nona

See also: Nona, nóna, ñoña, nöna, nona-, and ǃnona

Ambonese Malay

Etymology

From Portuguese dona (“lady”).

Noun

nona

1. a young lady

References

• D. Takaria, C. Pieter (1998) Kamus Bahasa Melayu Ambon-Indonesia‎, Pusat Pembinaan dan Pengembangan Bahasa

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin nōna (“ninth [hour]”). The infantile meaning "sleep" might be derived from the sense of "siesta, afternoon nap" or might be purely onomatopoeic.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈnɔ.nə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈnɔ.na]

Noun

nona f (plural nones)

1. (historical) nones
2. (childish) sleep

   No tinc nona! ― I'm not sleepy!

3. (historical, Valencia) tithe, tax
4. (Valencia) Ononis aragonensis, a species of restharrow native to Iberia.

   Synonym: gavó aragonès

Derived terms

• fer nona
• noneta

Further reading

• “nona”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “nona” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “nona” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Cimbrian

Alternative forms

• nóona

Etymology

From Venetian nona, from Late Latin nonna (“nun”).

Noun

nona f

1. (Luserna) grandmother

   Synonym: èna

Coordinate terms

• nono

References

• Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Luserna / Lusérn: Le nostre parole / Ünsarne börtar / Unsere Wörter [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

Hawaiian

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈno.na/, [ˈno.nə]

Pronoun

nona

1. for him/her/it; his, hers, its; whose, for whom

Usage notes

• Applied to o-type possessions.

Related terms

• kona

Indonesian

Etymology

From Ambonese Malay nona or Malay nona (“young lady”), from Portuguese dona (“lady”) likely via Javanese.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈnona]
• Hyphenation: no‧na

Noun

nona

1. miss (young unmarried woman)

Further reading

• “nona” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Italian

Adjective

nona

1. feminine singular of nono

Anagrams

• anno, nano, nano-, ànno

Ladino

Etymology

From Late Latin nonna.

Noun

nona f (Latin spelling)

1. grandmother

   Synonyms: granmama, vava, avuela

   Coordinate term: (gender) nono

Latin

Numeral

nōna

1. feminine of nōnus

Noun

nōna f sg (genitive nōnae); first declension

1. (Ecclesiastical Latin) nones (canonical hour)

Declension

First-declension noun, singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	nōna
Genitive	nōnae
Dative	nōnae
Accusative	nōnam
Ablative	nōnā
Vocative	nōna

References

• “nona”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “nona”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• nona in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• nona in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) on the day after, which was September 5th: postridie qui fuit dies Non. Sept. (Nonarum Septembrium) (Att. 4. 1. 5)
    

Malay

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈnona/ [ˈno.na]

Etymology 1

From Portuguese dona (“lady”) likely via Javanese. Doublet of nonya and nyonya.

Noun

nona (Jawi spelling نونا, plural nona-nona, informal 1st possessive nonaku, 2nd possessive nonamu, 3rd possessive nonanya)

1. miss, lady (young unmarried woman)

   Synonym: cik

Alternative forms

• nonah
• nyonya

Descendants

• Ambonese Malay: nona
• Indonesian: nona

Etymology 2

From English annona (“custard apple”).

Noun

nona (Jawi spelling نونا, plural nona-nona, informal 1st possessive nonaku, 2nd possessive nonamu, 3rd possessive nonanya)

1. custard apple or sugar apple (Annona squamosa)

   Synonyms: buah nona, serikaya

2. glue berry or bird lime tree (Cordia dichotoma)

   Synonyms: nona burung, petekat, pelekat, kendal, sekendal, sekendai

Descendants

• Indonesian: nona

References

• Wilkinson, Richard James (1901) “نونه nonah”, in A Malay-English dictionary, Hong Kong: Kelly & Walsh limited, page 674
• Wilkinson, Richard James (1932) “nona”, in A Malay-English dictionary (romanised), volume II, Mytilene, Greece: Salavopoulos & Kinderlis, page 176
• Dalgado, Sebastião Rodolfo (1936) Xavier, Anthony, transl., Portuguese Vocables in Asiatic Languages‎, Baroda: Oriental Institute, pages 136-8

Further reading

• “nona” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

Phuthi

Verb

-nona

1. to become fat

Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈnõ.nɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈnõ.nɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈno.na/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈno.nɐ/

• Rhymes: -onɐ
• Hyphenation: no‧na

Etymology 1

Learned borrowing from Latin nōna, feminine of nōnus (“ninth”).

Alternative forms

• 9.ª

Adjective

nona

1. feminine singular of nono

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Venetian nona (“grandmother”).

Noun

nona f (plural nonas)

1. (familiar, South Brazil, São Paulo) grandmother

   Synonyms: avó, vó

Etymology 3

From Late Latin nonna (“nun”).

Noun

nona f (plural nonas)

1. (Christianity) nun

   Synonyms: freira, irmã

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from Venetian nona. Ultimately borrowed from Medieval Latin nonna.

Noun

nona f (Cyrillic spelling нона)

1. (Croatia, Chakavian) grandmother
2. (Croatia, Chakavian) grandma, granny
3. (Croatia, Chakavian) old woman

Spanish

Adjective

nona f

1. feminine singular of nono

Swazi

Verb

-nona

1. to be fat

Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Venda

Verb

nona

1. to be fat

Venetian

Etymology

From Late Latin nonna. Cognate with Italian nonna.

Noun

nona f (plural none)

1. grandmother

Coordinate terms

• nono

Descendants

• → Cimbrian: nona, nóona
• → Chakavian Serbo-Croatian: nona
• → Portuguese: nona