nena

See also: nenä

Catalan

Alternative forms

• nina

Noun

nena f (plural nenes, masculine nen)

1. girl, female child

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Dupaningan Agta

Noun

nena

1. mother (term of reference)

Synonyms

• hena

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Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Galician-Portuguese neno, nena (“young, tender”), from Vulgar Latin *ninnus, probably imitative of infantile language. Cognate with Spanish niña.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈne.na/

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Noun

nena f (plural nenas)

1. child (female), especially before puberty

   Synonyms: cativa, meniña, rapariga, rapaza

2. girl; young woman
   • 1403, M. M .Graña Cid (ed.), Las órdenes mendicantes en el obispado de Mondoñedo. El convento de san Martín de Villaoriente (1374-1500). Estudios Mindonienses, page 237:

     Item mando que den aa nena que mora en na casa duas trases et hun tornes et huna camisa et duas sauaas

     Item, I order that they give to the girl that lives at the house two trases [?] and a solidus from Tours and a shirt and two sheets

   Synonyms: meniña, moza

Related terms

• neno

References

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• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “nena”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
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• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “neno”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

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Ludian

Etymology

From .

Noun

nena

1. nose

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish [Term?] (Turkish nene).

Noun

nena f (Cyrillic spelling нена)

1. grandmother
2. grandma
3. granny
4. old woman

Synonyms

• baka, baba, nona

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈnena/ [ˈne.na]

Noun

nena f (plural nenas)

1. (deprecated template usage) feminine equivalent of nene; baby girl

   Coordinate term: niña

2. (colloquial) babe, dear (term of endearment to a woman or girl)

Derived terms

• nenita

Further reading

• “nene”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

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Veps

Etymology

From .

Noun

nena

1. nose (on face)
2. nose (of a shoe)

Derived terms

• nenasäl'gmed
• nenanjur'

References

• Zajceva, N. G., Mullonen, M. I. (2007) “нос, носок”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary]‎^[1], Petrozavodsk: Periodika