nini

See also: Nini

Brunei Malay

Etymology

Cognate with Malay nenek.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nini/
• Hyphenation: ni‧ni

Noun

nini

1. grandparent; grandfather or grandmother

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Hungarian

Etymology

ni +‎ ni

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈnini]
• Hyphenation: ni‧ni

Interjection

nini

1. (colloquial) lo!, look!

   Nini, egy madár! ― Look! A bird!

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Italian

Noun

nini m

1. plural of nino

Anagrams

• inni

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Old Irish

Alternative forms

• ninni

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *snisni (compare Welsh nini).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈn͈ʲin͈ʲi/

Pronoun

nini (emphatic)

1. we
   • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 43^d5

     Is nini fo·rálaig.

     It is we that it had prostrated.

   Synonyms: sinni, sisni, snisni

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Spanish

Etymology

A shortening of ni estudia ni trabaja (meaning “neither works nor studies”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈnini/ [ˈni.ni]

Noun

nini m or f (plural ninis)

1. (informal) neet, NEET

See also

• pasota

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Swahili

Pronoun

nini

1. what (interrogative pronoun)

Derived terms

• kwa nini

Related terms

• nani