mena

See also: Mena, MENA, mená, menà, menâ, měna, me'na, and мена

Catalan

Etymology 1

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈmɛ.nə]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ˈmə.nə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈme.na]

Noun

mena f (plural menes)

1. sort, kind, type

Synonyms

• classe, espècie, tipus

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

mena

Further reading

• “mena” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “mena”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “mena” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “mena” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

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French

Verb

mena

1. third-person singular past historic of mener

Anagrams

• amen

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Gothic

Romanization

mēna

1. Romanization of 𐌼𐌴𐌽𐌰

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Italian

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈme.na/, /ˈmɛ.na/
• Rhymes: -ena, -ɛna
• Hyphenation: mé‧na, mè‧na

Noun

mena f (plural mene)

1. plot, conspiracy

   Synonyms: complotto, trama, intrigo, macchinazione

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈme.na/
• Rhymes: -ena
• Hyphenation: mé‧na

Verb

mena

1. inflection of menare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Anagrams

• -mane, amen

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Kikuyu

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɛna/

Verb

mena (infinitive kũmena)

1. to dislike, to despise

Antonyms

• kwenda

Derived terms

(Nouns)

• mũmeni class 1

(Proverbs)

• mũmenwo arutagwo mbakĩ iniũrũ

Related terms

(Nouns)

• rũmena class 11

See also

• gũthũũra

References

• Armstrong, Lilias E. (1940). The Phonetic and Tonal Structure of Kikuyu, p. 362. Rep. 1967. (Also in 2018 by Routledge).

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Lithuanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈmʲæ̌ːn̪ɐ]

Verb

mẽna

1. third-person singular present of miñti
2. third-person plural present of miñti

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Malagasy

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Adjective

mena

1. red
2. (dialectal, Bara, figuratively) angry

See also

Colors in Malagasy · volo (layout · text)

fotsy	volombatolalaka ; vatolalaka	mainty ; ngaly
mena ; horàka; menapina ; jaky ; dorehitra	haboka ; heza; fiana ; manja ; lañary	vony ; hasaka
	maitso
		manga
volomparasy ; katso ; lalena; angana	volomparasy ; katso ; lalena	mavokely

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Murui Huitoto

Murui Huitoto cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : mena     Adverbial : menakaño

Etymology

From Proto-Witotoan *menai, from .

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈmɛ.na]

Numeral

mena

1. two

Noun

mena

1. pair

References

• Katarzyna Izabela Wojtylak (2017) A grammar of Murui (Bue): a Witotoan language of Northwest Amazonia.‎^[1], Townsville: James Cook University press (PhD thesis)

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Occitan

Pronunciation

• Audio (Languedocien):

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Noun

mena f (plural menas)

1. type, sort, kind

   Synonyms: sòrta, espècia

2. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

Further reading

• Joan de Cantalausa (2006) Diccionari general occitan a partir dels parlars lengadocians‎^[2], 2 edition, →ISBN, page 638.

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Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• (Ijekavian): mijéna

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *měna.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /měːna/
• Hyphenation: me‧na

Noun

ména f (Cyrillic spelling ме́на)

1. change
2. phase
3. lunation

Declension

Declension of mena

	singular	plural
nominative	ména	mene
genitive	mene	mȇnā
dative	meni	menama
accusative	menu	mene
vocative	meno	mene
locative	meni	menama
instrumental	menom	menama

Synonyms

• (change): prȍmena, ȉzmena

References

• “mena” in Hrvatski jezični portal

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Slovak

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɛna/

Noun

mena f (genitive singular meny, nominative plural meny, genitive plural mien, declension pattern of žena)

1. currency (finance)

Declension

Declension of mena

	singular	plural
nominative	mena	meny
genitive	meny	mien
dative	mene	menám
accusative	menu	meny
locative	mene	menách
instrumental	menou	menami

Derived terms

• menový

Further reading

• “mena”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024

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Sotho

Verb

mena

1. to fold

   Synonym: phutha

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Spanish

Etymology 1

Noun

mena f (plural menas)

1. ore

Etymology 2

Noun

mena m or f (plural menas)

1. Alternative letter-case form of MENA

Further reading

• “mena”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

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Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish mena, from Middle Low German mēnen, meinen (compare Icelandic meina, Danish mene), from Old Saxon mēnian, from Proto-Germanic *mainijaną, from Proto-Indo-European *mein-.

Pronunciation

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Verb

mena (present menar, preterite menade, supine menat, imperative mena)

1. to mean; to convey, or to want to convey
2. to mean; to be of the opinion that or to have as one's conviction
3. to mean; to have as one's intention

Conjugation

Conjugation of mena (weak)

	Active		Passive
Infinitive	mena		menas
Supine	menat		menats
Imperative	mena		—
Imper. plural1	menen		—
	Present	Past	Present	Past
Indicative	menar	menade	menas	menades
Ind. plural1	mena	menade	menas	menades
Subjunctive2	mene	menade	menes	menades
	Participles
Present participle	menande
Past participle	menad
1 Archaic. 2 Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs.

Related terms

• mening