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^[1] (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^[2]:

     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) [ˈni.nə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈni.na]

• Audio:

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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

Declension of nina (ÕS type 17u/sõna, no gradation)
		singular	plural
nominative		nina	ninad
accusative	nom.
	gen.	nina
genitive			ninade
partitive		nina	ninu ninasid
illative		ninna ninasse	ninadesse ninusse
inessive		ninas	ninades ninus
elative		ninast	ninadest ninust
allative		ninale	ninadele ninule
adessive		ninal	ninadel ninul
ablative		ninalt	ninadelt ninult
translative		ninaks	ninadeks ninuks
terminative		ninani	ninadeni
essive		ninana	ninadena
abessive		ninata	ninadeta
comitative		ninaga	ninadega

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)

• Audio (Kenya):

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nina

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

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /niˈna/ [n̪ɪˈn̪a]
• 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 [1st referrent] … at ni [last referrent] (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.

Stem -ni, poss. stem -ínú
Full form	niná
Locative	kíni
Full form	niná
Locative	kíni
Copulative	yíni
Possessive forms
	Modifier	Substantive
Class 1	wênu	ówênu
Class 2	bênu	ábênu
Class 3	wênu	ówênu
Class 4	yênu	éyênu
Class 5	lênu	élênu
Class 6	ênu	áwênu
Class 7	sênu	ésênu
Class 8	zênu	ézênu
Class 9	yênu	éyênu
Class 10	zênu	ézênu
Class 11	lwênu	ólwênu
Class 14	bênu	óbênu
Class 15	kwênu	ókwênu
Class 17	kwênu	ókwênu

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