# zona
## English
### Etymology 1

From Latin zōna.

#### Noun

zona (plural zonas or zonae or zonæ)
* (sciences) A zone or band; a layer.
* (medicine) shingles.

##### Related terms

* zona glomerulosa
* zona incerta
* zona pellucida
* zona radiata
* zona reticularis

### Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

#### Noun

zona (plural zonas)
* Certain freshwater fishes of genus Bedotia (Atheriniformes), from Madagascar:
* Any of species Bedotia geayi
    Synonym: red-tailed silverside
* Any of species Bedotia madagascariensis

### References

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

### Anagrams

* -zoan, Azon, onza

## Albanian
### Noun

zona
* inflection of zonë:
** definite nominative singular
** indefinite nominative/accusative plural

## Catalan
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin zōna, from Ancient Greek ζώνη (zṓnē).

### Pronunciation

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

### Noun

zona f (plural zones)
* zone

#### Derived terms

* zona blava
* zona d'habitabilitat estel·lar
* zona erògena
* zona euro
* zona horària
* zona monetària
* zona morta
* zona tropical
* zonal

### Further reading

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

## Corsican
### Pronunciation

* This entry needs pronunciation information. If you are familiar with the IPA then please add some!

### Noun

zona f
* zone

### Further reading

* “zona” in INFCOR: Banca di dati di a lingua corsa

## Dutch
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin zōna, from Ancient Greek ζώνη (zṓnē).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈzoː.naː/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: zo‧na
* Rhymes: -oːnaː

### Noun

zona f (uncountable)
* (medicine) shingles
    Synonym: gordelroos

## French
### Etymology

From Ancient Greek ζώνη (zṓnē).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /zo.na/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

zona m (plural zonas)
* (pathology) shingles

### Verb

zona
* third-person singular past historic of zoner

### Further reading

* “zona”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Galician
### Etymology

Attested since circa 1300. Learned borrowing from Latin zōna.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈθonɐ]

### Noun

zona f (plural zonas)
* zone, area
* district, area, region

### References

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

## Indonesian
### Etymology

Internationalism, learned borrowing from Latin zōna, from Ancient Greek ζώνη (zṓnē).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈzona]
* Rhymes: -na, -a
* Hyphenation: zo‧na

### Noun

zona (plural zona-zona)
* zone
** (geography) each of the five regions of the earth's surface into which it was divided by climatic differences, namely the torrid zone (between the tropics), two temperate zones (between the tropics and the polar circles), and two frigid zones (within the polar circles)
** any given region or area of the world; a given area distinguished on the basis of a particular characteristic, use, restriction, etc.
    Synonyms: daerah, kawasan

#### Alternative forms

* zone
* zon (Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore)

#### Hyponyms

* zona aerasi
* zona afotik
* zona aseptik
* zona bersejarah
* zona budaya sejarah
* zona disfotik
* zona ekonomi eksklusif
* zona erotis
* zona eufotik
* zona fotik
* zona intertidal
* zona jenuh
* zona laik huni
* zona limnetik
* zona litoral
* zona merah
* zona netral
* zona nyaman
* zona oligosa pribik
* zona pasang surut
* zona pemanfaatan
* zona pembuangan
* zona pemulihan
* zona preservasi
* zona ruang
* zona subduksi
* zona tropolitik
* zona waktu

#### Derived terms

* berzona
* perzonaan

#### Related terms

* zonasi

### Further reading

* “zona” 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.

## Interlingua
### Noun

zona (plural zonas)
* zone, region

## Italian
### Etymology

From Latin zōna.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: $^*$/ˈd͡zɔ.na/
* Audio (IT):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɔna
* Hyphenation: zò‧na

### Noun

zona f (plural zone)
* a zone, area or district

#### Derived terms

* zona a traffico limitato (ZTL)
* zona di guerra (“war zone”)
* zona disco (“meter zone (for cars)”)
* zona giorno
* zona notte (“sleeping area (in a house)”)
* zona pedonale, zona verde (“pedestrian area in a town”)
* zona rifornimento
* zonale
* zonare
* zonizzare

### Further reading

* zona in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

## Latin
### Alternative forms

* sōna (Old Latin)

### Etymology

From Ancient Greek ζώνη (zṓnē).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈzoː.na/, [ˈz̪oːnä]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈd͡zo.na/, [ˈd̪͡z̪ɔːnä]

### Noun

zōna f (genitive zōnae); first declension
* belt, girdle
    Synonym: cinctus
** 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 6.787–788:‘zōna latet tua nunc, et crās fortasse latēbit: dehinc erit, Ōrīōn, aspicienda mihi.’“Your belt is hiding now, and perhaps tomorrow it will lie hidden: Afterwards, Orion, it will be visible to me.” (It is the heliacal rising (appearance before sunrise) in June of the upper portion of Orion (constellation).)
* zone

#### Declension

First-declension noun.

#### Derived terms

* zōnālis
* zōnārius
* zōnātim
* zōnula

#### Descendants

* Catalan: zona
* English: zone, zona pellucida
* French: zone
* Galician: zona
* German: Zone
* Hungarian: zóna
* Italian: zona
* Occitan: zòna
* Portuguese: zona
* Romanian: zonă
* Sicilian: zuna
* Spanish: zona

### References

* “zona”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “zona”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* "zona", 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)
* zona in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* “zona”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
* “zona”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

## Lithuanian
### Noun

zonà f (plural zònos) stress pattern 2
* zone

#### Declension
## Northern Ndebele
### Etymology 1

From Proto-Nguni [Term?].

#### Pronoun

zoná
* they, them; class 8 absolute pronoun.

### Etymology 2

From Proto-Nguni [Term?].

#### Pronoun

zoná
* they, them; class 10 absolute pronoun.

## Papiamentu
### Etymology

From Spanish zona and Portuguese zona.

### Noun

zona
* zone

## Polish
### Etymology

Borrowed from French zone.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈzɔ.na/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ɔna
* Syllabification: zo‧na

### Noun

zona f
* (geography) zone (area separated from a larger area)
    Synonyms: obręb, obszar, strefa, terytorium

#### Declension
### Further reading

* zona in Polish dictionaries at PWN

## Portuguese
### Etymology 1

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

#### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈzõ.nɐ/
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈzõ.nɐ/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈzo.na/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈzo.nɐ/
* Rhymes: -onɐ
* Homophone: -zona
* Hyphenation: zo‧na

#### Noun

zona f (plural zonas)
* zone (in a broad geographic or geometric sense)
    Synonyms: área, parte
* area, region (part of a city or country)
    Synonym: região
    Ela mora nesta zona. ― She lives in this area.
* (Brazil, colloquial) mess
    Synonym: desordem
    A cozinha está uma zona! ― The kitchen is an absolute mess!
** 2024 October 9, “Cafetina bolsonarista eleita vereadora afirma que de "zona" ela entende”, in Tribuna Independente, Maceió, page 7:A bolsonarista também afirmou que o municipo estava uma “zona” e que do tema ela entende.(please add an English translation of this quotation)
* (Brazil, colloquial) red light district; brothel

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈzõ.nɐ/
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈzõ.nɐ/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈzo.na/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈzɔ.nɐ/
* Hyphenation: zo‧na

#### Verb

zona
* inflection of zonar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

## Romanian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈzo.na]

### Etymology 1
#### Noun

zona f
* definite nominative singular of zonă: the zone
* definite accusative singular of zonă: the zone

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from French zona.

#### Noun

zona f (uncountable)
* (pathology) shingles

##### Declension

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## Serbo-Croatian
### Noun

zóna f (Cyrillic spelling зо́на)
* zone, area

#### Declension
## Slovene
### Etymology 1
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /zóːna/

#### Noun

zọ̑na f
* shudder (shiver out of anxiety, excitement etc.)

##### Inflection
### Etymology 2
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /t͡sóːna/

#### Noun

zọ̑na f
* Alternative spelling of cọ̑na

##### Inflection
## Southern Ndebele
### Etymology 1

From Proto-Nguni [Term?].

#### Pronoun

zoná
* they, them; class 8 absolute pronoun.

### Etymology 2

From Proto-Nguni [Term?].

#### Pronoun

zoná
* they, them; class 10 absolute pronoun.

## Spanish
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Spain) /ˈθona/ [ˈθo.na]
* IPA: (Latin America, Philippines) /ˈsona/ [ˈso.na]
* Audio (Colombia):(file)
* Rhymes: -ona
* Syllabification: zo‧na

### Noun

zona f (plural zonas)
* zone, district, area
    Synonyms: área, localidad

#### Hyponyms

* zona de exclusión aérea (“no-fly zone”)
* zona de influencia
* zona geográfica (“geographical area”)

#### Derived terms

* zona cero
* zona de articulación
* zona de confort
* zona de desastre
* zona de desove
* zona de ensanche
* zona de guerra
* zona del euro
* zona económica exclusiva
* zona erógena
* zona euro
* zona franca
* zona horaria
* zona industrial
* zona marítima exclusiva
* zona roja
* zona urbana
* zona verde
* zonación
* zonal
* zoneíta
* zonificar

#### Further reading

* “zona”, 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

## Turkish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin zōna, from Ancient Greek ζώνη (zṓnē).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈzo.na/
* Hyphenation: zo‧na

### Noun

zona (definite accusative zonayı, plural zonalar)
* (medicine) shingles

#### Declension

singular
plural
nominative
zona
zonalar
definite accusative
zonayı
zonaları
dative
zonaya
zonalara
locative
zonada
zonalarda
ablative
zonadan
zonalardan
genitive
zonanın
zonaların
Possessive forms
nominative
singular
plural
1st singular
zonam
zonalarım
2nd singular
zonan
zonaların
3rd singular
zonası
zonaları
1st plural
zonamız
zonalarımız
2nd plural
zonanız
zonalarınız
3rd plural
zonaları
zonaları
definite accusative
singular
plural
1st singular
zonamı
zonalarımı
2nd singular
zonanı
zonalarını
3rd singular
zonasını
zonalarını
1st plural
zonamızı
zonalarımızı
2nd plural
zonanızı
zonalarınızı
3rd plural
zonalarını
zonalarını
dative
singular
plural
1st singular
zonama
zonalarıma
2nd singular
zonana
zonalarına
3rd singular
zonasına
zonalarına
1st plural
zonamıza
zonalarımıza
2nd plural
zonanıza
zonalarınıza
3rd plural
zonalarına
zonalarına
locative
singular
plural
1st singular
zonamda
zonalarımda
2nd singular
zonanda
zonalarında
3rd singular
zonasında
zonalarında
1st plural
zonamızda
zonalarımızda
2nd plural
zonanızda
zonalarınızda
3rd plural
zonalarında
zonalarında
ablative
singular
plural
1st singular
zonamdan
zonalarımdan
2nd singular
zonandan
zonalarından
3rd singular
zonasından
zonalarından
1st plural
zonamızdan
zonalarımızdan
2nd plural
zonanızdan
zonalarınızdan
3rd plural
zonalarından
zonalarından
genitive
singular
plural
1st singular
zonamın
zonalarımın
2nd singular
zonanın
zonalarının
3rd singular
zonasının
zonalarının
1st plural
zonamızın
zonalarımızın
2nd plural
zonanızın
zonalarınızın
3rd plural
zonalarının
zonalarının
Predicative forms
singular
plural
1st singular
zonayım
zonalarım
2nd singular
zonasın
zonalarsın
3rd singular
zona zonadır
zonalar zonalardır
1st plural
zonayız
zonalarız
2nd plural
zonasınız
zonalarsınız
3rd plural
zonalar
zonalardır :

## Xhosa
### Etymology 1

From Proto-Nguni [Term?].

#### Pronoun

zoná
* they, them; class 8 absolute pronoun.

### Etymology 2

From Proto-Nguni [Term?].

#### Pronoun

zoná
* they, them; class 10 absolute pronoun.

## Zulu
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /zoːná/

### Etymology 1

From Proto-Nguni [Term?].

#### Pronoun

zoná
* they, them; class 8 absolute pronoun.

##### Inflection
### Etymology 2

From Proto-Nguni [Term?].

#### Pronoun

zoná
* they, them; class 10 absolute pronoun.

##### Inflection
### References

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