jena

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See also: Jena, jenă, Jéňa, and jèná

Esperanto

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Etymology

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jen +‎ -a

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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jena (accusative singular jenan, plural jenaj, accusative plural jenajn)

  1. following (which are about to follow (i.e., be presented) shortly)

Italian

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Noun

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jena f (plural jene)

  1. (obsolete) Alternative spelling of iena

Juba Arabic

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Etymology

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From Sudanese Arabic جنى (jana).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈɟena/, [ˈɟe.na]

Noun

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jena

  1. child
  2. baby

References

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  • Ian Smith, Morris Timothy Ama (1985) A Dictionary of Juba Arabic & English[1], 1st edition, Juba: The Committee of The Juba Cheshire Home and Centre for Handicapped Children, page 144

Latvian

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Piecas jenas (1942)

Noun

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jena f (4th declension)

  1. yen (monetary unit of Japan)
    piecas jenasfive yen
    papīra jenapaper yen (i.e., bills, banknotes)
    jenas kurssthe exchange rate of the yen
    grāmata maksā piecas jenasthe book costs five yen

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Lithuanian

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Noun

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jenà f (plural jènos) stress pattern 2

  1. yen (currency of Japan)

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Maltese

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Italian iena, from Latin hyaena, from Ancient Greek ὕαινα (húaina).

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Noun

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jena f (plural jeni)

  1. hyena

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Romanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French gêner.

Verb

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a jena (third-person singular present jenează, past participle jenat) 1st conj.

  1. to embarrass
  2. to discomfort, incommode
    Synonym: incomoda
  3. to inconvenience
  4. to hinder, impede, be in the way of
    Synonyms: împiedica, stânjeni, stingheri
  5. to disturb, trouble
    Synonym: deranja

Conjugation

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Slavomolisano

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Etymology

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From Serbo-Croatian jedan.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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jena f

  1. one

Upper Sorbian

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Upper Sorbian cardinal numbers
 <  0 1 2  > 
    Cardinal : jena
    Ordinal : prěni

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Numeral

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jena f (m jedyn, n jene)

  1. one

Ye'kwana

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Variant orthographies
ALIV jena
Brazilian standard fena
New Tribes jena

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Noun

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jena (possessed jenai)

  1. oar or paddle for rowing

References

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  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “jena”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana[2], Lyon
  • Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, pages 290, 390:hena -he:na -i 'oar' [] he:na - canoe paddle
  • Hall, Katherine (2007) “hēna”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series[3], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021