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English
Interjection
nini
- (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
- grandparent; grandfather or grandmother
Eastern Ojibwa
Etymology
cf. Ojibwe inini
Noun
nini
- man
References
Jerry Randolph Valentine (2001) Nishnaabemwin Reference Grammar, University of Toronto, page 105
Hawaiian
Pronunciation
Verb
nini
- to pour
Derived terms
Hungarian
Etymology
ni + ni[1]
Pronunciation
Interjection
nini
- (colloquial) lo!, look!
- Nini, egy madár! ― Look! A bird!
References
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
- plural of nino
Anagrams
Old Irish
Etymology
From Proto-Celtic *snisni (compare Welsh nini).
Pronunciation
Pronoun
nini (emphatic)
- 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)
- man
References
Jerry Randolph Valentine (2001) Nishnaabemwin Reference Grammar, University of Toronto, page 105
Spanish
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)
- (informal) NEET, neet
See also
Swahili
Pronunciation
Pronoun
nini
- what (interrogative pronoun)
Derived terms
Tunica
Noun
nini
- fish