tena

See also: Appendix:Variations of "tena"

Dupaningan Agta

Noun

tena

1. any flying insect

Laboya

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈteːna]

Etymology 1

Noun

tena

1. boat

Etymology 2

Adjective

tena

1. correct

   Antonym: jala

References

• Allahverdi Verdizade (2019) “tena”, in Lamboya word list‎^[1], Leiden: LexiRumah

Makasar

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈtena]

Adverb

tena (Lontara spelling ᨈᨙᨊ)

1. not (clause negator)

   Tena nakulle a'gio'. ― He cannot move.

Verb

tena (Lontara spelling ᨈᨙᨊ)

1. (negative existential) there is not; to have not

   Tena tau ja'dala' anne ri kamponga. ― There is no evil person in this village.

   Tena doekku. ― I don't have money. (literally, “There is no money of mine.”)

Maltese

Root
t-n-j
6 terms

Etymology

From Arabic ثَنَى (ṯanā).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɛ.na/

Verb

tena (imperfect jitni, past participle mitni, verbal noun tini)

1. to fold

Conjugation

Conjugation of tena
		singular				plural
		1st person	2nd person	3rd person		1st person	2nd person	3rd person
perfect	m	tfejt	tfejt	tefa		tfejna	tfejtu	tfew
	f			tfiet
imperfect	m	nitfi	titfi	jitfi		nitfu	titfu	jitfu
	f			titfi
imperative			itfi				itfu

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• tene (e infinitive)

Etymology

From Old Norse þjóna, þéna.

Verb

tena (present tense tener, past tense tente, past participle tent, passive infinitive tenast, present participle tenande, imperative ten)

1. to earn

   Om sumaren kan dei tena mykje pengar.

   During the summer, they can earn a lot of money.

2. to serve

   Han tente landet sitt.

   He served his country.

References

• “tena” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Pali

Alternative forms

Alternative scripts

• 𑀢𑁂𑀦 (Brahmi script)
• तेन (Devanagari script)
• তেন (Bengali script)
• තෙන (Sinhalese script)
• တေန or တေၼ (Burmese script)
• เตน or เตนะ (Thai script)
• ᨲᩮᨶ (Tai Tham script)
• ເຕນ or ເຕນະ (Lao script)
• តេន (Khmer script)
• 𑄖𑄬𑄚 (Chakma script)

Adverb

tena

1. there
   • 2006, The First Book in the Suttanta-Pitaka: Dīgha-Nikāya (I)‎^[2], page 88:

     11. අථ ඛො රාජා මාගධො අජාතසත‍්තු වෙදෙහිපුත‍්තො යාවතිකා නාගස‍්ස භූමි නාගෙන ගන‍්ත්‍වා නාගා පච‍්චොරොහිත්‍වා පත‍්තිකො ‘ව යෙන මණ‍්ඩලමාළස‍්ස ද‍්වාරං තෙනුපසඞ‍්කමි.

     11. atha kho rājā māgadho ajātasattu vedehiputto yāvatikā nāgassa bhūmi nāgena gantvā nāgā paccorohitvā pattiko ’va yena maṇḍalamāḷassa dvāraṃ tenupasaṅkami.

     11. And then indeed the king of Magadha, Ajatashatru, son of the woman from Videha, went by elephant as far as there was room for an elephant, then dismounted from the elephant, and then went on only on foot to where the door of the pavilion was.

Adjective

tena

1. (demonstrative) masculine/neuter instrumental singular of ta (“that”)

Pronoun

tena

1. instrumental singular of ta (“him, it, that”)

Spanish

Noun

tena f (plural tenas)

1. a type of pepper.

Further reading

• “tena”, in Diccionario de la lengua española (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy, 2023 November 28

Swahili

Etymology

Compare Egyptian Arabic تاني (tāni, [tɛːnɪ], “again”), from Arabic ثانٍ (ṯānin, “second”). The similarity may be coincidental, however.

Pronunciation

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Adverb

tena

1. again

   Nitacheza mpira wa miguu tena

   I will play football again

2. moreover
3. (in a negative sentence) again, anymore

   Sisi sio marafiki tena

   We are not friends anymore

   Sijui tena

   I don't know anymore

Conjunction

tena

1. and also
   • 1973, Mohammed S. Abdulla, Duniani kuna watu, page 3:

     […] si chini ya miaka thelathini, mwembamba tena mrefu, hadharani wa rangi, kavaa koti na suruali namna moja, rangi ya kijivujivu, […]

     […] not less than thirty years old, thin and tall, fair-skinned, wearing grey jacket and pants of a kind, […]