# nena
## Catalan
### Alternative forms

* nina

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [ˈnɛ.nə]
* IPA: (Valencia) [ˈne.na]

### Noun

nena f (plural nenes)
* female equivalent of nen; girl, female child

### Further reading

* “nena” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

## Dupaningan Agta
### Noun

nena
* mother (term of reference)

#### Synonyms

* hena

## Galician
### Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese neno, nena (“young, tender”), from Vulgar Latin *ninnus, probably imitative of infantile language. Cognate with Spanish niña.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈne.na/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

nena f (plural nenas)
* child (female), especially before puberty
    Synonyms: cativa, meniña, rapariga, rapaza
* girl; young woman
** 1403, M. M .Graña Cid (ed.), Las órdenes mendicantes en el obispado de Mondoñedo. El convento de san Martín de Villaoriente (1374-1500). Estudios Mindonienses, page 237:
    Item mando que den aa nena que mora en na casa duas trases et hun tornes et huna camisa et duas sauaas
       Item, I order that they give to the girl that lives at the house two trases [?] and a solidus from Tours and a shirt and two sheets
    Synonyms: meniña, moza

#### Related terms

* neno

### References

* Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “nena”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “neno”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “nena”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “nena”, 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), “nena”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “neno”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

## Laz
### Noun

nena
* Latin spelling of ნენა (nena)

## Ludian
### Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *nenä.

### Noun

nena
* nose

## Serbo-Croatian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish ننه (Turkish nene).

### Noun

nena f (Cyrillic spelling нена)
* grandmother
* grandma
* granny
* old woman

#### Synonyms

* baka, baba, nona

## Spanish
### Etymology

Feminine form of nene (“kid, baby”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈnena/ [ˈne.na]
* Rhymes: -ena
* Syllabification: ne‧na

### Noun

nena f (plural nenas)
* female equivalent of nene; baby girl
    Coordinate term: niña
* (colloquial) babe, dear (term of endearment to a woman or girl)
** 1978, “¿Qué hace una chica como tú en un sitio como este?”, performed by Burning:Los años te delatan, nena, / estás fuera de sitioThe years give you away, babe / you're out of place

#### Derived terms

* nenita

### Further reading

* “nene”, 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

## Swahili
### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Bantu [Term?].

### Pronunciation

* Audio (Kenya):(file)

### Verb

-nena (infinitive kunena)
* to say

#### Conjugation

Conjugation of -nena :
| Positive present | -nanena |
| Subjunctive | -nene |
| Negative | -neni |
| Imperative singular | nena |
Infinitives :
| Positive | kunena |
| Negative | kutonena |
Imperatives :
| Singular | nena |
| Plural | neneni |
Tensed forms :
| Habitual | hunena |
| Positive past | positive subject concord + -linena |
| Negative past | negative subject concord + -kunena |
| Positive future | positive subject concord + -tanena |
| Negative future | negative subject concord + -tanena |
| Negative subjunctive | positive subject concord + -sinene |
| Positive present conditional | positive subject concord + -ngenena |
| Negative present conditional | positive subject concord + -singenena |
| Positive past conditional | positive subject concord + -ngalinena |
| Negative past conditional | positive subject concord + -singalinena |
| Perfect | positive subject concord + -menena |
| "Already" | positive subject concord + -meshanena |
| "Not yet" | negative subject concord + -janena |
| "If/When" | positive subject concord + -kinena |
| "If not" | positive subject concord + -siponena |
| Consecutive | kanena / positive subject concord + -kanena |
| Consecutive subjunctive | positive subject concord + -kanene |
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:
** mnenaji (“speaker”)
** neno (“word”)

## Veps
### Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *nenä.

### Noun

nena
* nose (on face)
* nose (of a shoe)

#### Derived terms

* nenasäl'gmed
* nenanjur'

### References

* Zajceva, N. G., Mullonen, M. I. (2007) “нос, носок”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary]‎, Petrozavodsk: Periodika