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Kuna

Kuna

See also: kuna, kúna, kùna, kuña, -kuna, and kūną

English

Alternative forms

Noun

Kuna ‎(plural Kunas)

  1. An indigenous group of Panama and Colombia.

Translations

Proper noun

Kuna

  1. The language of the Kuna people.

Translations

Anagrams

kuna

kuna

See also: Kuna, kúna, kùna, kuña, -kuna, and kūną

English

Noun

kuna ‎(plural kunas)

  1. The currency of Croatia, divided into 100 lipa.

Translations

Anagrams

Baagandji

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Karnic *kuna, from Proto-Pama-Nyungan *kuna.

Noun

kuna

  1. excrement, faeces, ****

References

  • Barry Alpher, Proto-Pama-Nyungan etyma, in Australian Languages: Classification and the Comparative Method (2004; edited by Claire Bowern and Harold Kochl published in Amsterdam and Philadelphia by the John Benjamins Publishing Company)

Chuukese

Verb

kuna

  1. to see

Czech

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *kuna.

Noun

kuna f

  1. marten
  2. kuna (currency of Croatia)

Declension

Dieri

Etymology

From Proto-Karnic *kuna, from Proto-Pama-Nyungan *kuna.

Noun

kuna

  1. excrement, faeces, ****

References

  • Barry Alpher Proto-Pama-Nyungan etyma, in Australian Languages: Classification and the Comparative Method, edited by Claire Bowern and Harold Koch (Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2004)

Esperanto

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkuna/
  • Hyphenation: ku‧na

Adjective

kuna ‎(accusative singular kunan, plural kunaj, accusative plural kunajn)

  1. joint; combined

Finnish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkunɑ/
  • Hyphenation: ku‧na

Etymology 1

Pronoun

kuna

  1. (interrogative, archaic) Essive singular form of kuka.
  2. (indefinite, archaic) Essive singular form of kuka.

Etymology 2

Noun

kuna

  1. kuna (currency of Croatia)
Declension
Inflection of kuna (Kotus type 10/koira, no gradation)
nominative kuna kunat
genitive kunan kunien
partitive kunaa kunia
illative kunaan kuniin
singular plural
nominative kuna kunat
accusative nom. kuna kunat
gen. kunan
genitive kunan kunien
kunainrare
partitive kunaa kunia
inessive kunassa kunissa
elative kunasta kunista
illative kunaan kuniin
adessive kunalla kunilla
ablative kunalta kunilta
allative kunalle kunille
essive kunana kunina
translative kunaksi kuniksi
instructive — kunin
abessive kunatta kunitta
comitative — kunineen

Anagrams

French

Etymology

From Serbo-Croatian kuna

Noun

kuna m, f ‎(plural kunas)

  1. kuna (currency of Croatia)

Usage notes

  • Used as a masculine and a feminine noun interchangably

Hawaiian

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *tuna

Noun

kuna

  1. eel

Italian

Noun

kuna f ‎(plural kune)

  1. kuna (currency of Croatia)

Lingala

Adverb

kuna

  1. there

References

  • “kuna” in Ekolongonelo ya Lingala: an introductory course, page 25

Lower Sorbian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *kuna.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈkuna]

Noun

kuna f

  1. marten

Declension

Martuthunira

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kuna/

Etymology

From Proto-Ngayarda *kuna, from Proto-Pama-Nyungan *kuna.

Noun

kuna

  1. dung, poo, excrement, ****

References

  • Barry Alpher Proto-Pama-Nyungan etyma, in Australian Languages: Classification and the Comparative Method, edited by Claire Bowern and Harold Koch (Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2004)
  • Dench, Alan Charles. 1995. Martuthunira: A Language of the Pilbara Region of Western Australia. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. Series C-125.

Ngiyambaa

Etymology

From Proto-Central New South Wales *gunang, from Proto-Pama-Nyungan *kuna.

Noun

kuna

  1. excrement, faeces, ****

References

  • Barry Alpher Proto-Pama-Nyungan etyma, in Australian Languages: Classification and the Comparative Method, edited by Claire Bowern and Harold Koch (Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2004)

Pitjantjatjara

Noun

kuna

  1. excrement
  2. dung

Derived terms

Pitta-Pitta

Etymology

From Proto-Karnic *kuna, from Proto-Pama-Nyungan *kuna.

Noun

kuna

  1. dung, poo, excrement, ****

Verb

kuna

  1. (intransitive) To defecate.

Derived terms

  • kunakirra

References

  • Barry Alpher Proto-Pama-Nyungan etyma, in Australian Languages: Classification and the Comparative Method, edited by Claire Bowern and Harold Koch (Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2004)

Polish

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *kuna.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkuna/

Noun

kuna f

  1. marten
  2. kuna (currency of Croatia)

Declension

Derived terms

Portuguese

Noun

kuna m or f (in variation) (plural kunas)

  1. kuna (currency of Croatia)

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

  • (abbreviation, currency): kn

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *kuna.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kǔːna/
  • Hyphenation: ku‧na

Noun

kúna f ‎(Cyrillic spelling ку́на)

  1. marten
  2. kuna (currency of Croatia)

Declension

References

  • “kuna” in Hrvatski jezični portal

Slovak

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *kuna.

Noun

kuna f ‎(genitive singular kuny, nominative plural kuny)

  1. marten
  2. kuna (currency of Croatia)

Declension

Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *kuna.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkùːna/
  • Tonal orthography: kúna

Noun

kúna f ‎(genitive kúne, nominative plural kúne)

  1. marten
  2. kuna (currency of Croatia)

Declension

Swahili

Verb

kuna

  1. to scrape, to scratch
  2. to grate, to shred

Conjugation

Verb

kuna

Locative (class 17) of kuwana

  1. there is/are (in an distant/far location):

Related terms

Upper Sorbian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *kuna.

Noun

kuna f

  1. marten

Declension

Veps

Adverb

kuna

  1. to where, whither (interrogative)

Derived terms

References

  • Zajceva, N. G.; Mullonen, M. I. (2007), “куда”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary], Petrozavodsk: Periodika

Warlpiri

Etymology

From Proto-Ngayarda *kuna, from Proto-Pama-Nyungan *kuna.

Noun

kuna

  1. excrement, dung

References

  • Barry Alpher Proto-Pama-Nyungan etyma, in Australian Languages: Classification and the Comparative Method, edited by Claire Bowern and Harold Koch (Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2004)

Yukpa

Noun

kuna

  1. water

References

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