jena

See also: Jena, jenă, Jéňa, and jèná

Esperanto

Etymology

jen +‎ -a

Pronunciation

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Adjective

jena (accusative singular jenan, plural jenaj, accusative plural jenajn)

1. following (which are about to follow (i.e., be presented) shortly)

Italian

Noun

jena f (plural jene)

1. (obsolete) Alternative spelling of iena

Juba Arabic

Etymology

From Sudanese Arabic جنى (jana).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɟena/, [ˈɟe.na]

Noun

jena

1. child
2. baby

References

• Ian Smith, Morris Timothy Ama (1985) A Dictionary of Juba Arabic & English‎^[1], 1st edition, Juba: The Committee of The Juba Cheshire Home and Centre for Handicapped Children, page 144

Latvian

Piecas jenas (1942)

Noun

jena f (4th declension)

1. yen (monetary unit of Japan)

   piecas jenas ― five yen

   papīra jena ― paper yen (i.e., bills, banknotes)

   jenas kurss ― the exchange rate of the yen

   grāmata maksā piecas jenas ― the book costs five yen

Declension

Declension of jena (4th declension)

	singular (vienskaitlis)	plural (daudzskaitlis)
nominative (nominatīvs)	jena	jenas
accusative (akuzatīvs)	jenu	jenas
genitive (ģenitīvs)	jenas	jenu
dative (datīvs)	jenai	jenām
instrumental (instrumentālis)	jenu	jenām
locative (lokatīvs)	jenā	jenās
vocative (vokatīvs)	jena	jenas

Lithuanian

Noun

jenà f (plural jènos) stress pattern 2

1. yen (currency of Japan)

Declension

Declension of jenà

	singular (vienaskaita)	plural (daugiskaita)
nominative (vardininkas)	jenà	jènos
genitive (kilmininkas)	jènos	jènų
dative (naudininkas)	jènai	jènoms
accusative (galininkas)	jèną	jenàs
instrumental (įnagininkas)	jenà	jènomis
locative (vietininkas)	jènoje	jènose
vocative (šauksmininkas)	jèna	jènos

Maltese

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian iena, from Latin hyaena, from Ancient Greek ὕαινα (húaina).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈjɛː.na/

Noun

jena f (plural jeni)

1. hyena

Derived terms

• jena bl-istrixxi

 

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French gêner.

Verb

a jena (third-person singular present jenează, past participle jenat) 1st conj.

1. to embarrass
2. to discomfort, incommode

   Synonym: incomoda

3. to inconvenience
4. to hinder, impede, be in the way of

   Synonyms: împiedica, stânjeni, stingheri

5. to disturb, trouble

   Synonym: deranja

Conjugation

    conjugation of jena (first conjugation, -ez- infix)

infinitive			a jena
gerund			jenând
past participle			jenat
number		singular			plural
person		1st person	2nd person	3rd person	1st person	2nd person	3rd person
indicative		eu	tu	el/ea	noi	voi	ei/ele
	present	jenez	jenezi	jenează	jenăm	jenați	jenează
	imperfect	jenam	jenai	jena	jenam	jenați	jenau
	simple perfect	jenai	jenași	jenă	jenarăm	jenarăți	jenară
	pluperfect	jenasem	jenaseși	jenase	jenaserăm	jenaserăți	jenaseră
subjunctive		eu	tu	el/ea	noi	voi	ei/ele
	present	să jenez	să jenezi	să jeneze	să jenăm	să jenați	să jeneze
imperative		—	tu	—	—	voi	—
	affirmative		jenează			jenați
	negative		nu jena			nu jenați

Related terms

• jenă

See also

• rușina

Slavomolisano

Etymology

From Serbo-Croatian jedan.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jěnâː/

Noun

jena f

1. one

Upper Sorbian

Upper Sorbian cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : jena     Ordinal : prěni

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [jɛˈna]

Numeral

jena f (m jedyn, n jene)

1. one

Ye'kwana

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [hʷena]

Noun

jena (possessed jenai)

1. oar or paddle for rowing

References

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “jena”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[2], Lyon
• Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “he:na”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, page 290
• Hall, Katherine (2007) “hēna”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎^[3], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021