ana

See also: Appendix:Variations of "ana"

English

Etymology 1

Formed from the Latin suffix -ana; compare ism (from -ism), itis (from -itis), phobia (from -phobia).

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -ɑːnə

Noun

ana (plural anas)

  1. A collection of things associated with a person or place, especially a personal collection of anecdotes or conversations at table
    • 1803, publisher's advertisement in Memoirs of the Late Mrs. Robinson, Page 8
      The FRENCH ANAS, or Selections from the best of the French Anas, interspersed with biographical sketches. In three elegant Volumes, small 8vo. price 15s. boards
    • 1903, Thomas Jefferson, Franklin B. Sawvel (editor), The complete anas of Thomas Jefferson, Round Table Press, New York
    • 2008, Kevin J. Hayes, The road to Monticello: The life and mind of Thomas Jefferson,
      Jefferson was aware of the literary tradition of anas, which extended back at least as far as Athenaeus's Dipnosophistarum, a delightful collection of table talk from ancient times covering a variety of subjects including law, literature, medicine, and philosophy.

Etymology 2

From Ancient Greek ἀνά (aná, “of each”).

Adverb

ana (not comparable)

  1. (in prescriptions) Of each; an equal quantity.
    wine and honey, ana [or contracted to aa] / ij
    of wine and honey, each, two ounces
Synonyms
  • (of each): aa (abbreviation)

Etymology 3

Noun

ana (uncountable)

  1. (Internet, slang) Anorexia (used especially by the pro-ana movement).
Derived terms

Etymology 4

Ancient Greek; see ana-.

Adverb

ana (comparative more ana, superlative most ana)

  1. In a direction analogous to up, but along the additional axis added by the fourth dimension.
    • 1985, Rudy von Bitter Rucker, The Fourth Dimension: A Guided Tour of the Higher Universes (page 43)
      Your right half would move ana, let us say, and your left half would move kata. The two halves would, in their parallel spaces, move past the plane of rotation, and then they would swing back into our space.
    • 2005, Animation journal (volumes 13-15)
      Added to the conventional FPS control keys are two extra keys that move the player in ana and kata direction in 4d space. If you go in this extra direction the space around you changes, the room transforms.
Antonyms

Etymology 5

Hindi; see anna

Noun

ana (plural anas)

  1. Alternative form of anna: a former subdivision of the rupee.

Anagrams

Alabama

Pronoun

ana

  1. me

Aneme Wake

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɑnɑ/

Noun

ana

  1. tree

Azerbaijani

Other scripts
Cyrillic ана
Roman ana
Perso-Arabic آنا‎

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *ana or *eńe (“mother”). Cognate with Old Turkic [script needed] (ana, “mother”).

Noun

ana (definite accusative ananı, plural analar)

  1. mother

Declension

Declension of ana
singular plural
nominative ana analar
definite accusative ananı anaları
dative anaya analara
locative anada analarda
ablative anadan analardan
definite genitive ananın anaların

Antonyms

  • (with regards to gender): ata
  • (with regards to ancestry): oğul, qız

Chichewa

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈa.ná/

Noun

aná class 2

  1. plural of mwana

Crimean Tatar

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *ana.

Noun

ana

  1. mother

Declension

References

  • Mirjejev, V. A.; Usejinov, S. M. (2002) Ukrajinsʹko-krymsʹkotatarsʹkyj slovnyk [Ukrainian – Crimean Tatar Dictionary]‎, Simferopol: Dolya, →ISBN

Czech

Pronoun

ana

  1. (archaic) Alternative form of ona

Dongxiang

Etymology

Ultimately from Proto-Turkic *ana.

Compare Bonan aane, Karakhanid اَنا‎ (ana), Uyghur ئانا‎ (ana), Western Yugur ana, Turkish ana.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /aˈna/, [ɑˈnɑ]

Noun

ana

  1. mom, mama
    Chi matei anane bayasigvasenu, anachi tade baer lie ogine.
    No matter how much you make your mother happy, she will not give you money.

Synonyms

Gothic

Romanization

ana

  1. Romanization of 𐌰𐌽𐌰

Hawaiian

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian [Term?].

Noun

ana

  1. cave

Icelandic

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -aːna

Verb

ana (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative anaði, supine anað)

  1. to rush on, barge into

Conjugation

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Irish

Etymology 1

From Old Irish anae m (“wealth, riches, prosperity”).

Noun

ana m (genitive singular ana)

  1. (literary) wealth, prosperity
Declension

Etymology 2

Noun

ana f (genitive singular ana, nominative plural anaí)

  1. spell of fine weather
Declension

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
ana n-ana hana t-ana
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

Italian

Adverb

ana

  1. (medicine) ana (in equal quantities)

Japanese

Romanization

ana

  1. Rōmaji transcription of あな

Javanese

Pronoun

ana

  1. there is/are; to be

Kaxuyana

Pronoun

ana

  1. we (exclusive)

Reference

  • Spike Gildea, On Reconstructing Grammar: Comparative Cariban Morphosyntax

Lithuanian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ɐˈnɐ]
    • Audio(file)

Pronoun

anà f sg

  1. feminine singular nominative form of anas.
  2. feminine singular instrumental form of anas.

Malay

Etymology

From Arabic أَنَا‎ (ʾanā), from Proto-Semitic *’anāk-, from Proto-Afro-Asiatic *ˀanāku.

Pronunciation

Pronoun

ana (Jawi spelling انا)

  1. I (personal pronoun)
  2. me (direct object of a verb)
  3. me (object of a preposition)
  4. me (indirect object of a verb)
  5. my (belonging to me)

See also

Maori

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *qana. Cognate to Samoan ana.

Noun

ana

  1. cave

Old High German

Etymology 1

Akin to Latin anus (“old woman”), Old Prussian ane (“grandmother”), etc.

Noun

ana f

  1. grandmother
  • ano (grandfather)

Etymology 2

From Proto-Germanic *ana, whence also Old English on, Old Norse á.

Preposition

ana

  1. at
  2. on
Descendants

Rapa Nui

Conjunction

ana

  1. if

Scots

Adverb

ana (not comparable)

  1. Alternative form of an a'

Swedish

Etymology

From German ahnen.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɑːna/

Verb

ana (present anar, preterite anade, supine anat, imperative ana)

  1. to guess, to believe that something will happen, or has happened. Being fairly certain, but acknowledges that after all, one could be wrong.
    Jag anar att någon kommer köpa den där billiga bilen snart.
    I think someone will come and buy that cheap car soon.
  2. to barely see
    Jag tror jag anar en katt i den busken.
    I think I can see (something which resembles) a cat in that bush.

Conjugation

Derived terms

Turkish

Etymology 1

Noun

ana

  1. dative singular of an

Etymology 2

From Proto-Turkic *ana (“mother”), *eńe (“mother”). Cognate with Old Turkic [script needed] (ana).

Noun

ana (definite accusative anayı, plural analar)

  1. (regional, childish, law) mother
    Bak görürsün! Seni anama şikâyet edeceğim.
    You will see! I will complain about you to my mother.
  2. main
    Ana sigorta atınca bütün ev karanlıkta kaldı.
    When the main fuse blew, the whole house was left in the dark.
Declension
Inflection
Nominative ana
Definite accusative anayı
Singular Plural
Nominative ana analar
Definite accusative anayı anaları
Dative anaya analara
Locative anada analarda
Ablative anadan analardan
Genitive ananın anaların
Possessive forms
Singular Plural
1st singular anam analarım
2nd singular anan anaların
3rd singular anası anaları
1st plural anamız analarımız
2nd plural ananız analarınız
3rd plural anaları anaları
Predicative forms
Singular Plural
1st singular anayım analarım
2nd singular anasın analarsın
3rd singular ana
anadır		 analar
analardır
1st plural anayız analarız
2nd plural anasınız analarsınız
3rd plural analar analardır
Derived terms

See also

Vilamovian

Alternative forms

Conjunction

ana

  1. and

Wolof

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈa.na/
  • Audio(file)

Adverb

ana

  1. (interrogative) where is, how are

Usage notes

This word functions as a phrase, so no verb is needed.

See also

Zazaki

Noun

ana ?

  1. mother
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