zona

English

Etymology 1

Latin zōna.

Noun

zona (plural zonas or zonae or zonæ)

1. (sciences) A zone or band; a layer.

Related terms

Etymology 2

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Noun

zona (plural zonas)

1. Certain freshwater fishes of genus Bedotia (Atheriniformes), from Madagascar:
2. Any of species Bedotia geayi

   Synonym: red-tailed silverside

3. Any of species Bedotia madagascariensis

References

• Bedotia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Bedotia on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Bedotia on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Anagrams

• -zoan, Azon, onza

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin zōna, from Ancient Greek ζώνη (zṓnē).

Pronunciation

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

• Audio

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Noun

zona f (plural zones)

1. zone

Derived terms

Further reading

• “zona” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Corsican

Pronunciation

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Noun

zona f

1. zone

Further reading

• “zona” in INFCOR: Banca di dati di a lingua corsa

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin zōna, from Ancient Greek ζώνη (zṓnē).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈzoː.naː/

• Audio

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• Hyphenation: zo‧na
• Rhymes: -oːnaː

Noun

zona f (uncountable)

1. (medicine) shingles

   Synonym: gordelroos

French

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ζώνη (zṓnē).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /zo.na/

• Audio

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Noun

zona m (plural zonas)

1. (pathology) shingles

Verb

zona

1. third-person singular past historic of zoner

Further reading

• “zona”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.

Galician

Etymology

Attested since circa 1300. Learned borrowing from Latin zōna.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):

Noun

zona f (plural zonas)

1. zone, area
2. district, area, region

References

• “zona” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “zona” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “zona” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “zona” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “zona” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Indonesian

Indonesian Wikipedia has an article on:

zona

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Etymology

Internationalism, learned borrowing from Latin zōna, from Ancient Greek ζώνη (zṓnē).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):
• Rhymes: -na, -a
• Hyphenation: zo‧na

Noun

zona (plural zona-zona, first-person possessive zonaku, second-person possessive zonamu, third-person possessive zonanya)

1. zone
   1. (geography) each of the five regions of the earth's surface into which it was divided by climatic differences, namely the torrid zone (between the tropics), two temperate zones (between the tropics and the polar circles), and two frigid zones (within the polar circles).
   2. any given region or area of the world; a given area distinguished on the basis of a particular characteristic, use, restriction, etc.

      Synonyms: daerah, kawasan

Alternative forms

• zone
• zon (Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore)

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Related terms

Further reading

• “zona” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

Interlingua

Noun

zona (plural zonas)

1. zone, region

Italian

Etymology

From Latin zōna.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): ^*/ˈd͡zɔ.na/

• Audio (IT)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɔna
• Hyphenation: zò‧na

Noun

zona f (plural zone)

1. a zone, area or district

Derived terms

Further reading

• zona in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Latin

Alternative forms

• sōna (Old Latin)

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ζώνη (zṓnē).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈzoː.na/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈd͡zo.na/,

Noun

zōna f (genitive zōnae); first declension

1. belt, girdle

   Synonym: cinctus

   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 6.787–788:

     ‘zōna latet tua nunc, et crās fortasse latēbit:
     dehinc erit, Ōrīōn, aspicienda mihi.’

     “Your belt is hiding now, and perhaps tomorrow it will lie hidden: Afterwards, Orion, it will be visible to me.”
     (It is the heliacal rising (appearance before sunrise) in June of the upper portion of Orion (constellation).)

2. zone

Declension

First-declension noun.

Derived terms

Descendants

References

• “zona”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “zona”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• zona in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• zona in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “zona”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “zona”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Lithuanian

Noun

zonà f (plural zònos) stress pattern 2

1. zone

Declension

Northern Ndebele

Etymology 1

From Proto-Nguni .

Pronoun

zoná

1. they, them; class 8 absolute pronoun.

Etymology 2

From Proto-Nguni .

Pronoun

zoná

1. they, them; class 10 absolute pronoun.

Papiamentu

Etymology

From Spanish zona and Portuguese zona.

Noun

zona

1. zone

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from French zone, from Latin zōna, from Ancient Greek ζώνη (zṓnē).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈzɔ.na/

• Audio

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• Rhymes: -ɔna
• Syllabification: zo‧na

Noun

zona f

1. (geography) zone (area separated from a larger area)

   Synonyms: obręb, obszar, strefa, terytorium

Declension

Further reading

• zona in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Etymology 1

From Latin zōna (“girdle, zone”), from Ancient Greek ζώνη (zṓnē, “belt, sash, zone”).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -onɐ
• Homophone: -zona
• Hyphenation: zo‧na

Noun

zona f (plural zonas)

1. zone (in a broad geographic or geometric sense)

   Synonyms: área, parte

2. area, region (part of a city or country)

   Synonym: região

   Ela mora nesta zona. ― She lives in this area.

3. (Brazil, colloquial) mess

   Synonym: desordem

   A cozinha está uma zona! ― The kitchen is an absolute mess!

4. (Brazil, colloquial) red light district; brothel

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: zo‧na

Verb

zona

1. inflection of zonar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):

Etymology 1

Noun

zona f

1. definite nominative singular of zonă: the zone
2. definite accusative singular of zonă: the zone

Etymology 2

Borrowed from French zona.

Noun

zona f (uncountable)

1. (pathology) shingles

Declension

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Serbo-Croatian

Noun

zóna f (Cyrillic spelling зо́на)

1. zone, area

Declension

Slovene

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /zóːna/

Noun

zọ̑na f

1. shudder (shiver out of anxiety, excitement etc.)

Inflection

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡sóːna/

Noun

zọ̑na f

1. Alternative spelling of cọ̑na

Inflection

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.

Southern Ndebele

Etymology 1

From Proto-Nguni .

Pronoun

zoná

1. they, them; class 8 absolute pronoun.

Etymology 2

From Proto-Nguni .

Pronoun

zoná

1. they, them; class 10 absolute pronoun.

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin zōna (“girdle, zone”), from Ancient Greek ζώνη (zṓnē, “belt, sash, zone”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /ˈθona/
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /ˈsona/

• Audio (Colombia):

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• Rhymes: -ona
• Syllabification: zo‧na

Noun

zona f (plural zonas)

1. zone, district, area

   Synonyms: área, localidad

Hyponyms

• zona de exclusión aérea (“no-fly zone”)
• zona de influencia
• zona geográfica (“geographical area”)

Derived terms

Further reading

• “zona”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin zōna, from Ancient Greek ζώνη (zṓnē).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈzo.na/
• Hyphenation: zo‧na

Noun

zona (definite accusative zonayı, plural zonalar)

1. (medicine) shingles

Declension

Xhosa

Etymology 1

From Proto-Nguni .

Pronoun

zoná

1. they, them; class 8 absolute pronoun.

Etymology 2

From Proto-Nguni .

Pronoun

zoná

1. they, them; class 10 absolute pronoun.

Zulu

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /zoːná/

Etymology 1

From Proto-Nguni .

Pronoun

zoná

1. they, them; class 8 absolute pronoun.

Inflection

Etymology 2

From Proto-Nguni .

Pronoun

zoná

1. they, them; class 10 absolute pronoun.

Inflection

References

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