tuna

• (General Australian, Received Pronunciation) enPR: tyo͞o'nə, IPA^(key): /ˈtjuː.nə/
• (yod-coalescence) IPA^(key): /ˈtʃuː.nə/
• (General American, Canada, yod-dropping) enPR: to͞o'nə, IPA^(key): /ˈtu.nə/

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• Rhymes: -uːnə

From American Spanish alteration of the Spanish atún, from Arabic اَلتُّنّ (at-tunn, “tuna”) from Latin thunnus, itself from Ancient Greek θύννος (thúnnos). Possibly in the sense of "darter" from thynein "to dart along". Doublet of tonno.

tuna (countable and uncountable, plural tuna or tunas)

2. Any of several species of fish of the genus Thunnus in the family Scombridae.
   • 1887, John White, The Ancient History of the Maori, page 84:

     Tuna was carried down by the flood; and when Maui saw him in the net he stretched forth his arm and with a blow of his stone axe smote Tuna and cut off his head, and it and the tail fell into the ocean. ... The head became fish, and the tail became the koiro (ngoiro—conger-eel).

3. The edible flesh of the tuna.

• tuna fish, tunny

• → Armenian: թունա (tʻuna)

• tuna on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Thunnus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• “tuna”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “tuna, n.²”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1915.

From Taíno.

tuna (plural tunas)

1. The prickly pear, a type of cactus native to Mexico in the genus Opuntia.
2. The fruit of the cactus.
   • 1907, Experiment Station Work, volume 3, page 94:

     THE TUNA OR PRICKLY PEAR AS A FOOD FOR MAN

• Halimeda tuna

• xoconostle

• Opuntia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Opuntia on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Opuntia on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

• -naut, aunt, naut., tuan

From Proto-Cariban *tuna.

tuna

1. water
2. rain

• Journal of the Walter Roth Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, issue 13 (2001), page 12: "(Both Kapon and Pemon groups use tuna to mean "water", but Pemon employ konok which specifically means "rain" - a word which is lacking in the Akawaio language so that tuna is used to refer to rain and to water in general.)"

From Proto-Cariban *tuna.

tuna

1. water

• paru

• Edward Henry Koehn, Sally Sharp Koehn, Vocabulário Básico, Apalaí-Português Dicionário da Língua Apalaí (1995), page 52

Likely ultimately from Proto-Cariban *tuna.

tuna

1. water

• Aquiles, Pérez, Los puruhuayes, volume 2, page 314 (1970)
• Willem F. H. Adelaar, The Languages of the Andes

From Proto-Cariban *tuna.

tuna

1. (Carijona) water

• túuna (Hianacoto)

• Las lenguas indígenas de América y el español de Cuba (1993)

From Proto-Philippine *tuna, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tuna, from Proto-Austronesian *tuNa.

• Hyphenation: tu‧na

tuna

1. the name of a small, glossy-black, worm-like snake, deadly poisonous, found in moist places in grasses and weeds, possibly the blind snake

From Proto-Cariban *tuna.

tuna

1. water

• Bartolomé Tavera-Acosta, En el sur: (Dialectos indígenas de Venezuela) (1907), page 317

tuna

1. (transitive) to laud, to praise

Likely from Proto-Cariban *tuna.

tuna

1. water

• Bartolomé Tavera-Acosta, En el sur: (Dialectos indígenas de Venezuela) (1907), page 317
• Misiones jesuíticas en la Orinoquía (1625-1767) (1992, José del Rey Fajardo, Universidad Católica del Táchira), page 573: agua Tam. tuna; Map. tuna; Yab. tuna; Chai, tuna; Cum. tuna;

• IPA^(key): [ˈtuna]

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tuna f

1. ton (unit of weight)

• “tuna”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “tuna”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

• Homophones: tunas, tunât

tuna

1. third-person singular past historic of tuner

From Proto-Cariban *tuna.

tuna

1. water

• This term is obligatorily unpossessed.

• Languages of the Amazon (2012, →ISBN, page 170

• IPA^(key): [ˈtu.na]
• Hyphenation: tu‧na

From Arabic تُنَّ (tunna), تُنّ (tunn), from Latin thunnus, from Ancient Greek θύννος (thúnnos).

tuna (plural tuna-tuna)

1. tuna, any of several species of fish of the genus Thunnus in the family Scombridae

Learned borrowing from Old Javanese tuna (“deficient, failing, lacking”), from Sanskrit तुन्न (tunna, “struck, hurt”).

tuna

1. damaged

• tuna-

• “tuna” 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.

From Proto-Cariban *tuna.

• (Venezuela) IPA^(key): [tunna]
• (Suriname) IPA^(key): [tuːna]

tuna (possessed tunary)

1. water
2. river

• Courtz, Hendrik (2008) A Carib grammar and dictionary‎^[1], Toronto: Magoria Books, →ISBN, page 392
• Ahlbrinck, Willem (1931) “tuna”, in Encyclopaedie der Karaïben, Amsterdam: Koninklijke Akademie van Wetenschappen, page 472; republished as Willem Ahlbrinck, Doude van Herwijnen, transl., L'Encyclopédie des Caraïbes‎^[2], Paris, 1956, page 462
• Adelaar, Willem F. H.; Pieter C. Muysken (2004) The Languages of the Andes

From Proto-Cariban *tuna.

tuna

1. water

• Bartolomé Tavera-Acosta, En el sur: (Dialectos indígenas de Venezuela) (1907), page 317
• Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald, Languages of the Amazon (2012), page 188

Probably borrowed from Old Javanese tuna (“deficient, failing, lacking”), from Sanskrit तुन्न (tunna, “struck, hurt”).

• IPA^(key): /ʼtuna/, [ˈt̪ʰu.na]
• Hyphenation: tu‧na

tuna (Lontara spelling ᨈᨘᨊ)

1. low (of price, height)

   Na ia butta matinggia ri kasaʼrakkanga, na matuna ri pammumbàng, iami antu masarro laʼbiriʼ niempòi.

   Now the ground that rises high toward the west and is low toward the east is excellent for building a dwelling.

   Tunami ballinna.

   The price is already low.

2. low in value, insignificant, minor, inferior
3. lesser, lowly, disgraced
4. poor, miserable

   Tuna memang tau toaku.

   My parents are indeed despicable.

5. cheap (in price)
6. modest, humble

   Tuna ri kana-kananna.

   He was humble in his words.

tuna (Lontara spelling ᨈᨘᨊ)

1. Used in comparisons, to indicate something is lesser or equivalent in some respect.

• A. A. Cense (2024) Makassaars-Nederlands woordenboek‎^[3], Brill, →DOI

• IPA^(key): /tuna/
• Rhymes: -una, -na, -a

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tuna, from Proto-Austronesian *tuNa (“freshwater eel”).

tuna (Jawi spelling تونا, plural tuna-tuna)

1. The name of a mudsnake or eel with a yellowish body, possibly the marbled eel, Anguilla marmorata.
   • 2015 December 6, Shaiful Shahrin Ahmad Pauzi, “Rezeki lampam mabuk menyerah diri [Pixilated tinfoil barb surrendered itself]”, in Berita Harian‎^[4], archived from the original on 20 March 2016:

     Mohd Akhmal berkata, selain ikan lampam, seorang penduduk turut dapat menangkap seekor belut tuna seberat hampir tiga kilogram menggunakan jala.

     Mohd Akhmal said, besides a tinfoil barb, a resident has managed to catch a marbled eel weighing almost three kilograms using a net.

• ikan linang

• belut tuna
• ular tuna
• tuna sungai

From English tuna.

tuna (Jawi spelling تونا, plural tuna-tuna)

1. tuna, any of several species of fish of the genus Thunnus in the family Scombridae.

• ikan tuna

From Sanskrit तुणति (tuṇati, “crooked”).

tuna (plural tuna-tuna)

1. wound

tuna

1. damaged, flawed, injured

• "tuna" in Kamus Dewan, Fourth Edition, Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, →ISBN, 2005.
• “tuna” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

From Proto-Polynesian *tuna, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tuna, from Proto-Austronesian *tuNa (“freshwater eel”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈtʉ.nɐ]

tuna

1. eel of various species, including longfin eels (Anguilla dieffenbachii) and shortfin eels (Anguilla australis)

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

From Proto-Cariban *tuna.

tuna

1. water

• Bartolomé Tavera-Acosta, En el sur: (Dialectos indígenas de Venezuela) (1907), page 317
• Misiones jesuíticas en la Orinoquía (1625-1767) (1992, José del Rey Fajardo, Universidad Católica del Táchira), page 573: agua Tam. tuna; Map. tuna; Yab. tuna; Chai, tuna; Cum. tuna;

tuna n

1. definite plural of tun

• IPA^(key): /ˈtuː.nɑ/

tūna

1. genitive plural of tūn

From Proto-Cariban *tuna.

tuna

1. water

• tuná-in'i /tuna-iño

• Caminos de historia en el Carare-Opón (1999), page 254: Agua . . . Tuna
• Boletín de la Academia Colombiana (1959): en el Opón-Karare: tuna

tuna

1. alternative form of tïna (“water”)

• Bartolomé Tavera-Acosta, En el sur: (Dialectos indígenas de Venezuela) (1907), page 317
• Jean-Paul Dumont, Under the Rainbow: Nature and Supernature among the Panare (2014)
• Marie-Claude Mattei Müller, Yoroko: a Panare shaman's confidences (1992), page 141

From Proto-Cariban *tuna.

• IPA^(key): /tuˈna/^[1]

tuna

1. water

• Journal of the Walter Roth Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, issue 13 (2001), page 12: "(Both Kapon and Pemon groups use tuna to mean "water", but Pemon employ konok which specifically means "rain" - a word which is lacking in the Akawaio language so that tuna is used to refer to rain and to water in general.)"

• Katia Nepomuceno Pessoa, Fonologia Taurepang e comparação preliminar da fonologia de línguas do grupo Pemóng (família Caribe) (2006), page 139

Borrowed from Spanish tuna (“singing group”).^[1]

tuna f (plural tunas)

1. (music) a college singing group, wearing ornate clothes

• tuno

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

tuna

1. inflection of tunar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

From Proto-Polynesian *tuna, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tuna, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tuna, from Proto-Austronesian *tuNa (“freshwater eel”).

tuna

1. a kind of fish
2. a striped lagoon eel, toothless and edible

• tuna taupulepule
• tuna wenua
• palu tuna

• Te Pukamuna | Pukapuka Dictionary

From Proto-Cariban *tuna.

tuná

1. water

• Vom Roraima zum Orinoco, volume 4
• Revista andina, volume 11 (1993), page 451

Borrowed from Spanish tuna.

tuna

1. prickly pear (fruit)

• tunas mallki (“prickly pear cactus”)
• tunasqachu (“drunk”)

• Pérez, Julio Calvo (2022) Nuevo diccionario español-quechua quechua-español, Vol. 2, Lima: University of San Martín de Porres, p. 1114.

Inherited from Latin tonāre, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tenh₂- (“to thunder”).

a tuna (third-person singular present tună, past participle tunat, third-person subjunctive tune) 1st conjugation

1. to thunder
2. to speak thunderously

• tunare

• detuna
• tunet
• tun

• fulgera
• trăsni

From Proto-Polynesian *tuna, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tuna, from Proto-Austronesian *tuNa.

tuna

1. eel

From Proto-Cariban *tuna.

tu꞉ná

1. water

• Vom Roraima zum Orinoco, volume 4
• Revista andina, volume 11 (1993), page 451

• IPA^(key): /ˈtuna/ [ˈt̪u.na]
• Rhymes: -una
• Syllabification: tu‧na

Borrowed from Taíno.

tuna f (plural tunas)

1. prickly pear, the fruit of the nopal cactus (Opuntia, especially Opuntia ficus-indica)

   Synonym: higo de tuna

2. nopal

   Synonyms: nopal, higuera de tuna, higuera de Indias

• Tuna is a false friend and does not mean a kind of fish in Spanish. The Spanish word for that English meaning of tuna is atún.

Borrowed from French tune, possibly from roi de Thunes (“king of Tunis”), a title used by leaders of vagabonds.

tuna f (plural tunas)

2. (Spain) a college singing group, wearing ornate clothes, called in the Americas estudiantina

• → Portuguese: tuna

• “tuna”, 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
• Tuna (music) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

tuna f (plural tunas)

1. female equivalent of tuno

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

tuna

1. inflection of tunar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

tuna

1. first-person plural present affirmative of -wa na

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /tuˈnaʔ/ [t̪ʊˈn̪aʔ]
• Rhymes: -aʔ
• Syllabification: tu‧na

tunâ (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜓᜈ) (chiefly dialectal)

1. submerged; sunk

   Synonym: lubog

2. collapsed; destroyed

   Synonyms: giba, bagsak, lagpak, huso

Borrowed from English tuna, from American Spanish alteration of the Spanish atún, from Andalusian Arabic, from Arabic اَلتُّنّ (at-tunn, “tuna”) from Latin thunnus, from Ancient Greek θύννος (thúnnos). Doublet of atun.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈtuna/ [ˈt̪uː.n̪ɐ]
• Rhymes: -una
• Syllabification: tu‧na

tuna (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜓᜈ)

1. tuna

   Synonym: atun

• tulingan

• “tuna”, in KWF Diksiyonaryo ng Wikang Filipino, Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2024
• “tuna”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

• unat

From Proto-Cariban *tuna.

tuna

1. water

• Bartolomé Tavera-Acosta, En el sur: (Dialectos indígenas de Venezuela) (1907), page 316-7
• Misiones jesuíticas en la Orinoquía (1625-1767) (1992, José del Rey Fajardo, Universidad Católica del Táchira), page 573: agua Tam. tuna; Map. tuna; Yab. tuna; Chai, tuna; Cum. tuna;

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tuna.

tuna

1. eel

From Proto-Cariban *tuna.

tuna

1. water

• Eithne Carlin, A Grammar of Trio: A Cariban Language of Suriname (2004)

From Proto-Cariban *tuna.

tuna

1. water

• Sergio Meira, Primeras observaciones sobre la lengua yukpa (2005) (mentions "wayana tuna he wai " in notes)

From Proto-Cariban *tuna.

tuná

1. water

• Vom Roraima zum Orinoco, volume 4
• Revista andina, volume 11 (1993), page 451

From Proto-Cariban *tuna.

tuna

1. water

• Bartolomé Tavera-Acosta, En el sur: (Dialectos indígenas de Venezuela) (1907), page 317
• Misiones jesuíticas en la Orinoquía (1625-1767) (1992, José del Rey Fajardo, Universidad Católica del Táchira), page 573: agua Tam. tuna; Map. tuna; Yab. tuna; Chai, tuna; Cum. tuna;

From Proto-Cariban *tuna.

• IPA^(key): [tuna]

tuna

1. water
2. river, watercourse

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “tuna”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[5], Lyon
• Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, pages 217, 399: “[ṭuna] 'water' […] tuna - water”
• Hall, Katherine (2007) “tuna”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎^[6], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021