tuna

See also: Tuna and tuná

English

Pronunciation

• (Australia, UK) enPR: tyo͞o'nə, IPA^(key): /ˈtjuː.nə/
• (US) enPR: to͞o'nə, IPA^(key): /ˈtuː.nə/, /ˈtjuː.nə/

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• Rhymes: -uːnə

Etymology 1

Relative sizes of various tunas tuna on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

From American Spanish alteration of the Spanish atún, from Arabic تُنّ‏ (tunn, “tuna”), from Latin thunnus, itself from Ancient Greek θύννος (thúnnos), from θύνω (thúnō), "I rush, dart along"). (Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?)

Noun

tuna (countable and uncountable, plural tuna or tunas)

1. Any of several species of fish of the genus Thunnus in the family Scombridae.
2. The edible flesh of the tuna.

Synonyms

• tuna fish, tunny

Derived terms

• yellowfin tuna

Translations

fish

• Arabic: (collective) تُونَة‏‎ f (tūna), سَمَك اَلتُّن‏‎ m (samak at-tun)

  Morocco: طون‏‎ (ṭon)

• Armenian: թյուննոս (tʿyunnos)
• Catalan: tonyina (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 吞拿魚, 吞拿鱼 (tan¹ naa⁴ jyu²)

  Mandarin: 金槍魚 (zh), 金枪鱼 (zh) (jīnqiāngyú)

• Czech: tuňák (cs) m
• Danish: tun (da) c
• Dutch: tonijn (nl) m
• Faroese: tunfiskur m
• French: thon (fr) m
• Friulian: ton m
• Galician: atún (gl) m, túnido (gl) m
• Georgian: თინუსი (tinusi)
• German: Thunfisch (de) m
• Greek: τόνος (el) m (tónos)
• Hebrew: טונה‏‎ (he) f
• Hungarian: tonhal (hu)
• Ido: atuno (io)
• Italian: tonno (it) m
• Japanese: 鮪 (ja) (まぐろ, maguro), マグロ (ja) (maguro), ツナ (tsuna)

• Korean: 다랑어 (ko) (darang-eo), 참다랑어 (ko) (chamdarang-eo), 참치 (ko) (chamchi)
• Latin: thunnus m
• Latvian: tuncis
• Lithuanian: tunas m
• Macedonian: туна f (tuna)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: tunfisk (no) m

  Nynorsk: tunfisk m

• Polish: tuńczyk (pl) m
• Portuguese: atum (pt) m
• Romanian: ton (ro)
• Russian: туне́ц (ru) m (tunéc)
• Slovak: tuniak (sk) m
• Slovene: túna f
• Spanish: atún (es) m
• Swedish: tonfisk (sv) c
• Tagalog: tulingan, atun
• Turkish: orkinos (tr), ton balığı (tr)
• Vietnamese: cá ngừ đại dương
• Welsh: tiwna (cy) m
• Yiddish: טונפֿיש‏‎ m (tunfish)

flesh

• Lao: ທູນາ (thū nā)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: tunfisk (no) m

  Nynorsk: tunfisk m

See also

• tuna on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Thunnus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

Etymology 2

Taino

Noun

tuna (plural tunas)

1. The prickly pear, a type of cactus native to Mexico in the genus Opuntia.
2. The fruit of the cactus.

Translations

type of cactus

• Spanish: nopal (es) f

fruit of the cactus

• Spanish: tuna (es) f

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout#Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Korean: ^{(please verify)} 부채선인장 (buchaeseoninjang)

See also

• xoconostle

Further reading

• Opuntia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Opuntia on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Opuntia on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Anagrams

• -naut, aunt, naut., tuan

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Akawaio

Etymology

From Proto-Carib *tuna.

Noun

tuna

1. water
2. rain

References

• Journal of the Walter Roth Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, issue 13 (2001), page 12: "(Both Kapon and Pemon groups use tuna to mean "water", but Pemon employ konok which specifically means "rain" - a word which is lacking in the Akawaio language so that tuna is used to refer to rain and to water in general.)"

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Apalaí

Noun

tuna

1. water

See also

• paru

References

• Edward Henry Koehn, Sally Sharp Koehn, Vocabulário Básico, Apalaí-Português Dicionário da Língua Apalaí (1995), page 52

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Bagua

Noun

tuna

1. water

References

• Aquiles, Pérez, Los puruhuayes, volume 2, page 314 (1970)
• Willem F. H. Adelaar, The Languages of the Andes

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Carijona

Noun

tuna

1. (Carijona) water

Synonyms

• túuna (Hianacoto)

References

• Las lenguas indígenas de América y el español de Cuba (1993)

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Chaima

Noun

tuna

1. water

References

• Bartolomé Tavera-Acosta, En el sur: (Dialectos indígenas de Venezuela) (1907), page 317

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Chamorro

Verb

tuna

1. (transitive) to laud, to praise

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Cumanagoto

Noun

tuna

1. water

References

• Bartolomé Tavera-Acosta, En el sur: (Dialectos indígenas de Venezuela) (1907), page 317
• Misiones jesuíticas en la Orinoquía (1625-1767) (1992, José del Rey Fajardo, ‎Universidad Católica del Táchira), page 573: agua Tam. tuna; Map. tuna; Yab. tuna; Chai, tuna; Cum. tuna;

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Czech

Noun

tuna f

1. ton (unit of weight)

Further reading

• tuna in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• tuna in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

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French

Pronunciation

• Homophones: tunas, tunât

Verb

tuna

1. third-person singular past historic of tuner

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Galibi Carib

Etymology

From Proto-Carib *tuna.

Noun

tuna

1. water

References

• The Languages of the Andes (2004, Willem F. H. Adelaar, Pieter C. Muysken)

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Hixkaryana

Etymology

From Proto-Carib *tuna.

Noun

tuna

1. water

Usage notes

• This term is obligatorily unpossessed.

References

• Languages of the Amazon (2012, ISBN 0199593566), page 170

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Indonesian

Adjective

tuna

1. damaged

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Macushi

Noun

tuna

1. water

References

• Bartolomé Tavera-Acosta, En el sur: (Dialectos indígenas de Venezuela) (1907), page 317
• Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald, Languages of the Amazon (2012), page 188

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Maori

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈtʉ.na]

Noun

tuna

1. eel

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Mapoyo

Noun

tuna

1. water

References

• Bartolomé Tavera-Acosta, En el sur: (Dialectos indígenas de Venezuela) (1907), page 317
• Misiones jesuíticas en la Orinoquía (1625-1767) (1992, José del Rey Fajardo, ‎Universidad Católica del Táchira), page 573: agua Tam. tuna; Map. tuna; Yab. tuna; Chai, tuna; Cum. tuna;

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Maquiritari

Etymology

From Proto-Carib *tuna.

Noun

tuna

1. water
2. river, watercourse

References

• Ed. Key, Mary Ritchie and Comrie, Bernard. The Intercontinental Dictionary Series, Carib (De'kwana).

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

tuna n

1. definite plural of tun

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Opón

Noun

tuna

1. water

Synonyms

• tuná-in'i /tuna-iño

References

• Caminos de historia en el Carare-Opón (1999), page 254: Agua . . . Tuna
• Boletín de la Academia Colombiana (1959): en el Opón-Karare: tuna

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Panare

Noun

tuna

1. Alternative form of tïna

References

• Bartolomé Tavera-Acosta, En el sur: (Dialectos indígenas de Venezuela) (1907), page 317
• Jean-Paul Dumont, Under the Rainbow: Nature and Supernature among the Panare (2014)
• Marie-Claude Mattei Müller, Yoroko: a Panare shaman's confidences (1992), page 141

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Pemon

FWOTD – 6 September 2014

Etymology

From Proto-Carib *tuna.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tuˈna/

Noun

tuna

1. water

References

• Journal of the Walter Roth Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, issue 13 (2001), page 12: "(Both Kapon and Pemon groups use tuna to mean "water", but Pemon employ konok which specifically means "rain" - a word which is lacking in the Akawaio language so that tuna is used to refer to rain and to water in general.)"

• Katia Nepomuceno Pessoa, Fonologia Taurepang e comparação preliminar da fonologia de línguas do grupo Pemóng (família Caribe) (2006), page 139

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Portuguese

Etymology 1

From tunar.

Verb

tuna

1. third-person singular present indicative of tunar
2. second-person singular imperative of tunar

Etymology 2

Borrowing from Spanish tuna (“singing group”).

Noun

tuna f (plural tunas)

1. (music) a college singing group, wearing ornate clothes

Related terms

• tuno

Further reading

• tuna on the Portuguese Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^pt

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Purukotó

Noun

tuná

1. water

References

• Vom Roraima zum Orinoco, volume 4
• Revista andina, volume 11 (1993), page 451

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Romanian

Etymology

From Latin tonāre, present active infinitive of tonō, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tenh₂- (“to thunder”).

Verb

a tuna (third-person singular present tună, past participle tunat) 1st conj.

1. to thunder
2. to speak thunderously

Conjugation

    conjugation of tuna (first conjugation, no infix)

infinitive			a tuna
gerund			tunând
past participle			tunat
number		singular			plural
person		1st person	2nd person	3rd person	1st person	2nd person	3rd person
indicative		eu	tu	el/ea	noi	voi	ei/ele
	present	tun	tuni	tună	tunăm	tunați	tună
	imperfect	tunam	tunai	tuna	tunam	tunați	tunau
	simple perfect	tunai	tunași	tună	tunarăm	tunarăți	tunară
	pluperfect	tunasem	tunaseși	tunase	tunaserăm	tunaserăți	tunaseră
subjunctive		eu	tu	el/ea	noi	voi	ei/ele
	present	să tun	să tuni	să tune	să tunăm	să tunați	să tune
imperative		—	tu	—	—	voi	—
	affirmative		tună			tunați
	negative		nu tuna			nu tunați

Derived terms

• tunare

Related terms

• detuna
• tunet
• tun

See also

• fulgera
• trăsni

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Samoan

Noun

tuna

1. eel

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Sapará

Noun

tu꞉ná

1. water

References

• Vom Roraima zum Orinoco, volume 4
• Revista andina, volume 11 (1993), page 451

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Spanish

Etymology 1

From Taino

Noun

tuna f (plural tunas)

1. prickly pear, the fruit of the nopal cactus (Opuntia, especially Opuntia ficus-indica).
2. nopal

Synonyms

• (prickly pear): higo de tuna
• (nopal): nopal, higuera de tuna, higuera de Indias

Usage notes

• Tuna is a false friend, and does not mean a kind of fish in Spanish. Spanish equivalents are shown above, in the "Translations" section of the English entry tuna.

Etymology 2

From French tune, possibly from roi de Thunes (“king of Tunis”), a title used by leaders of vagabonds.

Noun

tuna f (plural tunas)

1. (Spain) a college singing group, wearing ornate clothes, called in the Americas estudiantina

Descendants

• Portuguese: tuna

Further reading

• Tuna (music) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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Tamanaku

Noun

tuna

1. water

References

• Bartolomé Tavera-Acosta, En el sur: (Dialectos indígenas de Venezuela) (1907), page 316-7
• Misiones jesuíticas en la Orinoquía (1625-1767) (1992, José del Rey Fajardo, ‎Universidad Católica del Táchira), page 573: agua Tam. tuna; Map. tuna; Yab. tuna; Chai, tuna; Cum. tuna;

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Wayana

Noun

tuna

1. water

References

• Sergio Meira, Primeras observaciones sobre la lengua yukpa (2005) (mentions "wayana tuna he wai" in notes)

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Wayumará

Noun

tuná

1. water

References

• Vom Roraima zum Orinoco, volume 4
• Revista andina, volume 11 (1993), page 451

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Yabarana

Noun

tuna

1. water

References

• Bartolomé Tavera-Acosta, En el sur: (Dialectos indígenas de Venezuela) (1907), page 317
• Misiones jesuíticas en la Orinoquía (1625-1767) (1992, José del Rey Fajardo, ‎Universidad Católica del Táchira), page 573: agua Tam. tuna; Map. tuna; Yab. tuna; Chai, tuna; Cum. tuna;