# nina
## English
### Etymology

From the name Nina, taken from the cartoonist Al Hirschfield's habit of hiding his daughter Nina's name in his drawings.

### Noun

nina (plural ninas)
* (crosswording) A hidden message revealed in the completed grid of a crossword.
** 2008 April 1, Ilan Caron, “Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 24350 set by Brendan”, in rec.puzzles.crosswords‎ (Usenet):The puzzle itself was fairly easy however there was an elegant nina based on the middle entry (INSIDE STORY) in which each of the across answers hid a synonym of "story", e.g. 5A and 6A were: STABle gendER.
** 2014 August 10, Brian Bethune, “The crossword’s meandering 100-year journey”, in Maclean's‎:Ninas may or may not be present and, even if one is there, it can go unnoticed because, not being intrinsic to the solution, its presence is not advertised—or because it is so well hidden.
** 2014, Alan Connor, The Crossword Century: 100 Years of Witty Wordplay, Ingenious Puzzles, and Linguistic Mischief, Penguin, →ISBN:Other “personal” ninas are happier and subtler: birthday wishes to loved ones, which, ultimately, have only one intended reader

### Anagrams

* Inna, inna, Nain, nain, nani, Nian

## Aymara
### Noun

nina
* fire

## Catalan
### Alternative forms

* nena (child)

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [ˈni.nə]
* IPA: (Valencia) [ˈni.na]
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

nina f (plural nines, masculine nin)
* (anatomy) pupil
    Synonym: pupil·la
* doll
* (dialectal) girl, female child

## Dalmatian
### Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *ninna, a nursery or infantile word.

### Noun

nina f
* mother

## Estonian
### Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *nenä.

### Noun

nina (genitive nina, partitive nina)
* (anatomy) nose
* tip

#### Declension
## Fanagalo
### Etymology

From Zulu nina.

### Pronoun

nina
* you, you all; second-person singular pronoun.

## Japanese
### Romanization

nina
* Rōmaji transcription of にな

## Kamano
### Noun

nina
* Alternative form of ni (water)

### References

* The Papuan Languages of New Guinea (1986, →ISBN

## Macanese
### Etymology

From Portuguese nina, clipping of menina. Possibly a doublet of nhim.

### Noun

nina
* girl
* young single woman

#### Derived terms

* nhinina

### References

* https://www.macaneselibrary.org/pub/english/uipatua.htm#n

## Miskito
### Noun

nina
* name

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈnĩ.nɐ/
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈnĩ.nɐ/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈni.na/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈni.nɐ/
* Hyphenation: ni‧na

### Noun

nina f (plural ninas)
* Clipping of menina.

## Quechua
### Noun

nina
* fire for cooking, candle, match

#### See also

* ninay
* ninayay

## Sasak
### Noun

nina
* woman, female

### References

* Dictionary of the Sasak language of Lombok, with Indonesian and English (1995)

## Southern Ndebele
### Etymology

From Proto-Nguni *niná.

### Pronoun

niná
* you, you all; second-person plural absolute pronoun.

## Sumerian
### Romanization

nina
* Romanization of 𒀏 (nina)

## Swahili
### Pronunciation

* Audio (Kenya):(file)

### Verb

nina
* first-person singular present affirmative of -wa na

## Tagalog
### Pronunciation

* (Standard Tagalog) IPA: /niˈna/ [n̪ɪˈn̪a]
* Rhymes: -a
* Syllabification: ni‧na

### Article

niná (Baybayin spelling ᜈᜒᜈ)
* possessive particle, used only with personal names
    Synonym: (colloquial) nila
    mga bisikleta nina Juan at Juana ― Juan and Juana's bicycles
* ergative marker used with personal names, equivalent of ng mga used with common nouns.

#### Usage notes

* This is used where there is more than one addressee, as a simpler way of saying ni [1st referrent] … at ni [last referrent] (e.g. nina Pedro at Juan).
* Where it precedes one name, this refers to the person and others surrounding them (e.g. nina Pedro refers to Pedro and anyone other around him, usually unspecified).

### See also

| | | Direct (ang) | Indirect (ng) | Oblique (sa) |
| Common | Singular | ang | ng | sa |
| Common | Plural | ang mga | ng mga | sa mga |
| Personal | Singular | si | ni | kay |
| Personal | Plural / Polite | sina | nina | kina |

## Xhosa
### Etymology

From Proto-Nguni *niná.

### Pronoun

niná
* you, you all; second-person plural absolute pronoun.

## Zulu
### Etymology

From Proto-Nguni *niná.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /niːná/

### Pronoun

niná
* you, you all; second-person plural absolute pronoun.

#### Inflection
### References

* C. M. Doke, B. W. Vilakazi (1972) “nina”, in Zulu-English Dictionary, →ISBN: “nina (6.3)”