tuna

See also: Tuna and tuná

English

Pronunciation

  • (General Australian, UK) enPR: tyo͞o'nə, IPA(key): /ˈtjuː.nə/
  • (US) enPR: to͞o'nə, IPA(key): /ˈtu.nə/, /ˈtju.nə/
  • Audio (US)(file)
  • Rhymes: -uːnə

Etymology 1

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From American Spanish alteration of the Spanish atún, from Arabic تُنّ‎ (tunn, “tuna”), from Latin thunnus, itself from Ancient Greek θύννος (thúnnos), from θύνω (thúnō), "I rush, dart along"). (Can this(+) etymology be sourced?)

Noun

tuna (countable and uncountable, plural tuna or tunas)

  1. Any of several species of fish of the genus Thunnus in the family Scombridae.
  2. The edible flesh of the tuna.
Synonyms
Derived terms
Translations

See also

Etymology 2

Taino

Prickly pear.

Noun

tuna (plural tunas)

  1. The prickly pear, a type of cactus native to Mexico in the genus Opuntia.
  2. The fruit of the cactus.
Translations
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See also

Further reading

Anagrams

Akawaio

Etymology

From Proto-Carib *tuna.

Noun

tuna

  1. water
  2. rain

References

  • 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.)"

Apalaí

Noun

tuna

  1. water

See also

References

Bagua

Noun

tuna

  1. water

References

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

Carijona

Noun

tuna

  1. (Carijona) water

Synonyms

References

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

Chaima

Noun

tuna

  1. water

References

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

Chamorro

Verb

tuna

  1. (transitive) to laud, to praise

Cumanagoto

Noun

tuna

  1. water

References

  • 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;

Czech

Noun

tuna f

  1. ton (unit of weight)

Further reading

  • tuna in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
  • tuna in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

French

Pronunciation

Verb

tuna

  1. third-person singular past historic of tuner

Galibi Carib

Etymology

From Proto-Carib *tuna.

Noun

tuna

  1. water

References

  • The Languages of the Andes (2004, Willem F. H. Adelaar, Pieter C. Muysken)

Hixkaryana

Etymology

From Proto-Carib *tuna.

Noun

tuna

  1. water

Usage notes

  • This term is obligatorily unpossessed.

References

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

Indonesian

Adjective

tuna

  1. damaged

Macushi

Noun

tuna

  1. water

References

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

Maori

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈtʉ.na]

Noun

tuna

  1. eel

Mapoyo

Noun

tuna

  1. water

References

  • 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;

Maquiritari

Etymology

From Proto-Carib *tuna.

Noun

tuna

  1. water
  2. river, watercourse

References

  • Ed. Key, Mary Ritchie and Comrie, Bernard. The Intercontinental Dictionary Series, Carib (De'kwana).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

tuna n

  1. definite plural of tun

Opón

Noun

tuna

  1. water

Synonyms

  • tuná-in'i /tuna-iño

References

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

Panare

Noun

tuna

  1. Alternative form of tïna

References

  • 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

Pemon

FWOTD – 6 September 2014

Etymology

From Proto-Carib *tuna.

Pronunciation

Noun

tuna

  1. water

References

  • 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.)"
  1. ↑ 2006, Katia Nepomuceno Pessoa, Fonologia Taurepang e comparação preliminar da fonologia de línguas do grupo Pemóng (família Caribe), Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, attachment 7.

Portuguese

Etymology 1

From tunar.

Verb

tuna

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

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Spanish tuna (“singing group”).

Noun

tuna f (plural tunas)

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

Further reading

Purukotó

Noun

tuná

  1. water

References

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

Romanian

Etymology

From Latin tonāre, present active infinitive of tonō, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tenh₂- (“to thunder”).

Verb

a tuna (third-person singular present tună, past participle tunat) 1st conj.

  1. to thunder
  2. to speak thunderously

Conjugation

Derived terms

  • tunare

See also

Samoan

Noun

tuna

  1. eel

Sapará

Noun

tu꞉ná

  1. water

References

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

Spanish

Etymology 1

From Taino

Noun

tuna f (plural tunas)

  1. prickly pear, the fruit of the nopal cactus (Opuntia, especially Opuntia ficus-indica).
  2. nopal
Usage notes
  • Tuna is a false friend, and does not mean a kind of fish in Spanish. Spanish equivalents are shown above, in the "Translations" section of the English entry tuna.
Synonyms
  • (prickly pear): higo de tuna
  • (nopal): nopal, higuera de tuna, higuera de Indias

Etymology 2

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

Noun

tuna f (plural tunas)

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

Further reading

Tamanaku

Noun

tuna

  1. water

References

  • 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;

Wayana

Noun

tuna

  1. water

References

Wayumará

Noun

tuná

  1. water

References

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

Yabarana

Noun

tuna

  1. water

References

  • 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;
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