nanka

Akan

Noun

nanka (plural ananka) (Twi)

1. boa (snake)

References

• LearnAkan (2018–present), “boa”, in LearnAkanDictionary.com (overall work in English)

Japanese

Romanization

nanka

1. Rōmaji transcription of なんか

Kapampangan

Alternative forms

• nanuka

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Austronesian *(na-)nu

Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *anu

Kapampangan nanu

Kapampangan ka

Kapampangan nanka

From nanu + ka.

Interjection

nanka

1. what's up?

Polish

Etymology

Onomatopoeic + -ka.

Pronunciation

• (Greater Poland):
  • (Chełmno-Dobrzyń) IPA^(key): [ˈnan.ka]

Noun

nanka f

1. (Chełmno-Dobrzyń, endearing) synonym of mama

Further reading

• Antoni Krasnowolski (1879), “nanka”, in Album uczącéj się młodzieży polskiéj poświęcone Józefowi Ignacemu Kraszewskiemu z powodu jubileuszu jego pięćdziesięcioletniéj działalności literackiéj (in Polish), Lviv: Czytelni Akademickiéj Lwowskiéj; "Gaz. Narod." J. Dobrzańskiego i K. Gromana, Słowniczek prowincjalizmów zebranych w ziemi chełmińskiej i świeckiej, page 305

Tooro

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /náːŋka/

Noun

nanka class 1a (plural baananka class 2a, augmentless only)

1. a certain person, a particular person

   Nanka agenzire aha? ― Where has that person gone?

2. someone, somebody

   Synonym: omuntu

   Haroho nanka. ― There is somebody here.

References

• Kaji, Shigeki (2007), A Rutooro Vocabulary‎^[1], Tokyo: Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA), →ISBN, pages 435-436