# mena
## Asturian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmena/ [ˈme.na]

### Noun

mena f (plural menes)
* kind, type, sort, manner, category
    Synonyms: tipu, climen
** 1876-1895(?), Teodoro Cuesta, Cuentu de xunt'al fueu‎:Una vos cuntaré de bona menaI'll tell you one (a story) of good kind
** 1925, Enrique García Rendueles, La Rueca‎:Un cerru de bona menaA hill of good kind
* lineage, origin
** 1634-1662(?), Antón de Marirreguera, Hero y Lleandro‎:Home de bon calter y bona mena ,Man of good character and good lineage
** 1891, Teodoro Cuesta, Glorias de Asturias:Pedro José Pidal, de bona mena,Pedro José Pidal, of good lineage

### Further reading

* “mena” in Diccionario general de la lengua asturiana. Xosé Lluis García Arias. →ISBN.

## Catalan
### Etymology 1

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *mīna, *mēna, from Gaulish *meina (“mineral, ore”). Doublet of mina<t:mine>. First attested in 1185.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central) [ˈmɛ.nə]
* IPA: (Balearic) [ˈmə.nə]
* IPA: (Valencia) [ˈme.na]

#### Noun

mena f (plural menes)
* (mineralogy) ore
* sort, kind, type
    Synonyms: classe, espècie, tipus
* (nautical) strand (of a rope)
* (nautical) thickness, size (especially of a rope)

### Etymology 2
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Balearic) [ˈmɛ.nə]

#### Noun

mena f (plural menes)
* (colloquial, Balearic) lie, falsehood

#### Noun

mena m or f by sense (plural menes)
* (colloquial, Balearic) liar

### Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central) [ˈmɛ.nə]
* IPA: (Balearic) [ˈmə.nə]
* IPA: (Valencia) [ˈme.na]

#### Verb

mena
* inflection of menar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

### Further reading

* “mena” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “mena”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
* “mena” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
* “mena” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

## French
### Verb

mena
* third-person singular past historic of mener

### Anagrams

* amen

## Gothic
### Romanization

mēna
* Romanization of 𐌼𐌴𐌽𐌰

## Hausa
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /méː.nàː/
** (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA: [méː.nàː]

### Noun

mēnā̀ f (possessed form mēnàr̃)
* dama gazelle

## Italian
### Etymology 1
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈme.na/, /ˈmɛ.na/
* Rhymes: -ena, -ɛna
* Hyphenation: mé‧na, mè‧na

#### Noun

mena f (plural mene)
* plot, conspiracy
    Synonyms: complotto, trama, intrigo, macchinazione

### Etymology 2
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈme.na/
* Rhymes: -ena
* Hyphenation: mé‧na

#### Verb

mena
* inflection of menare:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

### References

* 1 2 mena in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

### Anagrams

* -mane, amen

## Kikuyu
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mɛna/

### Verb

mena (infinitive kũmena)
* to dislike, to despise

#### Antonyms

* kwenda

#### Derived terms

(Nouns)
* mũmeni class 1
(Proverbs)
* mũmenwo arutagwo mbakĩ iniũrũ

#### Related terms

(Nouns)
* rũmena class 11

#### See also

* gũthũũra

### References

* ↑ Mugu, Muturi Anthony (2014). "Antonymy in Gĩkũyũ: a cognitive semantics approach", p. 29.
* Armstrong, Lilias E. (1940). The Phonetic and Tonal Structure of Kikuyu, p. 362. Rep. 1967. (Also in 2018 by Routledge).

## Kituba
### Verb

mena
* to grow (as plants do)

## Lithuanian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈmʲæ̌ːn̪ɐ]

### Verb

mẽna
* third-person singular present of miñti
* third-person plural present of miñti

## Malagasy
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Adjective

mena
* red
* (dialectal, Bara, figuratively) angry

### See also

Colors in Malagasy · volo (layout · text) :
| fotsy | volombatolalaka ; vatolalaka | mainty ; ngaly |
| mena ; horàka; menapina ; jaky ; dorehitra | haboka ; heza; fiana ; manja ; lañary | vony ; hasaka |
| | maitso | |
| | | manga |
| volomparasy ; katso ; lalena; angana | volomparasy ; katso ; lalena | mavokely |

## Murui Huitoto
### Etymology

Cognates include Minica Huitoto mena and Nüpode Huitoto mena.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈmɛna]
* Hyphenation: me‧na

### Numeral

mena
* two

#### Derived terms

* menakaño

### References

* Shirley Burtch (1983) Diccionario Huitoto Murui (Tomo I) (Linguistica Peruana No. 20)‎ (in Spanish), Yarinacocha, Peru: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, page 176
* Katarzyna Izabela Wojtylak (2017) A grammar of Murui (Bue): a Witotoan language of Northwest Amazonia.‎, Townsville: James Cook University press (PhD thesis), page 148

## Occitan
### Pronunciation

* Audio (Languedoc):(file)

### Noun

mena f (plural menas)
* type, sort, kind
    Synonyms: sòrta, espècia
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### Further reading

* Joan de Cantalausa (2006) Diccionari general occitan a partir dels parlars lengadocians‎, 2 edition, →ISBN, page 638.

## Old Swedish
### Verb

mena
* to mean

#### Conjugation
### Verb

mēna
* (transitive with accusative) to harm
* to hinder, prevent
* to forbid, prohibit

#### Conjugation
## Old Tupi
### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *men, from Proto-Tupian *men.
Cognate with Paraguayan Guaraní ména.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmɛ̃.na/
* Rhymes: -ɛ̃na
* Hyphenation: me‧na

### Noun

mena (possessable)
* husband (male partner in marriage)
    Coordinate term: emirekó (“wife”)

#### Related terms

* aîymena
* membyra
* menduba
* mendy
* mendûera
* mene'yma
* mene'õ
* menybyra
* menyky'yra
* pyky'ymena
* symena
* uke'imena
* ykemena
* îetipemena

#### Descendants

* Nheengatu: mena

### References

* ↑ Beatriz Carretta Corrêa da Silva (2010) Mawé/Awetí/Tupí-Guaraní: relações linguísticas e implicações históricas‎ (in Portuguese), Brasília: UnB
* ↑ Aryon d'Alligna Rodrigues (2007) “As consoantes do proto-tupí”, in Aryon d'Alligna Rodrigues, Ana Suelly Arruda Câmara Cabral, editors, Línguas e culturas tupí‎, 1 edition, volume 1, Campinas: Curt Nimuendajú, pages 167–204

### Further reading

* Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “mena”, in Dicionário de tupi antigo: a língua indígena clássica do Brasil [Dictionary of Old Tupi: The Classical Indigenous Language of Brazil] (overall work in Portuguese), São Paulo: Global, →ISBN, page 277, column 1

## Serbo-Croatian
### Alternative forms

* mijéna (Ijekavian)

### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *měna.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /měːna/
* Hyphenation: me‧na

### Noun

ména f (Cyrillic spelling ме́на)
* change
    Synonyms: prȍmena, ȉzmena
* phase
* lunation

#### Declension
### References

* “mena”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

## Slovak
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈmena]

### Etymology 1

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *měna (“change, exchange”).

#### Noun

mena f (relational adjective menový)
* (finance) currency

##### Declension
### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Noun

mena n
* genitive singular of meno

### References

* ↑ Králik, Ľubor (2016) “meniť”, in Stručný etymologický slovník slovenčiny [Concise Etymological Dictionary of Slovak] (in Slovak), Bratislava: VEDA; JÚĽŠ SAV, →ISBN, page 354

### Further reading

* “mena”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025

## Sotho
### Verb

mena
* to fold
    Synonym: phutha

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmena/ [ˈme.na]
* Rhymes: -ena
* Syllabification: me‧na

### Etymology 1
#### Noun

mena f (plural menas)
* ore

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

mena m or f by sense (plural menas)
* Alternative letter-case form of MENA

### Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

mena
* inflection of menar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

### Further reading

* “mena”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

## Swedish
### Etymology

From Old Swedish mena, from Middle Low German mēnen, meinen (compare Icelandic meina, Danish mene), from Old Saxon mēnian, from Proto-Germanic *mainijaną, from Proto-Indo-European *mein-.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [²meːna]
* Audio:(file)

### Verb

mena (present menar, preterite menade, supine menat, imperative mena)
* to mean; to convey, or to want to convey
* to mean; to be of the opinion that or to have as one's conviction
* to mean; to have as one's intention

#### Related terms

* mening