はな

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of はな – see the following entries.

【花】1 [noun] a flower [noun] Short for 生け花 (ikebana): flower arrangement [noun] Short for 花札 (hanafuda): Japanese playing cards [noun] the best days of one's life [noun] the best thing [noun] essence Alternative spelling 華

【華】S [proper noun] a female given name [proper noun] a surname

【洟】H [noun] nasal mucus

【鼻】3 [noun] nose [noun] (elephant or elephant seal) trunk [pronoun] first-person personal male pronoun; I, me

(This term, はな (hana), is the hiragana spelling of the above terms.) For a list of all kanji read as はな, see Category:Japanese kanji read as はな.)

(The following entries are uncreated: 端, 英.)

Okinawan

Etymology 1

From Proto-Japonic *pana (“flower”).

Noun

はな (hana) 

1. 花: flower

Etymology 2

From Proto-Japonic *pana (“nose”).

Noun

はな (hana) 

1. 鼻: nose

Yonaguni

Etymology 1

From Proto-Japonic *pana (“nose”).

Pronunciation

• (Sonai) IPA^(key): [hàná] (tone class A)

Noun

はな (hana) 

1. 鼻: nose

   はな　かみ

   hana kami

   Blow your nose.

   Synonym: はなぶる (hanaburu)

Derived terms

• きばな (kibana, “a continuous wooden bridle to stick through a cow's nose”)
• はないてぃ (hanaiti, “breath through the nose”)
• はなく゚い (hana'ngui, “nasal sound”)
• はなでぃ (hanadi, “nosebleed”)
• はなぶてぃ (hanabuti, “snore”)
• はなぶる (hanaburu, “nose”)
• はなぶるぬつー (hanaburunutsū, “mucus”)
• はなみん (hanamin, “mucus, snot”)
• はなんき (hananki, “a cold”)
• はなんきかがい (hananki, “blowing a nose during a cold”)
• はなんむん (hananmun, “to wipe snot”)

 

Etymology 2

From Proto-Japonic *pana (“flower”).

Pronunciation

• (Sonai) IPA^(key): [hànà] (tone class B)

Noun

はな (hana) 

1. 花: flower

   うるむしってぃ　ないか゚しや　どぅゆ、　でぃく゚いか゚　きびさる　つーはな　あがはな　さがん

   urumushitti nai'ngashiya duyu, di'ngui'nga kibisaru tsūhana agahana sagan

   When spring comes, the easter lilies and Indian coral trees make the pretty white (flowers) and crimson flowers bloom.

2. (by extension) flowers for a Buddhist alter

   とぅぐぬ　はなや　からしや　ならぬんど

   tugunu hanaya karashiya naranundo

   I cannot let those flowers (for the Buddhist priest) die.

Derived terms

• いたはなうりしだり (itahanaurishidari, “towel to weave board flowers”)
• いちちんばな (ichichinbana, “four floral patterns”)
• だちんばな (dachinbana, “eight floral patterns”)
• ちぬはな (chinuhana, “flame”)
• ばたぬはな (batanuhana, “cotton flower”)
• はなうりしだり (hanaurishidari, “towel to weave flowers”)
• はなぐみ (hanagumi, “a multi-tiered serving of rice offered to a god or Buddha”)
• はなずみしだり (hanazumishidari, “towel to dry flowers”)
• はなひや (hanahiya, “flower warp controller”)
• まいぬはな (mainuhana, “flower of a rice plant”)

 

References

• Hōsei Daigaku Okinawa Bunka Kenkyūjo (法政大学沖縄文化研究所) (1987) “琉球の方言１１巻：八重山・与那国島 [Ryukyuan Dialects 11: Yonaguni-jima, Yaeyama]”, in Ryūkyū no Hōgen (琉球の方言), volume 11, →DOI, pages 01-359

• Yonaguni Hōgen Jiten Henshū I'inkai (与那国方言辞典編集委員会) (2021) どぅなんむぬい辞典 [Dunanmunui Dictionary], Yonaguni (与那国町): Yonaguni-chō Kyōiku I'inkai (与那国町教育委員会), page 257