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See also: Appendix:Variations of "mena"
English
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]MENA
- (politics) Initialism of Middle East News Agency (a Cairo-based news agency, established 1955, nationalized and affiliated to the Egyptian Ministry of Information in 1960.)
- (politics) Initialism of Middle East and North Africa.
Usage notes
[edit]In use since the 1970s by the IPPF.[1] Used by the World Bank / IMF from about 1980.[2] Often as "MENA Region" or "MENA region". The MENAFATF (or MENA FATF) was established in 2004.
Derived terms
[edit]Middle East, North Africa
Related terms
[edit]Middle East, North Africa
Anagrams
[edit]- -mane, -nema, Amen, Eman, Enma, MEAN, NAmE, NEMA, NMEA, amen, mane, mean, mnae, name, namé, neam, ñame
Spanish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]MENA m or f by sense (plural MENAS)
- (Spain) Acronym of menor extranjero no acompañado m., menor extranjera no acompañada f (“unaccompanied foreign minor”)
- 2019 November 10, Elvira Lindo, “Chiringuitos, inmigrantes, MENAS”, in El País[3]:
- En el autobús, una señora le decía a otra que prefería mil veces un centro de metadona que uno de MENAS (me encanta cómo nos hemos aprendido todos la palabreja).
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- 2021 January 25, Luis F. Durán, “Dos 'menas' insultan, amenazan y rompen el coche de una educadora que les retiró la paga por inhalar disolvente en el centro de Casa de Campo”, in El Mundo[4]:
- Dos menas del centro de la Casa de Campo insultaron, agredieron y causaron daños en el coche de una educadora del centro que decidió retirarles la paga semanal al incumplir las normas establecidas.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 2021 August 17, Pablo Gómez, “El duro ataque de Vox contra Almeida: “El PP con la izquierda: paguitas a los menas y Madrid Central””, in La Razón[5]:
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