mena

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• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /ˈmə.nə/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /ˈmɛ.nə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈme.na/

mena f (plural menes)

1. sort, kind, type

   Synonyms: classe, espècie, tipus

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

mena

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

• “mena” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “mena”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
• “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.

mena

1. third-person singular past historic of mener

• amen

mēna

1. Romanization of 𐌼𐌴𐌽𐌰

• IPA^(key): /méː.nàː/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [méː.nàː]

mēnā̀ f (possessed form mēnàr̃)

1. dama gazelle

• IPA^(key): /ˈme.na/, /ˈmɛ.na/[1]
• Rhymes: -ena, -ɛna
• Hyphenation: mé‧na, mè‧na

mena f (plural mene)

1. plot, conspiracy

   Synonyms: complotto, trama, intrigo, macchinazione

• IPA^(key): /ˈme.na/[1]
• Rhymes: -ena
• Hyphenation: mé‧na

mena

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

• -mane, amen

• IPA^(key): /mɛna/

mena (infinitive kũmena)

1. to dislike, to despise

• kwenda[1]

(Nouns)

• mũmeni class 1

(Proverbs)

• mũmenwo arutagwo mbakĩ iniũrũ

(Nouns)

• rũmena class 11

• gũthũũra

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

• IPA^(key): [ˈmʲæ̌ːn̪ɐ]

mẽna

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

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mena

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

Cognates include Minica Huitoto mena and Nüpode Huitoto mena.

• IPA^(key): [ˈmɛna]
• Hyphenation: me‧na

mena

1. two

• Shirley Burtch (1983) Diccionario Huitoto Murui (Tomo I) (Linguistica Peruana No. 20)‎ (in Spanish), Yarinacocha, Peru: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, page 176
• Katarzyna Izabela Wojtylak (2017) A grammar of Murui (Bue): a Witotoan language of Northwest Amazonia.‎, Townsville: James Cook University press (PhD thesis), page 148

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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}}.

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

mena

1. to mean

mēna

1. (transitive with accusative) to harm
2. to hinder, prevent
3. to forbid, prohibit

• (Ijekavian): mijéna

From Proto-Slavic *měna.

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

ména f (Cyrillic spelling ме́на)

1. change
2. phase
3. lunation

• (change): prȍmena, ȉzmena

• “mena” in Hrvatski jezični portal

• IPA^(key): [ˈmena]

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

1. currency (finance)

• menový

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

mena n

1. genitive singular of meno

• mena in Slovak dictionaries at slovnik.juls.savba.sk

mena

1. to fold

   Synonym: phutha

• IPA^(key): /ˈmena/ [ˈme.na]
• Rhymes: -ena
• Syllabification: me‧na

mena f (plural menas)

1. ore

mena m or f by sense (plural menas)

1. Alternative letter-case form of MENA

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

mena

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

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

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-.

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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

• mening