# fana
## English
### Noun

fana
* plural of fanum

### Anagrams

* Afan, faan

## Asturian
### Noun

fana f (plural fanes)
* rocky area
* rockfall

## Bambara
### Etymology 1
#### Noun

fana
* meal

### Etymology 2
#### Adverb

fana
* also, too
    A ye bamanankan kalan. A ye fulakan fana kalanHe studied Bambara. He also studied Fulfuldé.

### References

* Richard Nci Diarra, Lexique bambara-français-anglais, December 13, 2010

## French
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)
* Homophones: fanas, fanât

### Verb

fana
* third-person singular past historic of faner

## Galician
### Etymology 1

From Proto-Germanic *fanją.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈfana]

#### Noun

fana f (plural fanas)
* landslide, landslip
    Synonyms: barronca, freita

##### Related terms

* fananco

#### References

* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “fana”, 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), “fana”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “fana”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

fana
* inflection of fanar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

## Gothic
### Romanization

fana
* Romanization of 𐍆𐌰𐌽𐌰

## Irish
### Verb

fana
* present subjunctive analytic of fan

### Mutation

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

## Kashubian
### Etymology

Borrowed from German Fahne. Compare Greater Polish fana and Silesian fana.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfa.na/
* Rhymes: -ana
* Syllabification: fa‧na

### Noun

fana f (diminutive fanka)
* flag
* ensign
* banner

#### Declension
### Further reading

* Eùgeniusz Gòłąbk (2011) “flaga”, in Słownik Polsko-Kaszubski / Słowôrz Pòlskò-Kaszëbsczi‎
* “fana”, in Internetowi Słowôrz Kaszëbsczégò Jãzëka [Internet Dictionary of the Kashubian Language], Fundacja Kaszuby, 2022

## Latin
### Noun

fāna
* nominative/accusative/vocative plural of fānum

## Malagasy
### Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *panas.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /fana/

### Noun

fana
* heat

### References

* fana in Malagasy dictionaries at malagasyword.org

## Niuean
### Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian, from Proto-Oceanic, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *panaq, from Proto-Austronesian *panaq.

### Noun

fana
* bow (archery)
* gun
* arrow (projectile)

## Old English
### Alternative forms

* fæna, fona

### Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *fanō, from Proto-Germanic *fanô.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfɑ.nɑ/

### Noun

fana m
* a bit of cloth, patch
* a banner or standard; a flag
* a vane

#### Declension

Weak:

#### Derived terms

* gūþfana
* windfana

#### Related terms

* fane
* fanu

#### Descendants

* Middle English: fane, vane
** English: fane, vane
** Scots: fane, fen

## Old Saxon
### Preposition

fana
* Alternative form of fan

## Polish
### Etymology

Borrowed from German Fahne. Compare Kashubian fana and Silesian fana.

### Pronunciation

* (Greater Poland):
** (Central Greater Poland) IPA: /ˈfa.na/

### Noun

fana f
* (Poznań) Synonym of chorągiew (“banner”)

### Further reading

* Waldemar Wierzba (2013) “fana”, in Słownik Poznańskie słowa i ausdrucki (in Polish), 1st edition, Mierzyn: Albus, →ISBN, page 69

## Samoan
### Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian, from Proto-Oceanic, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *panaq, from Proto-Austronesian *panaq.

### Verb

fana
* to shoot

### Noun

fana
* gun, riffle

## Silesian
### Etymology

Borrowed from German Fahne. Compare Greater Polish fana and Kashubian fana.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfa.na/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ana
* Syllabification: fa‧na

### Noun

fana f
* flag, banner (any cloth or fabric used as a symbol)

### Further reading

* fana in silling.org

## Swahili
### Pronunciation

* Audio (Kenya):(file)

### Verb

-fana (infinitive kufana)
* to be enjoyable, be successful

#### Conjugation

Conjugation of -fana :
| Positive present | -nafana |
| Subjunctive | -fane |
| Negative | -fani |
| Imperative singular | fana |
Infinitives :
| Positive | kufana |
| Negative | kutofana |
Imperatives :
| Singular | fana |
| Plural | faneni |
Tensed forms :
| Habitual | hufana |
| Positive past | positive subject concord + -lifana |
| Negative past | negative subject concord + -kufana |
| Positive future | positive subject concord + -tafana |
| Negative future | negative subject concord + -tafana |
| Negative subjunctive | positive subject concord + -sifane |
| Positive present conditional | positive subject concord + -ngefana |
| Negative present conditional | positive subject concord + -singefana |
| Positive past conditional | positive subject concord + -ngalifana |
| Negative past conditional | positive subject concord + -singalifana |
| Perfect | positive subject concord + -mefana |
| "Already" | positive subject concord + -meshafana |
| "Not yet" | negative subject concord + -jafana |
| "If/When" | positive subject concord + -kifana |
| "If not" | positive subject concord + -sipofana |
| Consecutive | kafana / positive subject concord + -kafana |
| Consecutive subjunctive | positive subject concord + -kafane |
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:
** ufanifu (“success”)

## Swedish
### Etymology

From Old Swedish fana, from Old Norse fani, from Proto-Germanic *fanô, from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂n-.

### Noun

fana c
* a banner, a flag

#### Declension
## Ternate
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfa.na/

### Noun

fana
* the ridge of a house

#### Descendants

* → Manado Malay: mafana (“house ridge”) (with Ternate possessive ma-)

### References

* Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

## Tongan
### Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian, from Proto-Oceanic, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *panaq, from Proto-Austronesian *panaq.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /fa.na/

### Verb

fana
* to shoot
* to dynamite

## Xhosa
### Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-púana, associative derivation of Proto-Bantu *-púa.

### Verb

-fána
* to be like

#### Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

#### Derived terms

* -fanisa

## Zulu
### Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-púana, associative derivation of Proto-Bantu *-púa.

### Verb

-fána
* to be the same, alike
* to resemble [with na-]

#### Derived terms

* -faneka
* -fanela
* -fanisa

### References

* C. M. Doke, B. W. Vilakazi (1972) “fana”, in Zulu-English Dictionary, →ISBN: “fana (3.9)”