una

See also: Una, UNA, Úna, uña, unã, üna, and un-a

Asturian

Asturian cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : una     Ordinal : primeru

Etymology

From Latin ūna, inflected form of ūnus.

Numeral

una f (masculine un or unu)

1. feminine singular of un

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Bepour

Noun

una

1. louse

Further reading

• Johannes A. Z'graggen, A comparative word list of the Northern Adelbert Range Languages, Madang Province, Papua New Guinea (1980, Canberra: Pacific Linguistics), cited by transnewguinea.org
• Bepour Swadesh List (The Rosetta Project: A Long Now Foundation Library of Human Language)

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Bura

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [úná]

Noun

una

1. salt

References

• 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.

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Catalan

Etymology

From Latin ūna, feminine of ūnus.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /ˈu.nə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈu.na/

Article

una

1. feminine singular of un

Numeral

una

1. feminine singular of un

Pronoun

una

1. feminine singular of un

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Cebuano

Cebuano ordinal numbers

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Cardinal : usa     Ordinal : una     Adverbial : makausa     Distributive : usa-usa

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish una, feminine of uno, from Latin ūnus

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈuna/
• Hyphenation: una

Numeral

una

1. first; 1st

   Synonyms: ika-1, ikausa

   Ang Murcury ang unang planeta gikan sa adlaw. ― Mercury is the first planet from the sun.

Usage notes

• The suffix -ng is used with the word to modify the word it modifies.

  unang oras ― first hour

Noun

una

1. (comparable) ahead, early.

   Siya ang pinakauna nga na-abot. ― He was the very first to arrive.

2. (not comparable) the first place.

   Una si Juan, ikaduha si Maria. ― First is John, second is Mary.

3. (not comparable) the first placer: someone or something ranked first place, that is, one who is above all the other ranks.

Adverb

una

1. first, firstly; before anything else

   Synonyms: una sa tanan

   Dugay na mi naka-uli kay, una, late na man kaayo naabot ang amoang drayber, ikaduha,...

   We didn't arrive home early because, first, our driver arrived very late to take us home, second,...

2. (ordinal adverbial) first time

   Mao ni ang pinakauna nakong sakay sa eroplano. ― This is my very first time on a plane.

Derived terms

Terms derived from una

• kinaunahan
• mag-una
• mag-unauna
• maunaunahon
• mga sina unang tawo
• mo-una

• pangunahan
• pasiuna
• pauna
• sauna
• sauna nga lugar

• unahan
• una sa tanan
• una sin otra
• unauna
• unaunahon

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Corsican

Article

una f

1. a, one

Related terms

• u

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Greenlandic

Particle

una (plural uku)

1. an enclitic written by hyphenating or by assimilation which indicates to be.

   ujarak-una

   It is a stone.

   kia-una nasaa? or kianna nasaa?

   Whose cap is it?

Pronoun

una

1. medial pronoun; that nearby, he/she/it nearby.
   • 1992, Erik Münster (quoting anonymous), "Kinguaassiuutikkut nappaataava", Atuagagdliutit

     Siggunni seerisut tassaapput herpes taakkulu qallunaatut taaguutit nuannarineqartut "forkølelses- imlt. kyssesår" atorneqarput, kiinami tinupasunut seerisunut, pingaartumik siggunni.

     ["Leakings/leakers"? (seerivoq + -toq)] on the mouth are herpes, and the Danish popular [probably a mistranslation of populær, which also means "widely used"] terms "forkølelses- or kyssesår" are used about leaking lumps in the face, especially on the mouth.

   • 1988, "AIDS-INFO", Atuagagdliutit

     Naqitigaaqqat AIDS pillugu paasisitsiniutit Afrikami kujallermi umiarsualivinnut agguaanneqarsimapput umiartortut nappaassuarmut ulorianartumut taassumunnga mianersoqquniarlugit, ...

     Pamphlets informing about AIDS were distributed to harbours in South Africa, so as to warn sailors against this dangerous big disease [nappaassuaq "big disease" might be idiomatic], ...

Declension

Declension of una

	singular	plural
absolutive	una	uku
ergative	uuma	ukua
allative	uumunnga	ukununnga
ablative	uumannga	ukunannga
prosecutive	uumuuna	ukunuuna
locative	uumani	ukunani
instrumental	uuminnga	ukuninnga
equative	uumatut	ukunatut

See also

• manna (“this here”)
• innga (“that yonder”)
• kanna (“that down a medial distance”)
• sanna (“that down a long distance”)
• pinnga (“that up a medial distance”)
• panna (“that up a long distance”)
• qanna (“that in there/out there”)
• anna (“that in the north”)
• kinnga (“that in the south/that outside”)

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Icelandic

Verb

una

1. (with dative) to be satisfied, feel happy

   Synonyms: líða vel

2. to stay, linger

   Synonyms: dveljast

Derived terms

• una sér vel
• una sér vel staðar
• una sér við

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Italian

Etymology

From Latin ūna, feminine of ūnus.

Adjective

una f sg

1. Feminine singular of adjective uno.

Article

una

1. feminine singular of uno

Pronoun

una

1. feminine singular of uno

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Ladin

Adjective

una f

1. one

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Latin

Etymology

Inflected form of ūnus (“one”)

Pronunciation

• Nominative/vocative singular forms: (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈuː.na/
• Ablative singular form and adverb: (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈuː.naː/

Numeral

ūna

1. nominative feminine singular of ūnus
2. vocative feminine singular of ūnus

ūnā

1. ablative feminine singular of ūnus

Adverb

ūnā (not comparable)

1. together, simultaneously
2. at the same place

Usage notes

• Sometimes written as "ūnā cum"

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Nigerian Pidgin

Etymology

From Igbo unu.

Pronoun

una

1. you all

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Occitan

Etymology

From Latin ūna (“one”).

Article

una f (masculine un)

1. a, an (feminine singular indefinite article)

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Old Tupi

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /-ˈũna/

Adjective

una

1. black

Usage notes

• The stem un could never be used inside a sentence without a prefix. The infinitives were suna (“a thing being black”) and tuna (“a person being black”); the form -runa would be used in combination with words ending in a stressed vowel; and the form -una would be used in combination with other words.

References

• LEMOS BARBOSA, A. Curso de Tupi antigo. Rio de Janeiro: Livraria São José, 1956.

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Portuguese

Verb

una

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of unir
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of unir
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of unir
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of unir

Adjective

una

1. Feminine singular of adjective uno.

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Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈuna/

Numeral

una f

1. feminine of unu: one

Pronoun

una

1. feminine singular nominative form of unul
2. feminine singular accusative form of unul

Related terms

• o

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈuna/

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Etymology 1

From Latin ūna, feminine of ūnus.

Adjective

una

1. Feminine singular of adjective uno.

Article

una

1. feminine singular of un

Noun

una f (plural unas)

1. feminine equivalent of uno

Pronoun

una f (masculine uno)

1. we (an indefinite plural pronoun using a singular feminine item, used for females)

Etymology 2

Verb

una

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of unir.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of unir.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of unir.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of unir.

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Tagalog

Numeral

una

1. first; 1st

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Welsh

Alternative forms

• unaf (first-person singular future)
• uniff (colloquial, third-person singular future)
• unith (colloquial, third-person singular future)

Pronunciation

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈɨ̞na/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈiːna/, /ˈɪna/

Verb

una

1. (colloquial) first-person singular future of uno
2. (literary) third-person singular future of uno
3. second-person singular imperative of uno

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical	soft	nasal	h-prothesis
una	unchanged	unchanged	huna
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.