nini

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See also: Nini and ni-ni

English

Interjection

nini

  1. (usually even more childish) Alternative form of night night

Brunei Malay

Etymology

Cognate with Malay nenek.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /nini/
  • Hyphenation: ni‧ni

Noun

nini

  1. grandparent; grandfather or grandmother

Eastern Ojibwa

Etymology

cf. Ojibwe inini

Noun

nini

  1. man

References

Jerry Randolph Valentine (2001) Nishnaabemwin Reference Grammar, University of Toronto, page 105

Hawaiian

Pronunciation

Verb

nini

  1. to pour

Derived terms

Hungarian

Etymology

ni +‎ ni

Pronunciation

Interjection

nini

  1. (colloquial) lo!, look!
    Nini, egy madár! ― Look! A bird!

References

  1. ^ nini in Zaicz, Gábor (ed.). Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (‘Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN.  (See also its 2nd edition.)

Further reading

  • nini in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈni.ni/
  • Rhymes: -ini
  • Hyphenation: nì‧ni

Noun

nini m

  1. plural of nino

Anagrams

Old Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *snisni (compare Welsh nini).

Pronunciation

Pronoun

nini (emphatic)

  1. we
    Synonyms: sinni, sisni, snisni
    • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 43d5
      Is nini fo·rálaig.
      It is we that it had prostrated.

Ottawa

Etymology

cf. Ojibwe inini

Noun

nini anim (plural ninwag, obviative ninwan)

  1. man

References

Jerry Randolph Valentine (2001) Nishnaabemwin Reference Grammar, University of Toronto, page 105

Spanish

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Etymology

Acronym of ni estudia ni trabaja (“neither studies nor works”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈnini/
  • Rhymes: -ini
  • Syllabification: ni‧ni

Noun

nini m or f by sense (plural ninis)

  1. (informal) NEET, neet

See also

Swahili

Pronunciation

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Pronoun

nini

  1. what (interrogative pronoun)

Derived terms

Related terms

Tunica

Noun

nini

  1. fish
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