adj
Meaning 1
Of a rich reddish-brown colour.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
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Standard Lemma guide
henna
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Pronunciation
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/hɛnə/
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CMU ARPABET: HH EH1 N AH0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
A shrub, Lawsonia inermis, having fragrant reddish flowers.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable
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noun
Meaning 3
A flower of this plant.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 4
A reddish plant substance, prepared from the dried leaves of this plant, used for temporary tattoos and hair coloring. Hair colorings range from bright red to earth brown to near black.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 5
A rich reddish-brown colour.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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verb
Meaning 6
To dye or tattoo with henna.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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noun
Meaning 7
a reddish brown dye used especially on hair
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: hair dye, hair coloring
verb
Meaning 8
apply henna to one's hair
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- She hennas her hair every month
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: tint, tinct, tinge, touch
History
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic حِنَّاء (ḥinnāʔ), the name of the tree used to make the dye, probably from Middle Persian [script needed] (*hannāy-, “to smear, anoint”).
Across languages
Translations
94 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: حِنَّاء (ḥinnāʔ) — shrub
- Armenian: հինա (hina) — shrub
- Assamese: জেতুকা (zetuka) — shrub
- Assamese: জেতুকা গছ (zetuka gos) — shrub
- Azerbaijani: xına — shrub
- Bengali: মেহেদী (mehedi) — shrub
- Bulgarian: къна (kǎna) — shrub
- Catalan: alquena — shrub
- Chinese Cantonese: 指甲花 (zi2 gaap3 faa1) — shrub
- Chinese Mandarin: 散沫花 (sǎnmòhuā) — shrub
- Chinese Mandarin: 指甲花 (zhǐjiahuā) — shrub
- Dargwa: хина (ꭓina) — shrub
- Finnish: hennapensas — shrub
- French: henné — shrub
- German: Henna — shrub
- Greek: χένα (chéna) — shrub
- Ancient Greek: κύπρος (kúpros) — shrub
- Hausa: gwarzo — shrub
- Hebrew: כופר (kófer) — shrub
- Italian: alcanna — shrub
- Italian: henné — shrub
- Kannada: ಗೋರಂಟಿ (gōraṇṭi) — shrub
- Middle English: cipre — shrub
- Muyang: nele — shrub
- Persian: حنا (hanâ) — shrub
- Polish: henna — shrub
- Polish: lawsonia — shrub
- Portuguese: hena — shrub
- Punjabi: ਮਹਿੰਦੀ (mahindī) — shrub
- Russian: хна (xna) — shrub
- Spanish: alheña — shrub
- Tamil: மருதாணி (marutāṇi) — shrub
- Turkish: kına ağacı — shrub
- Ukrainian: хна (xna) — shrub
- Urdu: مَہَنْدی (mahandī) — shrub
- Arabic: حِنَّاء (ḥinnāʔ) — dye
- Armenian: հինա (hina) — dye
- Assamese: জেতুকা (zetuka) — dye
- Azerbaijani: xına — dye
- Azerbaijani: həna — dye
- Bengali: মেহেদী (mehedi) — dye
- Bulgarian: къна (kǎna) — dye
- Catalan: alquena — dye
- Catalan: henna — dye
- Ngazidja Comorian: yina — dye
- Dargwa: хина (ꭓina) — dye
- Dutch: henna — dye
- Finnish: henna — dye
- French: henné — dye
- German: Henna — dye
- Greek: χένα (chéna) — dye
- Ancient Greek: κύπρος (kúpros) — dye
- Hawaiian: menekikā — dye
- Hebrew: חִינָה (ḥína) — dye
- Hindi: मेंहदी (mẽhdī) — dye
- Hindi: मेहंदी (mehandī) — dye
- Hindi: हिना (hinā) — dye
- Hindi: हीना (hīnā) — dye
- Interlingua: henna — dye
- Italian: henné — dye
- Japanese: ヘンナ染料 (hennasenryō) — dye
- Kannada: ಗೋರಂಟಿ (gōraṇṭi) — dye
- Kazakh: қына (qyna) — dye
- Central Kurdish: خەنە (xene) — dye
- Macedonian: кана (kana) — dye
- Malay: inai — dye
- Māori: hena — dye
- Persian: حنا (hanâ) — dye
- Polish: henna — dye
- Portuguese: hena — dye
- Punjabi: ਮਹਿੰਦੀ (mahindī) — dye
- Punjabi: ਹਿਨਾ (hinā) — dye
- Romanian: henna — dye
- Romanian: cana — dye
- Russian: хна (xna) — dye
- Serbo-Croatian: кана — dye
- Serbo-Croatian: kana — dye
- Spanish: alheña — dye
- Spanish: henna — dye
- Spanish: hena — dye
- Sylheti: ꠝꠘ꠆ꠖꠤ (mondi) — dye
- Tamil: மருதாணி (marutāṇi) — dye
- Turkish: kına — dye
- Ugaritic: 𐎋𐎔𐎗 (kpr) — dye
- Ukrainian: хна (xna) — dye
- Urdu: مینہدی (meṅhdī) — dye
- Urdu: حنا (hinā) — dye
- Yoruba: làálì — dye
- Finnish: henna — colour
- German: Henna — colour
- Indonesian: gelam — colour
- Polish: henna — colour
- Russian: хна (xna) — colour
- Finnish: hennata — to dye or tattoo with henna