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Abbreviation of English Andaqui.

ana

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Andaqui.

Formed from the Latin suffix -ana; compare ism (from -ism), itis (from -itis), phobia (from -phobia).

ana (plural anas)

  1. A collection of things associated with a person or place, especially a personal collection of anecdotes or conversations at table
    • 1803, publisher's advertisement in Memoirs of the Late Mrs. Robinson, Page 8
      The FRENCH ANAS, or Selections from the best of the French Anas, interspersed with biographical sketches. In three elegant Volumes, small 8vo. price 15s. boards
    • 2008, Kevin J. Hayes, The road to Monticello: The life and mind of Thomas Jefferson:
      Jefferson was aware of the literary tradition of anas, which extended back at least as far as Athenaeus's Dipnosophistarum, a delightful collection of table talk from ancient times covering a variety of subjects including law, literature, medicine, and philosophy.

From Ancient Greek ἀνά (aná, “of each”).

ana (not comparable)

  1. (in prescriptions) Of each; an equal quantity.
    Synonym: aa
    wine and honey, ana / ij
    of wine and honey, each, two ounces
    • 1599, Oswaldus Gabelhouer, translated by Charles Battus and A. M., The Boock of Physicke: […], Dort: […] Isaack Caen, page 116, column 2:
      Take Sugrede Coriandre ſeedes 3 qv. of an ovvnce, deſcidede liqveriſh ℥ [?]. Calmus, redd Roſes, ana a q. of an ounce, Cĩnamone 3 qv. of an ounce, Ginger, cloves, Mace, Nuttmegges, ana a q. of an oũce, all vvhich being contunded together, & as much Suger mixede thervvith, as ther is of the other poulder, or accordinge as vve deſire the dulcor therof, vve muſt in the morning faſting, or one hovver before ſuppervſe heerof.

Clipping of anorexia; intentionally formed to resemble the given name Ana as form of personification and coded language. Compare mia.

ana (uncountable)

  1. (Internet slang) Anorexia.

From Ancient Greek; see ana-.

ana (comparative more ana, superlative most ana)

  1. In a direction analogous to up, but along the additional axis added by the fourth dimension.
    Antonym: kata
    • 1985, Rudy von Bitter Rucker, The Fourth Dimension: A Guided Tour of the Higher Universes, page 43:
      Your right half would move ana, let us say, and your left half would move kata. The two halves would, in their parallel spaces, move past the plane of rotation, and then they would swing back into our space.
    • 2005, Animation journal, volumes 13-15:
      Added to the conventional FPS control keys are two extra keys that move the player in ana and kata direction in 4d space. If you go in this extra direction the space around you changes, the room transforms.

From Hindi अन्न (ann, “food, grain”), आना (ānā), from Sanskrit अन्न (anna).

ana (plural anas)

  1. Alternative form of anna (“a former subdivision of the rupee”).

ana (from Old Akkadian on)

  1. (place, people) to, toward, onto
    𒈦 𒆬𒌓𒊭 𒀀𒈾 𒀀𒄭𒉌 𒍣𒄴𒊑𒅎 𒉌𒆠𒅖
    [mišil kaspīša ana aḫīni ṣeḫrim niqīš]
    MAŠ KUG.BABBAR-ša a-na a-ḫi-ni ṣe-eḫ-ri-im ni-qi₂-iš
    We gave half of her silver to our young(est) brother.
  2. (time) for
  3. (time) within
  4. (purpose) for, in order to, in favor of

Cuneiform spellings

Logograms Phonetic
(from Middle Babylonian on) 𒁹 (DIŠ) (rare) 𒉆 (NAM) 𒀀𒈾 (a-na)
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ana

  1. me

ana

  1. definite nominative singular of anë

ana (plural ana-ana or anana)

  1. child

ana

  1. tree

From Proto-Turkic *ana or *ene (“mother”). Cognate with Old Turkic [script needed] (ana, “mother”).

ana (definite accusative ananı, plural analar)

  1. mother
    Synonym: mama
    Hyponyms: valideyn (“parent”), ata-ana (“parents”)
    Coordinate term: ata (“father”)

Borrowed from Arabic أَنَا (ʔanā).

ana

  1. Tangerang-Depok form of anè

Likely a variant of ina (“mother”), traditionally used as a respectful title for women.

anâ (Badlit spelling ᜀᜈ)

  1. (dialectal, Bohol, honorific) a title of respect for a female teacher; ma'am
    • 2026 January 25, Jes B. Tirol, “PAGTUKIB 288: Mga Pulong Binisayâ Nga Nawaní Na”, in The Bohol Tribune‎[4]:
      Ang tumbas sa Sir sa Binisayâ mao ang “Amba” ug ang tumbas sa Ma'am mao ang “Ana”. Kini gigamit alang sa mga magtutudlò.
      The equivalent of Sir in Bisayâ is “Amba” and the equivalent of Ma'am is “Ana”. These are used for teachers.

From Proto-Bantu *bàjánà. Cognate with Tumbuka ŵana.

aná class 2

  1. plural of mwana

Chungli Ao numbers (edit)

| | 20 | | | | -------------------------------------------------------------------- | - | -------------------------------------- | | ← 1 | 2 | 3 → | | Cardinal: ana | | |

One would wish to derive this from Proto-Central Naga *a-ni(t), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *kV-ni-s, but Bruhn rejects such a derivation due to irregularities in the rhyme and calls the origin of ana a "mystery". However, the rhyme could be accounted for as being analogical to ka (“one”).

ana

  1. two

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *nəj(ʔ).

ana

  1. to be near

Inflection of ana (Chungli)

| | Affirmative | Negative | | | | ------------------ | --------------- | ----------------- | ----- | | Past | Simple | ana | mana | | Perfect | anaogo | manaogo | | | Present | Simple | anar | manar | | Progressive | anadar anadagi | manadar manadagi | | | Future/infinitive | anatsü | manatsü | | | Imperative | anang | tana | | | Present participle | ana-a | manai | | | Conditional | anaraanarabang | manaramanarabang | |

From Proto-Turkic *ana.

ana

  1. mother, mom
    Synonyms: abay, anay, nene

Inherited from Arabic أَنَا (ʔanā).

ana m sg or f sg

  1. I (first-person singular subject pronoun)

Cypriot Arabic personal pronouns

| | singular | plural | | | | ----------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------ | ------------------------------------------------------------------------ | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | | 1st person | ana | naxni | | | 2nd person | m | int | intu | | f | inti | | | | 3rd person | m | uo, o1 | innen, enne1 | | f | ie, e1 | | |

1Used as a copula.

ana

  1. (archaic) alternative form of ona

Ultimately from Proto-Turkic *ana.

Compare Bonan aane, Karakhanid اَنا (ana), Uyghur ئانا (ana), Western Yugur ana, Turkish ana.

ana

  1. mom, mama
    Chi matei anane bayasigvasenu, anachi tade baer lie ogine.
    No matter how much you make your mother happy, she will not give you money.

Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish آنا (ana), from Proto-Turkic *ana.[1] Compare Turkish ana, anne; Azerbaijani ana. [2]

ana (not comparable)

  1. native
    ana dil ― native language

ana (definite accusative anayı, plural analar)

  1. mother
    Synonym: (informal) mamu

Declension of ana

| | singular (tekil) | plural (çoğul) | | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------- | --------- | | nominative (yalın) | ana | analar | | definite accusative (belirtme) | anayı | anaları | | dative (yönelme) | anaya | analara | | locative (bulunma) | anada | analarda | | ablative (çıkma) | anadan | analardan | | genitive (tamlayan) | ananın | anaların |

  1. ^ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “ana”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
  2. ^ András Rajki, A Concise Gagauz Dictionary with etymologies and Turkish, Azerbaijani, Crimean Tatar and Turkmen cognates, 2007

Inherited from Proto-Berber.

ana m or f

  1. (interrogative) where
    Ana a ixeddem? ― Where does he work?

ana

  1. romanization of 𐌰𐌽𐌰

From Proto-Polynesian *qana.[1] Cognates include Māori ana and Samoan ana.

ana

  1. cave, cavern

From Proto-Polynesian *haŋa (“span”),[2] from Proto-Oceanic *saŋa-,[3] from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *zaŋan (“handspan”). Cognates include Samoan aga and Tongan hanga.

ana

  1. measurement
  2. dimension
  3. pattern, design
  4. model, standard
  5. meter, gauge
  6. assessment

ana(transitive)

  1. to measure
  2. to survey
  3. to assess
  1. ^ Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “QANA.1”, in “POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 50, number 2, pages 551–9
  2. ^ Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “HAGA.1”, in “POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 50, number 2, pages 551–9
  3. ^ M. Ross, A. Pawley, M. Osmond, editors (2016), The Lexicon of Proto-Oceanic‎[1], volumes 5: People: Body and Mind, Australian National University, →ISBN, pages 555–6

From Proto-Philippine *anák, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *anak, from Proto-Austronesian *aNak.

anâ

  1. child; offspring

ana (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative anaði, supine anað)

  1. to rush on, barge into

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Borrowed from Arabic أَنَا (ʔanā).

ana

  1. (colloquial) synonym of saya
  2. (colloquial) synonym of aku

From Old Irish anai m pl (“wealth, riches, prosperity”).

ana m (genitive singular **ana)

  1. (literary) wealth, prosperity

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

ana f (genitive singular **ana, nominative plural anaí)

  1. spell of fine weather

Mutated forms of ana

radical eclipsis with _h_-prothesis with _t_-prothesis
ana n-ana hana t-ana

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

ana

  1. (medicine) ana (in equal quantities)

ana

  1. Rōmaji transcription of あな
  2. Rōmaji transcription of アナ

ana

  1. romanization of ꦲꦤ

From Arabic أَنَا (ʔanā).

ana

  1. I, me (first-person singular pronoun)

Ultimately from Proto-Austronesian *aNak. Cognate with Indonesian anak, etc.

ana

  1. child

From Proto-Cariban *apina. Compare Ye'kwana nña, Trió anja, Wayana emna, Waiwai amna.

ana

  1. we (exclusive)

Ultimately from Proto-Austronesian *aNak. Cognate with Indonesian anak, etc.

ana

  1. child (one's direct descendant by birth, regardless of age; a son or daughter).

anà f sg

  1. nominative/instrumental feminine singular of anas

anà

  1. there (it) is

Borrowed from Arabic أَنَا (ʔanā).

ana (Jawi spelling انا)

  1. I (personal pronoun)
  2. me (direct object of a verb)
  3. me (object of a preposition)
  4. me (indirect object of a verb)
  5. my (belonging to me)

Malay personal pronouns

| | Singular | Plural | | | ----------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | 1st person | saya1 aku3 | kita4 kami2 & 5 kita orang3 & 5 | | 2nd person | awak1 anda2 awda8 (eng)kau3 kamu3 | (2nd person) + semua6 kalian2 (eng)kau orang3 | | 3rd person | dia ia beliau7 -nya2 | mereka2 dia orang3 |

1 Polite.
2 Formal.
3 Informal.
4 Includes the listener (inclusive).
5 Excludes the listener (exclusive).
6 Formality depends on the second person pronoun used.
7 Honorific.
8 Formal (Brunei).

Notes:

See each entry for more information.

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

ana

  1. his, her of more than one thing

A possessive determiner which must be followed by a noun, unlike āna and ōna. This is the neutral or informal form and is not governed by the a and o categories. It cannot be stressed, in which case either āna or ōna must be used, depending on the category of the noun.

From Proto-Polynesian *qana. Cognate to Samoan ana.

ana

  1. cave

ana

  1. guest
    Synonyms: banto, ma'ana

From a- +‎ na. Cognates include Minica Huitoto ana and Nüpode Huitoto ana.

ana

  1. down, below

North Moluccan Malay

[edit]

From Malay anak.

ana

  1. child (one's direct descendant)
  2. child, kid (a minor)
    Synonym: ana kacíl
  3. (when used with place name) person/people, gang; kids
  4. learner; student (often in the plural 'ana-ana')
  5. (by extension, in certain compounds) peer, mate
    Yang nga bicara tadi tu nga pe ana kalás to?
    The one you were talking to earlier was your classmate?

ana (Arabic spelling ئانا)

  1. alternative form of niha (“now”)

āna

  1. sole
  2. alone
    • c. 992, Ælfric, "St. Benedict, Abbot"
      Gang nū tō mynstre ġif þū mæġe, and mē āna forlǣt.
      Now go to the monastery if you can, and leave me alone.
    • c. 992, Ælfric, "On the Beginning of Creation"
      Þa cwæð God, "Nis na gedafenlic þæt þes man āna beo, and næbbe nænne fultum; ac uton gewyrcan him gemacan, him to fultume and to frofre."
      Then said God, "It is not fitting that this man be alone, and have no help; now let us make him a mate for help and comfort."
    • c. 992, Ælfric, "On the Beginning of Creation"
      He is Ealdor and Scyppend ealra gódnyssa and sibbe, and he foresende his acennednysse ungewunelice sibbe, forðan ðe næfre næs swilc sibb ær þam fyrste on middangearde, swilc swa wæs on his gebyrde-tide, swa þæt eall middangeard wæs anes mannes rice underðeod, and eal mennisc him ānum cynelic gafol ageaf.
      He is Prince and Author of all things good and of peace, and he sent before his birth unwonted peace, for never was there such peace before that period in the world, as there was at the time of his birth; so that all the world was subjected to the empire of one man, and all mankind paid royal tribute to him alone.
  3. by itself
  4. only

Declension of āna — Weak only

Equivalent to a feminine form of ano (“grandfather”), related to Proto-Germanic *anô, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂en-. Akin to Latin anus (“old woman”), Old Prussian ane (“grandmother”), etc.

ana f

  1. grandmother

From Proto-West Germanic *an, from Proto-Germanic *ana, whence also Old English on, Old Norse á.

ana

  1. at
  2. on

ana

  1. onwards

Alternative scripts

ana

  1. imperative active second-person singular of anati (“to breathe”)

From Sanskrit अनस् (ánas).

ana n[1]

  1. cart[1]

  2. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Childers, Robert Caesar, Dictionary of the Päli language, London: Trübner & Company, 1875, page 31.

ana

  1. Introduces the irrealis mood.

ana

  1. if

Cognate with Turkish ana (“mother”).

ana (3rd person possessive anası, plural analar)

  1. (dated) girl
    Synonym: qız
    • 2004, “Men yıraxdan gelğende”, 阿布都·卡德尔 [Abdu Qadır] (lyrics), 阿布都·卡德尔 [Abdu Qadır] (music)‎[11]performed by 伊利亚斯·铁克 [İlyas Teck]:
  2. daughter

Uncertain. Possibly from Proto-Slavic *ona, specifically borrowed from Russian она́ (oná). Likely unrelated to Lithuanian anas.

ana (masculine counterpart ons)

  1. third-person feminine singular pronoun: she

ana (not comparable)

  1. alternative form of an a'

Inherited from Proto-Bantu *bàjánà.

ana class 2

  1. plural of mwana

ana

  1. inflection of -wa na:
    1. third-person singular present affirmative
    2. m-wa class subject inflected singular present affirmative

From German ahnen.

ana (present anar, preterite anade, supine anat, imperative **ana)

  1. to have a feeling that something will happen, has happened or is in a certain way, without really having firm reason for the belief
    Synonyms: känna på sig, ha på känn
    Jag anar att någon kommer att känna igen honom trots förklädnaden.
    I have a feeling that someone will recognize him despite the disguise.
  2. to see, make out, discern (with difficulty)
    Jag tror jag anar en katt i den busken.
    I think I can see a cat in that bush.

ana c

  1. (genealogy) ancestor, forefather
    Synonym: förfader

ana (subject clitic i, possessive prefix na or nga, Jawi أن)

  1. (human groups) third-person plural pronoun, they
  2. (polite, unknown gender) third-person singular pronoun, he, she, the singular they
    ginado se ana ― ask them (literally, “ask he/she”)
  3. preceding a name, indicates a family or group of people
    ana Nutfah ― Nutfah and them (family, the people she's with, etc.)

Historically and poetically, ana may collocate with the subject clitic yo as well.

Ternate personal pronouns

| | | independent | subject proclitic | possessive | | | | -------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------- | | informal | formal | | | | | | singular | 1st person | ngori | fangarem, fajaruf | to | ri | | 2nd person | ngana | ngoni, jou ngoni | no | ni | | | 3rd person | unam, minaf | | om, mof, inh | im, mif, manh | | | plural | 1st person inclusive | ngone | | fo | na, nga | | 1st person exclusive | ngomi | fangare ngomim, fajaru ngomif, fara ngomi1 | mi | mi, mia | | | 2nd person | ngoni | | ni | na, nia | | | 3rd person | anah, enanh | | ih, nh, yoh, †, yanh, † | nah, ngah, manh | |

From Proto-Polynesian *qana. Cognates include Hawaiian ana and Samoan ana.

ana

  1. cave, den
  2. hold (of a ship)

ana

  1. (intransitive, + i) to live, dwell (in caves)

From Proto-Polynesian *qa-na. Cognates include Hawaiian āna and Samoan āna.

a ana

  1. (alienable) his, hers

ana

  1. (alienable) his, her

Tooro numbers (edit)

| | 400[a], [b] | | | | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | -- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | [a], [b] ← 30 | 40 | 50 → [a], [b] | | | 4[a], [b] | | | | Cardinal: makumi ana, ana | | |

Sense 2 is a clipping of makumi ana (“forty”).

ana

  1. class 6 form of -na (“four”)
  2. forty

ana

  1. dative singular of an

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish آننه, انا, from Proto-Turkic *ana (“mother”), *eńe (“mother”). Cognate with Old Turkic 𐰣𐰀 (ana).

ana (definite accusative anayı, plural analar)

  1. mother
    Synonym: anne
    Bak görürsün! Seni anama şikâyet edeceğim.
    You will see! I will tell you to my mother.

ana

  1. main
    Ana sigorta atınca bütün ev karanlıkta kaldı.
    When the main fuse blew, the whole house was left in the dark.
  2. native
    Ana dilim Türkçedir.
    My native language is Turkish.
  3. fundamental

From Old High German unti (“and”), from Proto-Germanic *andi (“and”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂énti. Cognates include German und.

ana

  1. and

ana

  1. (interrogative) where is, how are

This word functions as a phrase, so no verb is needed.

ana

  1. alternative form of on
    • 1867, CONGRATULATORY ADDRESS IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 116, lines 6-8:
      Na oure gladès ana whilke we dellt wi' mattoke, an zing t'oure caulès wi plou,
      In our valleys where we were digging with the spade, or as we whistled to our horses in the plough,

From à- (“nominalizing prefix”) +‎ ná (“to spend”), literally “that which time has already been spent on”.

àná

  1. yesterday
  2. (euphemistic) deceased, late
    Synonym: olóògbé

Cognate with Igala àna

àna or ànà

  1. in-law
    Synonym: (Oǹdó) àlè

Borrowed from Turkish ana (“mother”).

ana

  1. mam
  2. mother