nina

From the name Nina, taken from the cartoonist Al Hirschfield's habit of hiding his daughter Nina's name in his drawings.

nina (plural ninas)

1. A hidden message revealed in the completed grid of a crossword.
   • 2008 April 1, Ilan Caron, “Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 24350 set by Brendan”, in rec.puzzles.crosswords‎ (Usenet):

     The puzzle itself was fairly easy however there was an elegant nina based on the middle entry (INSIDE STORY) in which each of the across answers hid a synonym of "story", e.g. 5A and 6A were: STABle gendER.

   • 2014 August 10, Brian Bethune, “The crossword’s meandering 100-year journey”, in Maclean's‎:

     Ninas may or may not be present and, even if one is there, it can go unnoticed because, not being intrinsic to the solution, its presence is not advertised—or because it is so well hidden.

   • 2014, Alan Connor, The Crossword Century: 100 Years of Witty Wordplay, Ingenious Puzzles, and Linguistic Mischief, Penguin, →ISBN:

     Other “personal” ninas are happier and subtler: birthday wishes to loved ones, which, ultimately, have only one intended reader

• Nain, nani, inna, Inna

nina

1. fire

• nena (child)

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic)
• IPA^(key): (Valencia)

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nina f (plural nines, masculine nin)

1. (anatomy) pupil

   Synonym: pupil·la

2. doll
3. (dialectal) girl, female child

From Vulgar Latin *ninna, a nursery or infantile word.

nina f

1. mother

From Proto-Finnic *nenä.

nina (genitive nina, partitive nina)

1. (anatomy) nose
2. tip

From Zulu nina.

nina

1. you, you all; second-person singular pronoun.

nina

1. Rōmaji transcription of にな

nina

1. Alternative form of ni (water)

• The Papuan Languages of New Guinea (1986, →ISBN

From Portuguese nina, clipping of menina. Possibly a doublet of nhim.

nina

1. girl
2. young single woman

• nhinina

• https://www.macaneselibrary.org/pub/english/uipatua.htm#n

nina

1. name

• Hyphenation: ni‧na

nina f (plural ninas)

1. Clipping of menina.

nina

1. fire for cooking, candle, match

• ninay
• ninayay

nina

1. woman, female

• Dictionary of the Sasak language of Lombok, with Indonesian and English (1995)

From Proto-Nguni *niná.

niná

1. you, you all; second-person plural absolute pronoun.

nina

1. Romanization of 𒀏 (nina)

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nina

1. first-person singular present affirmative of -wa na

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /niˈna/
• Rhymes: -a
• Syllabification: ni‧na

niná (Baybayin spelling ᜈᜒᜈ)

1. possessive particle, used only with personal names

   Synonym: (colloquial) nila

   mga bisikleta nina Juan at Juana ― Juan and Juana's bicycles

2. ergative marker used with personal names, equivalent of ng mga used with common nouns.

• This is used where there is more than one addressee, as a simpler way of saying ni … at ni (e.g. nina Pedro at Juan).
• Where it precedes one name, this refers to the person and others surrounding them (e.g. nina Pedro refers to Pedro and anyone other around him, usually unspecified).

From Proto-Nguni *niná.

niná

1. you, you all; second-person plural absolute pronoun.

From Proto-Nguni *niná.

• IPA^(key): /niːná/

niná

1. you, you all; second-person plural absolute pronoun.

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