Una

See also: Appendix:Variations of "una"

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -uːnə

Etymology 1

Anglicized form of Irish Úna. Doublet of Oona.

Proper noun

Una

1. A female given name from Irish.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 2:

     Who after that he had faire Una lorne, / Through light misdeeming of her loialtie, / And false Duessa in her sted had borne, […]

Derived terms

• Una boat

Related terms

• Oona
• Oonagh

Etymology 2

Proper noun

Una

2. A tributary of the Sava, between Bosnia and Croatia

Translations

Translations

• French:

  Middle French: Huna

Etymology 3

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₁weh₂-

Proto-Indo-European *h₁uh₂-nó-s

Proto-Indo-Iranian *HuHnás

Sanskrit ऊ॒न (ūná)

Prakrit ऊण (ūṇa)

Hindi ऊना (ūnā)bor.

English Una

Borrowed from Hindi ऊना (ūnā).

Proper noun

Una

1. A district of Himachal Pradesh, India.

Anagrams

• Anu, Nau, añu, nau

Faroese

Proper noun

Una f

1. a female given name

Usage notes

Matronymics

• Una's son: Unuson
• Una's daughter: Unudóttir

Declension

	singular
	indefinite
nominative	Una
accusative	Unu
dative	Unu
genitive	Unu

Latvian

Etymology

First recorded as a given name of Latvians in 1938. From Latin una (“one”), or possibly from English Una.

Proper noun

Una f

1. a female given name

References

• Klāvs Siliņš: Latviešu personvārdu vārdnīca. Riga "Zinātne" 1990, →ISBN
• [1] Population Register of Latvia: Una was the only given name of 1163 persons in Latvia on May 21st 2010.

Portuguese

Proper noun

Una ?

1. a municipality of Bahia, Brazil

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ǔːna/
• Hyphenation: U‧na

Proper noun

Úna f (Cyrillic spelling У́на)

1. Una (a tributary of the Sava in Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina)

Declension

Declension of Una

	singular
nominative	Una
genitive	Une
dative	Uni
accusative	Unu
vocative	Uno
locative	Uni
instrumental	Unom