# tuna
## English
### Pronunciation

* (General Australian, Received Pronunciation) enPR: tyo͞o'nə, IPA: /ˈtjuː.nə/
* (yod-coalescence) IPA: /ˈtʃuː.nə/
* (General American, Canada, yod-dropping) enPR: to͞o'nə, IPA: /ˈtu.nə/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -uːnə

### Etymology 1

From American Spanish alteration of the Spanish atún, from Arabic اَلتُّنّ (at-tunn, “tuna”) from Latin thunnus, itself from Ancient Greek θύννος (thúnnos). Possibly in the sense of "darter" from thynein "to dart along". Doublet of tonno.

#### Noun

tuna (countable and uncountable, plural tuna or tunas)
* Any of several species of fish of the genus Thunnus in the family Scombridae.
** 1887, John White, The Ancient History of the Maori, page 84:Tuna was carried down by the flood; and when Maui saw him in the net he stretched forth his arm and with a blow of his stone axe smote Tuna and cut off his head, and it and the tail fell into the ocean. ... The head became fish, and the tail became the koiro (ngoiro—conger-eel).
* The edible flesh of the tuna.

##### Synonyms

* tuna fish, tunny

##### Derived terms

* ahi tuna (Thunnus albacares, Thunnus obesus)
* albacore tuna (Thunnus alalunga)
* Allison tuna (Thunnus albacares)
* bigeye tuna (Thunnus obesus)
* blackfin tuna (Thunnus atlanticus)
* bluefin tuna (Thunnus spp.)
* bullet tuna (Auxis rochei)
* dogtooth tuna (Gymnosarda unicolor)
* frigate tuna (Auxis thazard)
* great tuna (Thunnus thynnus)
* leaping tuna (Thunnus thynnus)
* little tuna (Euthynnus alletteratus)
* longfin tuna, long-finned tuna (Thunnus alalunga)
* mackerel tuna (Auxis thazard)
* park the beef bus in tuna town
* skipjack tuna (Katsuwonus pelamis)
* striped tuna (Katsuwonus spp. et al.)
* tuna casserole
* tuna crab
* tuna junkie
* tuna melt
* tuna noodle casserole
* tuna salad
* tuna taco
* white tuna (Thunnus alalunga, Lepidocybium flavobrunneum)
* yellowfin tuna (Thunnus albacares)
* yellowfin tuna (Thunnus albacares)
* yellowtail tuna (Seriola quinqueradiata)

##### Descendants

* → Armenian: թունա (tʻuna)

##### Translations
#### References

* tuna on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
* Thunnus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
* “tuna”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
* “tuna, n.$^2$”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1915.

### Etymology 2

From Taíno.

#### Noun

tuna (plural tunas)
* The prickly pear, a type of cactus native to Mexico in the genus Opuntia.
* The fruit of the cactus.
** 1907, Experiment Station Work, volume 3, page 94:THE TUNA OR PRICKLY PEAR AS A FOOD FOR MAN

##### Derived terms

* Halimeda tuna

##### Translations

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### See also

* xoconostle

### Further reading

* Opuntia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
* Opuntia on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
* Category:Opuntia on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

### Anagrams

* -naut, aunt, naut., tuan

## Akawaio
### Etymology

From Proto-Cariban *tuna.

### Noun

tuna
* water
* rain

### References

* Journal of the Walter Roth Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, issue 13 (2001), page 12: "(Both Kapon and Pemon groups use tuna to mean "water", but Pemon employ konok which specifically means "rain" - a word which is lacking in the Akawaio language so that tuna is used to refer to rain and to water in general.)"

## Apalaí
### Etymology

From Proto-Cariban *tuna.

### Noun

tuna
* water

#### See also

* paru

### References

* Edward Henry Koehn, Sally Sharp Koehn, Vocabulário Básico, Apalaí-Português Dicionário da Língua Apalaí (1995), page 52

## Bagua
### Etymology

Likely ultimately from Proto-Cariban *tuna.

### Noun

tuna
* water

### References

* Aquiles, Pérez, Los puruhuayes, volume 2, page 314 (1970)
* Willem F. H. Adelaar, The Languages of the Andes

## Carijona
### Etymology

From Proto-Cariban *tuna.

### Noun

tuna
* (Carijona) water

#### Synonyms

* túuna (Hianacoto)

### References

* Las lenguas indígenas de América y el español de Cuba (1993)

## Cebuano
### Etymology

From Proto-Philippine *tuna, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tuna, from Proto-Austronesian *tuNa.

### Pronunciation

* Hyphenation: tu‧na

### Noun

tuna
* the name of a small, glossy-black, worm-like snake, deadly poisonous, found in moist places in grasses and weeds, possibly the blind snake

## Chaima
### Etymology

From Proto-Cariban *tuna.

### Noun

tuna
* water

### References

* Bartolomé Tavera-Acosta, En el sur: (Dialectos indígenas de Venezuela) (1907), page 317

## Chamorro
### Verb

tuna
* (transitive) to laud, to praise

## Cumanagoto
### Etymology

Likely from Proto-Cariban *tuna.

### Noun

tuna
* water

### References

* Bartolomé Tavera-Acosta, En el sur: (Dialectos indígenas de Venezuela) (1907), page 317
* Misiones jesuíticas en la Orinoquía (1625-1767) (1992, José del Rey Fajardo, Universidad Católica del Táchira), page 573: agua Tam. tuna; Map. tuna; Yab. tuna; Chai, tuna; Cum. tuna;

## Czech
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈtuna]

### Noun

tuna f
* ton (unit of weight)

#### Declension
### Further reading

* “tuna”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
* “tuna”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

## French
### Pronunciation

* Homophones: tunas, tunât

### Verb

tuna
* third-person singular past historic of tuner

## Hixkaryana
### Etymology

From Proto-Cariban *tuna.

### Noun

tuna
* water

#### Usage notes

* This term is obligatorily unpossessed.

### References

* Languages of the Amazon (2012, →ISBN, page 170

## Indonesian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈtu.na]
* Hyphenation: tu‧na

### Etymology 1

From Arabic تُنَّ (tunna), تُنّ (tunn), from Latin thunnus, from Ancient Greek θύννος (thúnnos).

#### Noun

tuna (plural tuna-tuna)
* tuna, any of several species of fish of the genus Thunnus in the family Scombridae.

### Etymology 2

Learned borrowing from Old Javanese tuna (“deficient, failing, lacking”), from Sanskrit तुन्न (tunna, “struck, hurt”).

#### Adjective

tuna
* damaged

##### Alternative forms

* tuna-

##### Derived terms

* ketunaan
* tunadaksa

### Further reading

* “tuna” 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.

## Kari'na
### Etymology

From Proto-Cariban *tuna.

### Pronunciation

* (Venezuela) IPA: [tunna]
* (Suriname) IPA: [tuːna]

### Noun

tuna (possessed tunary)
* water
* river

### References

* Courtz, Hendrik (2008) A Carib grammar and dictionary‎, Toronto: Magoria Books, →ISBN, page 392
* Ahlbrinck, Willem (1931) “tuna”, in Encyclopaedie der Karaïben, Amsterdam: Koninklijke Akademie van Wetenschappen, page 472; republished as Willem Ahlbrinck, Doude van Herwijnen, transl., L'Encyclopédie des Caraïbes‎, Paris, 1956, page 462
* Adelaar, Willem F. H.; Pieter C. Muysken (2004) The Languages of the Andes

## Macushi
### Etymology

From Proto-Cariban *tuna.

### Noun

tuna
* water

### References

* Bartolomé Tavera-Acosta, En el sur: (Dialectos indígenas de Venezuela) (1907), page 317
* Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald, Languages of the Amazon (2012), page 188

## Makasar
### Etymology

Probably borrowed from Old Javanese tuna (“deficient, failing, lacking”), from Sanskrit तुन्न (tunna, “struck, hurt”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ʼtuna/, [ˈt̪ʰu.na]
* Hyphenation: tu‧na

### Adjective

tuna (Lontara spelling ᨈᨘᨊ)
* low (of price, height)
    Na ia butta matinggia ri kasaʼrakkanga, na matuna ri pammumbàng, iami antu masarro laʼbiriʼ niempòi.Now the ground that rises high toward the west and is low toward the east is excellent for building a dwelling.
    Tunami ballinna.The price is already low.
* low in value, insignificant, minor, inferior
* lesser, lowly, disgraced
* poor, miserable
    Tuna memang tau toaku.My parents are indeed despicable.
* cheap (in price)
* modest, humble
    Tuna ri kana-kananna.He was humble in his words.

### Adverb

tuna (Lontara spelling ᨈᨘᨊ)
* Used in comparisons, to indicate something is lesser or equivalent in some respect.

#### Affixations

* attuna-tuna
* pakatuna
* tunài

#### Compounds

* tau tuna
* tuna gauʼ
* tuna kana-kana
* tuna lele

### Further reading

* A. A. Cense (2024) Makassaars-Nederlands woordenboek‎, Brill, →DOI

## Malay
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tuna/
* Rhymes: -una, -na, -a

### Etymology 1

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tuna, from Proto-Austronesian *tuNa (“freshwater eel”).

#### Noun

tuna (Jawi spelling تونا, plural tuna-tuna, informal 1st possessive tunaku, 2nd possessive tunamu, 3rd possessive tunanya)
* The name of a mudsnake or eel with a yellowish body, possibly the marbled eel, Anguilla marmorata.
** 2015 December 6, Shaiful Shahrin Ahmad Pauzi, “Rezeki lampam mabuk menyerah diri [Pixilated tinfoil barb surrendered itself]”, in Berita Harian‎, archived from the original on 20 March 2016:Mohd Akhmal berkata, selain ikan lampam, seorang penduduk turut dapat menangkap seekor belut tuna seberat hampir tiga kilogram menggunakan jala.Mohd Akhmal said, besides a tinfoil barb, a resident has managed to catch a marbled eel weighing almost three kilograms using a net.

##### Synonyms

* ikan linang

##### Hyponyms

* belut tuna
* ular tuna
* tuna sungai

### Etymology 2

From English tuna.

#### Noun

tuna (Jawi spelling تونا, plural tuna-tuna, informal 1st possessive tunaku, 2nd possessive tunamu, 3rd possessive tunanya)
* tuna, any of several species of fish of the genus Thunnus in the family Scombridae.

##### Hyponyms

* ikan tuna

### Etymology 3

From Sanskrit तुणति (tuṇati, “crooked”).

#### Noun

tuna (plural tuna-tuna, informal 1st possessive tunaku, 2nd possessive tunamu, 3rd possessive tunanya)
* wound

#### Adjective

tuna
* damaged, flawed, injured

#### Derived terms

Regular affixed derivations:
* ketunaan [abstract / locative] (ke-an)
* tertuna [agentless action] (teR-)
Irregular affixed derivations, other derivations and compound words:
* tunaaksara (“illiterate”)
* tunaanggota (“limbless”)
* tunabudi (“foolish”)
* tunadaksa (“disability”)
* tunakarya (“jobless”)
* tunakerna (“deaf”)
* tunanetra (“blind”)
* tunasusila (“unmannered”)
* tunatertib (“troublemaker”)
* tunawicara (“mute, aphonic”)
* tunawisma (“homeless”)

### Further reading

* "tuna" in Kamus Dewan, Fourth Edition, Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, →ISBN, 2005.
* “tuna” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

## Maori
### Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *tuna, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tuna, from Proto-Austronesian *tuNa (“freshwater eel”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈtʉ.nɐ]

### Noun

tuna
* eel of various species, including longfin eels (Anguilla dieffenbachii) and shortfin eels (Anguilla australis)

#### Derived terms

* herehere-tuna
* pā tuna
* pepe tuna
* rama tuna
* tuna heke
* tuna hinahina
* tuna kaingārā
* tuna korokoro

### References

* “tuna” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.

## Mapoyo
### Etymology

From Proto-Cariban *tuna.

### Noun

tuna
* water

### References

* Bartolomé Tavera-Acosta, En el sur: (Dialectos indígenas de Venezuela) (1907), page 317
* Misiones jesuíticas en la Orinoquía (1625-1767) (1992, José del Rey Fajardo, Universidad Católica del Táchira), page 573: agua Tam. tuna; Map. tuna; Yab. tuna; Chai, tuna; Cum. tuna;

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Noun

tuna n
* definite plural of tun

## Old English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtuː.nɑ/

### Noun

tūna
* genitive plural of tūn

## Opón
### Etymology

From Proto-Cariban *tuna.

### Noun

tuna
* water

#### Synonyms

* tuná-in'i /tuna-iño

### References

* Caminos de historia en el Carare-Opón (1999), page 254: Agua . . . Tuna
* Boletín de la Academia Colombiana (1959): en el Opón-Karare: tuna

## Panare
### Noun

tuna
* Alternative form of tïna (“water”)

### References

* Bartolomé Tavera-Acosta, En el sur: (Dialectos indígenas de Venezuela) (1907), page 317
* Jean-Paul Dumont, Under the Rainbow: Nature and Supernature among the Panare (2014)
* Marie-Claude Mattei Müller, Yoroko: a Panare shaman's confidences (1992), page 141

## Pemon
### Etymology

From Proto-Cariban *tuna.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tuˈna/

### Noun

tuna
* water

### References

* Journal of the Walter Roth Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, issue 13 (2001), page 12: "(Both Kapon and Pemon groups use tuna to mean "water", but Pemon employ konok which specifically means "rain" - a word which is lacking in the Akawaio language so that tuna is used to refer to rain and to water in general.)"
* ↑ 2006, Katia Nepomuceno Pessoa, Fonologia Taurepang e comparação preliminar da fonologia de línguas do grupo Pemóng (família Caribe), Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, attachment 7.
* Katia Nepomuceno Pessoa, Fonologia Taurepang e comparação preliminar da fonologia de línguas do grupo Pemóng (família Caribe) (2006), page 139

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈtũ.nɐ/
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈtũ.nɐ/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈtu.na/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈtu.nɐ/

### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Spanish tuna (“singing group”).

#### Noun

tuna f (plural tunas)
* (music) a college singing group, wearing ornate clothes

##### Related terms

* tuno

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

tuna
* inflection of tunar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

### References

* ↑ “tuna”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025

## Pukapukan
### Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *tuna, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tuna, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tuna, from Proto-Austronesian *tuNa (“freshwater eel”).

### Noun

tuna
* a kind of fish
* a striped lagoon eel, toothless and edible

#### Derived terms

* tuna taupulepule
* tuna wenua
* palu tuna

### Further reading

* Te Pukamuna | Pukapuka Dictionary

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### Etymology

From Proto-Cariban *tuna.

### Noun

tuná
* water

### References

* Vom Roraima zum Orinoco, volume 4
* Revista andina, volume 11 (1993), page 451

## Quechua
### Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish tuna.

### Noun

tuna
* prickly pear (fruit)

#### Derived terms

* tunas mallki (“prickly pear cactus”)
* tunasqachu (“drunk”)

### Further reading

* Pérez, Julio Calvo (2022) Nuevo diccionario español-quechua quechua-español, Vol. 2, Lima: University of San Martín de Porres, p. 1114.

## Romanian
### Etymology

Inherited from Latin tonāre, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tenh₂- (“to thunder”).

### Verb

a tuna (third-person singular present tună, past participle tunat) 1st conjugation
* to thunder
* to speak thunderously

#### Derived terms

* tunare

#### Related terms

* detuna
* tunet
* tun

#### See also

* fulgera
* trăsni

## Samoan
### Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *tuna, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tuna, from Proto-Austronesian *tuNa.

### Noun

tuna
* eel

## Sapará

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### Etymology

From Proto-Cariban *tuna.

### Noun

tu꞉ná
* water

### References

* Vom Roraima zum Orinoco, volume 4
* Revista andina, volume 11 (1993), page 451

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtuna/ [ˈt̪u.na]
* Rhymes: -una
* Syllabification: tu‧na

### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Taíno.

#### Noun

tuna f (plural tunas)
* prickly pear, the fruit of the nopal cactus (Opuntia, especially Opuntia ficus-indica)
    Synonym: higo de tuna
* nopal
    Synonyms: nopal, higuera de tuna, higuera de Indias

##### Usage notes

* Tuna is a false friend, and does not mean a kind of fish in Spanish. The Spanish word for that English meaning of tuna is atún.

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from French tune, possibly from roi de Thunes (“king of Tunis”), a title used by leaders of vagabonds.

#### Noun

tuna f (plural tunas)
* (Spain) a college singing group, wearing ornate clothes, called in the Americas estudiantina

##### Descendants

* → Portuguese: tuna

#### Further reading

* “tuna”, 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
* Tuna (music) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

### Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Noun

tuna f (plural tunas)
* female equivalent of tuno

### Etymology 4

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

tuna
* inflection of tunar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

## Swahili
### Verb

tuna
* first-person plural present affirmative of -wa na

## Tagalog
### Etymology 1
#### Pronunciation

* (Standard Tagalog) IPA: /tuˈnaʔ/ [t̪ʊˈn̪aʔ]
* Rhymes: -aʔ
* Syllabification: tu‧na

#### Adjective

tunâ (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜓᜈ) (chiefly dialectal)
* submerged; sunk
    Synonym: lubog
* collapsed; destroyed
    Synonyms: giba, bagsak, lagpak, huso

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from English tuna, from American Spanish alteration of the Spanish atún, from Andalusian Arabic, from Arabic اَلتُّنّ (at-tunn, “tuna”) from Latin thunnus, from Ancient Greek θύννος (thúnnos). Doublet of atun.

#### Pronunciation

* (Standard Tagalog) IPA: /ˈtuna/ [ˈt̪uː.n̪ɐ]
* Rhymes: -una
* Syllabification: tu‧na

#### Noun

tuna (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜓᜈ)
* tuna
    Synonym: atun

##### See also

* tulingan

### Further reading

* “tuna”, in KWF Diksiyonaryo ng Wikang Filipino, Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2024
* “tuna”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

### Anagrams

* unat

## Tamanaku
### Etymology

From Proto-Cariban *tuna.

### Noun

tuna
* water

### References

* Bartolomé Tavera-Acosta, En el sur: (Dialectos indígenas de Venezuela) (1907), page 316-7
* Misiones jesuíticas en la Orinoquía (1625-1767) (1992, José del Rey Fajardo, Universidad Católica del Táchira), page 573: agua Tam. tuna; Map. tuna; Yab. tuna; Chai, tuna; Cum. tuna;

## Tetum
### Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tuna.

### Noun

tuna
* eel

## Trió
### Etymology

From Proto-Cariban *tuna.

### Noun

tuna
* water

### Further reading

* Eithne Carlin, A Grammar of Trio: A Cariban Language of Suriname (2004)

## Wayana
### Etymology

From Proto-Cariban *tuna.

### Noun

tuna
* water

### References

* Sergio Meira, Primeras observaciones sobre la lengua yukpa (2005) (mentions "wayana tuna he wai " in notes)

## Wayumara

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### Etymology

From Proto-Cariban *tuna.

### Noun

tuná
* water

### References

* Vom Roraima zum Orinoco, volume 4
* Revista andina, volume 11 (1993), page 451

## Yabarana
### Etymology

From Proto-Cariban *tuna.

### Noun

tuna
* water

### References

* Bartolomé Tavera-Acosta, En el sur: (Dialectos indígenas de Venezuela) (1907), page 317
* Misiones jesuíticas en la Orinoquía (1625-1767) (1992, José del Rey Fajardo, Universidad Católica del Táchira), page 573: agua Tam. tuna; Map. tuna; Yab. tuna; Chai, tuna; Cum. tuna;

## Ye'kwana
### Etymology

From Proto-Cariban *tuna.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [tuna]

### Noun

tuna
* water
* river, watercourse

#### Derived terms

* tuna awono ökato
* tuna jedü

### References

* Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “tuna”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎, Lyon
* Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, pages 217, 399: “[ṭuna] 'water' […] tuna - water”
* Hall, Katherine (2007) “tuna”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021