name
Meaning 1
A surname from Polish.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
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Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
kuna
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Sound
Pronunciation
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rhymes with -uːnə
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/ˈkuːnə/
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CMU ARPABET: K Y UW1 N AH0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
name
Meaning 2
Alternative spelling of Cuna.
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Usage: alt-of, alternative
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noun
Meaning 3
The former (until 2023) currency of Croatia, divided into 100 lipa.
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noun
Meaning 4
Alternative spelling of Cuna.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, alternative
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History
Etymology
* As a Polish, Czech, Slovak, Serbo-Croatian/Bosnian, Hungarian and Jewish surname, from Kuna, from kuna (“marten”), nickname for a quick-tempered or aggressive person. * Also as a Czech surname, from the personal name Kuna, a pet form of Kunrat, medieval form of Konrad.
Borrowed from Serbo-Croatian kúna/ку́на.
Across languages
Translations
26 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: كُونَا (kūnā) — former currency of Croatia
- Belarusian: ку́на (kúna) — former currency of Croatia
- Bulgarian: ку́на (kúna) — former currency of Croatia
- Chinese Mandarin: 庫納 /库纳 (kùnà) — former currency of Croatia
- Czech: kuna — former currency of Croatia
- Finnish: kuna — former currency of Croatia
- German: Kuna — former currency of Croatia
- Greek: κούνα (koúna) — former currency of Croatia
- Hebrew: קונה — former currency of Croatia
- Hindi: कुना (kunā) — former currency of Croatia
- Indonesian: kuna — former currency of Croatia
- Italian: kuna — former currency of Croatia
- Japanese: クーナ (kūna) — former currency of Croatia
- Korean: 쿠나 (kuna) — former currency of Croatia
- Macedonian: ку́на (kúna) — former currency of Croatia
- Persian: کونا (kunâ) — former currency of Croatia
- Polish: kuna — former currency of Croatia
- Portuguese: kuna — former currency of Croatia
- Russian: ку́на (kúna) — former currency of Croatia
- Serbo-Croatian: ку́на — former currency of Croatia
- Serbo-Croatian: kúna — former currency of Croatia
- Slovak: kuna — former currency of Croatia
- Slovene: kuna — former currency of Croatia
- Spanish: kuna — former currency of Croatia
- Turkish: kunası — former currency of Croatia
- Ukrainian: ку́на (kúna) — former currency of Croatia