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Japanese
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| 【鼻】3
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- nose
- (elephant or elephant seal) trunk
- first-person personal male pronoun; I, me
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(This term, はな (hana), is the hiragana spelling of the above terms.)
For a list of all kanji read as はな, see Category:Japanese kanji read as はな.)
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(The following entries are uncreated: 端, 英.)
Okinawan
Etymology 1
From Proto-Japonic *pana (“flower”).
Noun
はな (hana)
- 花: flower
Etymology 2
From Proto-Japonic *pana (“nose”).
Noun
はな (hana)
- 鼻: nose
Yonaguni
Etymology 1
From Proto-Japonic *pana (“nose”).
Pronunciation
- (Sonai) IPA(key): (tone class A)
Noun
はな (hana)
- 鼻: nose
- はな かみ
- hana kami
- Blow your nose.
- Synonym: はなぶる (hanaburu)
Derived terms
- きばな (kibana, “a continuous wooden bridle to stick through a cow's nose”)
- はないてぃ (hanaiti, “breath through the nose”)
- はなく゚い (hana'ngui, “nasal sound”)
- はなでぃ (hanadi, “nosebleed”)
- はなぶてぃ (hanabuti, “snore”)
- はなぶる (hanaburu, “nose”)
- はなぶるぬつー (hanaburunutsū, “mucus”)
- はなみん (hanamin, “mucus, snot”)
- はなんき (hananki, “a cold”)
- はなんきかがい (hananki, “blowing a nose during a cold”)
- はなんむん (hananmun, “to wipe snot”)
Etymology 2
From Proto-Japonic *pana (“flower”).
Pronunciation
- (Sonai) IPA(key): (tone class B)
Noun
はな (hana)
- 花: flower
- うるむしってぃ ないか゚しや どぅゆ、 でぃく゚いか゚ きびさる つーはな あがはな さがん
- urumushitti nai'ngashiya duyu, di'ngui'nga kibisaru tsūhana agahana sagan
- When spring comes, the easter lilies and Indian coral trees make the pretty white (flowers) and crimson flowers bloom.
- (by extension) flowers for a Buddhist alter
- とぅぐぬ はなや からしや ならぬんど
- tugunu hanaya karashiya naranundo
- I cannot let those flowers (for the Buddhist priest) die.
Derived terms
- いたはなうりしだり (itahanaurishidari, “towel to weave board flowers”)
- いちちんばな (ichichinbana, “four floral patterns”)
- だちんばな (dachinbana, “eight floral patterns”)
- ちぬはな (chinuhana, “flame”)
- ばたぬはな (batanuhana, “cotton flower”)
- はなうりしだり (hanaurishidari, “towel to weave flowers”)
- はなぐみ (hanagumi, “a multi-tiered serving of rice offered to a god or Buddha”)
- はなずみしだり (hanazumishidari, “towel to dry flowers”)
- はなひや (hanahiya, “flower warp controller”)
- まいぬはな (mainuhana, “flower of a rice plant”)
References
- Hōsei Daigaku Okinawa Bunka Kenkyūjo (法政大学沖縄文化研究所) (1987) “琉球の方言１１巻：八重山・与那国島 [Ryukyuan Dialects 11: Yonaguni-jima, Yaeyama]”, in Ryūkyū no Hōgen (琉球の方言), volume 11, →DOI, pages 01-359
- Yonaguni Hōgen Jiten Henshū I'inkai (与那国方言辞典編集委員会) (2021) どぅなんむぬい辞典 [Dunanmunui Dictionary], Yonaguni (与那国町): Yonaguni-chō Kyōiku I'inkai (与那国町教育委員会), page 257