aina

Atong (India)

Etymology

From Bengali আয়না (aẏna), from Classical Persian آیینه (āyīna).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ajna/

Noun

aina (Bengali script আয়্না or আইনা)

1. mirror

References

• van Breugel, Seino. 2015. Atong-English dictionary, second edition. Available online: https://www.academia.edu/487044/Atong_English_Dictionary.

Esperanto

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):
• Rhymes: -ina
• Hyphenation: a‧in‧a

Adjective

aina (accusative singular ainan, plural ainaj, accusative plural ainajn)

1. Ainu (of or relating to the Ainu people of northern Japan)

Related terms

• aino (“Ainu”, noun)

Estonian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *aina, possibly of Baltic origin. Compare Lithuanian vienat (“only”).

Adverb

aina (not comparable)

1. on and on, always

   Läheb aina külmemaks. ― It's always getting colder.

   Venib aina pikemaks. ― It's getting longer and longer.

Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑi̯nɑ/,
• Rhymes: -ɑinɑ
• Syllabification^(key): ai‧na

Etymology 1

From Proto-Finnic *aina (compare Estonian aina), probably borrowed from Proto-Baltic (compare Old Prussian ainat (“always, constantly”) and Lithuanian vienàt (“only”)).

Adverb

aina

1. always

   Antonym: ei koskaan

   Hän on aina myöhässä. ― He/she is always late.

2. (temporal) all the way to, (all the way) until

   aina vuoteen 2000 ― all the way to year 2000

Derived terms

Further reading

• “1. aina”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-01

Etymology 2

From Proto-Finnic *aina (compare Estonian ain), possibly from Proto-Finno-Ugric *ajna.

Noun

aina

1. (fishing) the string in the upper or lower edge of a fishing net or seine; line in a gillnet

   Synonym: paula

Declension

Derived terms

Further reading

• “2. aina”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-01

Etymology 3

Noun

aina

1. essive plural of aa

Anagrams

• -aani

Garo

Etymology

From Bengali আয়না (aẏna), from Persian آیینه (âyine).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ajna/

Noun

aina

1. mirror

Gothic

Romanization

aina

1. Romanization of 𐌰𐌹𐌽𐌰

Hawaiian

Etymology

ai +‎ -na.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈai̯.na/, , (rapid speech)

Noun

aina

1. coition

Ingrian

Pronunciation

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈɑi̯nɑ/,
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈɑi̯nɑ/,
• Rhymes: -ɑi̯n, -ɑi̯nɑ
• Hyphenation: ai‧na

Adverb

aina

1. Alternative form of ain
   • 1936, N. A. Iljin and V. I. Junus, Bukvari iƶoroin șkouluja vart, Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 32:

     Makkaa aina yksintää, siis et noise läsimää.

     Always sleep alone, so you don't get ill.

References

• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 6

Kari'na

Alternative forms

• aija (West Suriname)

Etymology

From Proto-Cariban *ômija.

Pronunciation

• (Venezuela) IPA^(key):
• (West Suriname) IPA^(key):
• (East Suriname) IPA^(key):

Noun

aina (possessed ainary)

1. hand

Derived terms

Postposition

aina

1. in the hand of

References

• Courtz, Hendrik (2008) A Carib grammar and dictionary‎, Toronto: Magoria Books, →ISBN, pages 213-214
• Ahlbrinck, Willem (1931) “aña”, in Encyclopaedie der Karaïben, Amsterdam: Koninklijke Akademie van Wetenschappen, page 83; republished as Willem Ahlbrinck, Doude van Herwijnen, transl., L'Encyclopédie des Caraïbes‎, Paris, 1956, page 85

Laz

Adverb

aina

1. Latin spelling of აინა (aina)

Lote

Noun

aina

1. child

References

• Greg Pearson, René van den Berg, Lote Grammar Sketch (2008)

Rohingya

Alternative forms

• (Arabic) اَيۡنَ
• (Bengali) আয়না, আইনা
• (Myanmar) အိုင်နာ
• (Hanifi) 𐴀𐴝𐴘𐴕𐴝 (ayna)

Etymology

From Persian آیینه (âyine).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):

Noun

aina

1. mirror
2. glass pane

Synonyms

• ana

Swahili

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic عَيِّنَة (ʕayyina, “sample”).

Pronunciation

• Audio (Kenya)

  (file)

Noun

aina (n class, plural aina)

1. kind, type

Related terms

• -ainisha (“to classify”)

Swedish

Etymology

Clipping of Turkish aynasız (“police”), from ayna (“mirror”) +‎ -sız (“-less”). Of uncertain origin; see the Turkish main entry.

Noun

aina c

1. (uncountable, slang, derogatory) the police (collectively)

   Synonyms: farbror blå, snuten, bängen, grisen, bylingen, polisen

   Aina kommer!

   The cops are coming!

   Är du aina?

   Are you a cop?

   • 2024 March 14, chapter 2 (22:52 from the start), in IFS – invandrare för svenskar‎, season 3, spoken by Orhan Bicen, Sveriges Television:

     Abow, aina igen, jao!

     Damn, the cop again, yo!

References

• Slangopedia

Tungag

Noun

aina

1. woman

Further reading

• Malcolm Ross, Proto Oceanic and the Austronesian Languages of Western Melanesia, Pacific Linguistics, series C-98 (1988)
• ABVD, citing Beaumont (editor), Lavongai Materials, volume 82 of Pacific Linguistics: Series D (Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University, Canberra; 1986)