# nona
## Ambonese Malay
### Etymology

From Portuguese dona (“lady”).

### Noun

nona
* 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: (Central, Balearic) [ˈnɔ.nə]
* IPA: (Valencia) [ˈnɔ.na]

### Noun

nona f (plural nones)
* (historical) nones
* (childish) sleep
    No tinc nona! ― I'm not sleepy!
* (historical, Valencia) tithe, tax
* (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, 2025
* “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 Venetan nona, from Late Latin nonna (“nun”).

### Noun

nona f
* (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: /ˈno.na/, [ˈno.nə]

### Pronoun

nona
* 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: [ˈnona]
* Hyphenation: no‧na

### Noun

nona
* 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
* feminine singular of nono

### Anagrams

* anno, nano, nano-, ànno

## Ladino
### Etymology

From Late Latin nonna.

### Noun

nona f (Latin spelling)
* grandmother
    Synonyms: granmama, vava, avuela
    Coordinate term: (gender) nono

## Latin
### Numeral

nōna
* feminine of nōnus

### Noun

nōna f sg (genitive nōnae); first declension
* (Ecclesiastical Latin) nones (canonical hour)

#### Declension

First-declension noun, singular only.

### 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: /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)
* 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)
* custard apple or sugar apple (Annona squamosa)
    Synonyms: buah nona, serikaya
* 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
* to become fat

#### Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈnõ.nɐ/
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈnõ.nɐ/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈno.na/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈno.nɐ/
* Rhymes: -onɐ
* Hyphenation: no‧na

### Etymology 1

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

#### Alternative forms

* 9.ª

#### Adjective

nona
* feminine singular of nono

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from Venetan nona (“grandmother”).

#### Noun

nona f (plural nonas)
* (familiar, South Brazil, São Paulo) grandmother
    Synonyms: avó, vó

### Etymology 3

From Late Latin nonna (“nun”).

#### Noun

nona f (plural nonas)
* (Christianity) nun
    Synonyms: freira, irmã

## Serbo-Croatian
### Etymology

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

### Noun

nona f (Cyrillic spelling нона)
* (Croatia, Chakavian) grandmother
* (Croatia, Chakavian) grandma, granny
* (Croatia, Chakavian) old woman

## Spanish
### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Italian nonna

#### Noun

nona f
* (Rioplatense) Nana
    Synonym: abuela

### Etymology 2
#### Adjective

nona f
* feminine singular of nono

## Swazi
### Verb

-nona
* to be fat

#### Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

## Venda
### Verb

nona
* to be fat

## Venetan
### Etymology

From Late Latin nonna. Cognate with Italian nonna.

### Noun

nona f (plural none)
* grandmother

#### Coordinate terms

* nono

#### Descendants

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