nina

See also: Nina, NINA, Nína, niña, ñina, Ņina, and -nina

English

Etymology

From the name Nina, taken from the cartoonist Al Hirschfield's habit of hiding his daughter Nina's name in his drawings.

Noun

nina (plural ninas)

  1. A hidden message revealed in the completed grid of a crossword.
    • 2008 April 1, Ilan Caron, “Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 24350 set by Brendan”, in rec.puzzles.crosswords, Usenet‎:
      The puzzle itself was fairly easy however there was an elegant nina based on the middle entry (INSIDE STORY) in which each of the across answers hid a synonym of "story", e.g. 5A and 6A were: STABle gendER.
    • 2014 August 10, Brian Bethune, “The crossword’s meandering 100-year journey”, in Maclean's‎:
      Ninas may or may not be present and, even if one is there, it can go unnoticed because, not being intrinsic to the solution, its presence is not advertised—or because it is so well hidden.
    • 2014, Alan Connor, The Crossword Century: 100 Years of Witty Wordplay, Ingenious Puzzles, and Linguistic Mischief, Penguin →ISBN
      Other “personal” ninas are happier and subtler: birthday wishes to loved ones, which, ultimately, have only one intended reader

Anagrams

Aymara

Noun

nina

  1. fire

Catalan

Alternative forms

Noun

nina f (plural nines, masculine nin)

  1. (anatomy) pupil
  2. (dialectal) girl, female child

Synonyms

  • (pupil): pupil·la

Dalmatian

Etymology

From a Vulgar Latin root *ninna, a nursery or infantile word.

Noun

nina f

  1. mother

Estonian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *nenä.

Noun

nina (genitive nina, partitive nina)

  1. (anatomy) nose
  2. tip

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Japanese

Romanization

nina

  1. Rōmaji transcription of にな

Kamano

Noun

nina

  1. Alternative form of ni (water)

References

  • The Papuan Languages of New Guinea (1986, →ISBN

Miskito

Noun

nina

  1. name

Quechua

Noun

nina

  1. fire for cooking, candle, match

Declension

See also

Sasak

Noun

nina

  1. woman, female

References

  • Dictionary of the Sasak language of Lombok, with Indonesian and English (1995)

Xhosa

Etymology

From Proto-Nguni *niná.

Pronoun

niná

  1. you, you all; second-person plural absolute pronoun.

Zulu

Etymology

From Proto-Nguni *niná.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /niːná/

Pronoun

niná

  1. you, you all; second-person plural absolute pronoun.

Inflection

Stem -ni, poss. stem -ínú
Full form niná
Locative kuni
Full form niná
Locative kuni
Copulative yini
Possessive forms
Modifier Substantive
Class 1 wenu owenu
Class 2 benu abenu
Class 3 wenu owenu
Class 4 yenu eyenu
Class 5 lenu elenu
Class 6 enu awenu
Class 7 senu esenu
Class 8 zenu ezenu
Class 9 yenu eyenu
Class 10 zenu ezenu
Class 11 lwenu olwenu
Class 14 benu obenu
Class 15 kwenu okwenu
Class 17 kwenu okwenu

References

This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.