name
Meaning 1
A female given name from Japanese.
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Standard Lemma guide
kana
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Sound
Pronunciation
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/ˈkɑːnə/
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[ˈkhɑːnə]
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rhymes with -ɑːnə
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CMU ARPABET: K AE1 N AH0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
name
Meaning 2
A surname.
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name
Meaning 3
A gewog of Dagana District, Bhutan.
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noun
Meaning 4
The hiragana and katakana syllabaries. These are made up of characters that represent individual syllables, which are used to write Japanese words and particles. Kana are derived from kanji.
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noun
Meaning 5
A hiragana or katakana character.
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verb
Meaning 6
Alternative form of kena.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Singapore, Singlish, alt-of, alternative, invariable
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History
Etymology
Borrowed from Japanese 香菜 (Kana).
Two main origins: * Borrowed from Czech Káňa, a variant of Kan. * Borrowed from Tamil கனா (kaṉā); this surname is predominantly found in Tamil Nadu.
Borrowed from Dzongkha བཀར་ན་ (bkar na).
Borrowed from Japanese 仮名(かな) (kana, “phonetic character”, literally “borrowed character”, from the way that kana were originally Chinese characters "borrowed" for their phonetic values).
Across languages
Translations
29 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: كَانَا (kānā) — Japanese syllabaries
- Belarusian: ка́на (kána) — Japanese syllabaries
- Bulgarian: ка́на (kána) — Japanese syllabaries
- Chinese Mandarin: 假名 (jiǎmíng) — Japanese syllabaries
- Czech: kana — Japanese syllabaries
- Finnish: kana — Japanese syllabaries
- French: kana — Japanese syllabaries
- German: Kana — Japanese syllabaries
- Greek: κάνα (kána) — Japanese syllabaries
- Hebrew: קאנה (kána) — Japanese syllabaries
- Hindi: काना (kānā) — Japanese syllabaries
- Japanese: 仮名 (kana) — Japanese syllabaries
- Korean: 가나 (gana) — Japanese syllabaries
- Macedonian: ка́на (kána) — Japanese syllabaries
- Malay: kana — Japanese syllabaries
- Marathi: काना (kānā) — Japanese syllabaries
- Mongolian: кана (kana) — Japanese syllabaries
- Persian: کانا (kânâ) — Japanese syllabaries
- Polish: kana — Japanese syllabaries
- Portuguese: kana — Japanese syllabaries
- Russian: ка́на (kána) — Japanese syllabaries
- Serbo-Croatian: кана — Japanese syllabaries
- Serbo-Croatian: kana — Japanese syllabaries
- Spanish: kana — Japanese syllabaries
- Tajik: кана (kana) — Japanese syllabaries
- Thai: คะนะ (ká-ná) — Japanese syllabaries
- Ukrainian: ка́на (kána) — Japanese syllabaries
- Urdu: کانا (kānā) — Japanese syllabaries
- Vietnamese: kana — Japanese syllabaries