# sona
## English
### Noun

sona (plural sonas)
* (fandom slang) Clipping of fursona.
** 2020, Kathy Merlock Jackson, Kathy Shepherd Stolley, Lisa Lyon Payne, Animals and Ourselves: Essays on Connections and Blurred Boundaries, McFarland, →ISBN:Especially interesting in this regard are furries with more than one fursona. […] Consider, for instance, how Muse describes his two fursonas: My two current sonas are a bat and a rabbit.

### Anagrams

* Onas, Noas, AONs, Naso, Naos, naos, naso-, ONAs, Sano

## Atong (India)
### Etymology

From Bengali সোনা (śōna) or Hindi सोना (sonā), from Sanskrit सुवर्ण (suvarṇa).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /sʰona/

### Noun

sona (Bengali script সোনা)
* gold

### References

* van Breugel, Seino. 2015. Atong-English dictionary, second edition. Available online: https://www.academia.edu/487044/Atong_English_Dictionary.

## Catalan
### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [ˈsɔ.nə]
* IPA: (Valencia) [ˈsɔ.na]
* Rhymes: -ɔna

### Verb

sona
* inflection of sonar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

## Cebuano
### Etymology

From English zone, from Latin zōna, from Ancient Greek ζώνη (zṓnē, “girdle, belt”).

### Pronunciation

* Hyphenation: so‧na

### Noun

sona
* a zone; a given area distinguished on the basis of a particular characteristic, use, restriction, etc.

## Chuukese
### Verb

sona
* (intransitive) to steal

## Crimean Tatar
### Noun

sona (accusative [please provide], plural [please provide])
* wasp

## Galician
### Etymology

Attested since 1708. From son (“sound”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈsona/ [ˈs̺o.nɐ]
* Rhymes: -ona
* Hyphenation: so‧na

### Noun

sona f (plural sonas)
* rumor; word of mouth
* fame; reputation
    Synonyms: fama, nome, reputación

### References

* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “sona”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “sona”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “sona”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

## Icelandic
### Noun

sona
* indefinite genitive plural of sonur

## Irish
### Etymology

From Old Irish sona, from Proto-Celtic *sugnāwos (“well grown”).

### Pronunciation

* (Munster) IPA: /ˈsˠɔn̪ˠə/, /ˈsˠɞn̪ˠə/
* (Connacht) IPA: /ˈsˠʊnˠə/, /ˈsˠʊn̪ˠə/

### Adjective

sona
* happy

#### Declension

$^1$ When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article. $^2$ When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.

#### Derived terms

* sonas (“happiness”)
* lá breithe sona dhuit (“happy birthday”)
* Nollaig shona (“Merry Christmas”)

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

### References

* ↑ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 177, page 90
* ↑ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 180, page 91

### Further reading

* Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “sona”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

## Italian
### Verb

sona
* inflection of sonare:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

### Anagrams

* Naos, Naso, Sanò, anso, ansò, naso, naso-, sano, sanò

## Javanese
### Romanization

sona
* Romanization of ꦱꦺꦴꦤ

## Latin
### Verb

sonā
* second-person singular present active imperative of sonō

### References

* "sona", 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)

## Lower Sorbian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈsɔna/

### Noun

sona
* inflection of son:
** genitive/accusative singular
** nominative dual

## Northern Ndebele
### Etymology

From Proto-Nguni *soná.

### Pronoun

soná
* he, she, him, her, it; class 7 absolute pronoun.

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Alternative forms

* sonen

### Noun

sona m or f
* definite feminine singular of sone

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Noun

sona f
* definite singular of sone

## Old English
### Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *sānō. Related to Old Norse senn, Gothic 𐍃𐌿𐌽𐍃 (suns).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈsoː.nɑ/

### Adverb

sōna
* immediately, straightaway
** late 10th century, Ælfric, "Saint Sebastian, Martyr"
    Hwæt ða nicostratus wearð swiðe afyrht þa ða he þæt wundor ge-seah on his wife gedon and feol adune sona to sebastianes fotum...Then Nicostratus was greatly afraid, when he saw the miracle wrought on his wife, and immediately fell down at Sebastian's feet,...

#### Synonyms

* samtinges

#### Descendants

* English: soon

## Old Irish
### Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *sugnāwos (“well grown”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵneh₃- (“to know”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈsona/

### Adjective

sona
* happy, fortunate

#### Usage notes

* The adjectives sona and dona represent a pattern in Old Irish where words in s and so represent happy, good luck, positive denotations and words in d and do represent sad, bad luck, or negative denotations.

#### Descendants

* Irish: sona
* Manx: sonney
* Scottish Gaelic: sona

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

## Old Norse
### Noun

sona
* genitive plural of sonr

## Phuthi
### Etymology

From Proto-Nguni *soná.

### Pronoun

soná
* he, she, him, her, it; class 7 absolute pronoun.

## Scottish Gaelic
### Etymology

From Old Irish sona, from Proto-Celtic *sognāwos (“well grown”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [sɔnə]

### Adjective

sona
* happy
    Tha mi cho sona ri bròig! ― I’m as happy as a shoe!
* fortunate, lucky

#### Derived terms

* cho sona ri bròg
* co-latha breith sona

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Scottish Gaelic. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

## Southern Ndebele
### Etymology

From Proto-Nguni *soná.

### Pronoun

soná
* he, she, him, her, it; class 7 absolute pronoun.

## Swahili
### Verb

-sona (infinitive kusona)
* to relax, rest

#### Conjugation

Conjugation of -sona :
| Positive present | -nasona |
| Subjunctive | -sone |
| Negative | -soni |
| Imperative singular | sona |
Infinitives :
| Positive | kusona |
| Negative | kutosona |
Imperatives :
| Singular | sona |
| Plural | soneni |
Tensed forms :
| Habitual | husona |
| Positive past | positive subject concord + -lisona |
| Negative past | negative subject concord + -kusona |
| Positive future | positive subject concord + -tasona |
| Negative future | negative subject concord + -tasona |
| Negative subjunctive | positive subject concord + -sisone |
| Positive present conditional | positive subject concord + -ngesona |
| Negative present conditional | positive subject concord + -singesona |
| Positive past conditional | positive subject concord + -ngalisona |
| Negative past conditional | positive subject concord + -singalisona |
| Perfect | positive subject concord + -mesona |
| "Already" | positive subject concord + -meshasona |
| "Not yet" | negative subject concord + -jasona |
| "If/When" | positive subject concord + -kisona |
| "If not" | positive subject concord + -siposona |
| Consecutive | kasona / positive subject concord + -kasona |
| Consecutive subjunctive | positive subject concord + -kasone |
Relative forms :
Some forms not commonly seen in modern Standard Swahili are absent from the table. See Appendix:Swahili verbs for more information. :

#### Derived terms

* Nominal derivations:
** usono (“resting”)

## Swazi
### Etymology

From Proto-Nguni *soná.

### Pronoun

soná
* he, she, him, her, it; class 7 absolute pronoun.

## Swedish
### Verb

sona (present sonar, preterite sonade, supine sonat, imperative sona)
* to atone (to make reparation for a crime or the like)
* (by extension) to pay (face consequences)
    Han ska få sona sina brott!He will pay for his crimes!

#### Conjugation

$^1$ Archaic. $^2$ Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs.

#### Related terms

* försona

### References

* sona in Svensk ordbok (SO)
* sona in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
* sona in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

### Anagrams

* nosa, onas

## Tetum
### Etymology 1

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *saŋelaʀ.

#### Verb

sona
* to fry

### Etymology 2

Maybe the same as above.

#### Verb

sona
* to puncture, to pierce
* to stab

## Turkish
### Noun

sona
* dative singular of son

## Volapük
### Noun

sona
* genitive singular of son

## Xhosa
### Etymology

From Proto-Nguni *soná.

### Pronoun

soná
* he, she, him, her, it; class 7 absolute pronoun.

## Zulu
### Etymology

From Proto-Nguni *soná.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /soːná/

### Pronoun

soná
* he, she, him, her, it; class 7 absolute pronoun.

#### Inflection
### References

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