/

nini (emphatic)

1. we

   Synonyms: sinni, sisni, snisni

   • 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. 43^d5

     Is nini fo·rálaig.

     It is we that it had prostrated.

cf. Ojibwe inini

nini anim (plural ninwag, obviative ninwan)

1. man

Jerry Randolph Valentine (2001) Nishnaabemwin Reference Grammar, University of Toronto, page 105

Acronym of ni estudia ni trabaja (“neither studies nor works”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈnini/ [ˈni.ni]
• Rhymes: -ini
• Syllabification: ni‧ni

nini m or f by sense (plural ninis)

1. (informal) NEET, neet

• pasota

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nini

1. what (interrogative pronoun)

• kwa nini

• nani

nini

1. fish