mena

• IPA^(key): /ˈmena/ [ˈme.na]
• Rhymes: -ena
• Syllabification: me‧na

mena f (plural menes)

1. kind, type, sort, manner, category

   Synonyms: tipu, climen

   • 1876-1895(?), Teodoro Cuesta, Cuentu de xunt'al fueu‎^[3]:

     Una vos cuntaré de bona mena

     I'll tell you one (a story) of good kind

   • 1925, Enrique García Rendueles, La Rueca‎^[4]:

     Un cerru de bona mena

     A hill of good kind

2. lineage, origin
   • 1634-1662(?), Antón de Marirreguera, Hero y Lleandro‎^[5]:

     Home de bon calter y bona mena ,

     Man of good character and good lineage

   • 1891, Teodoro Cuesta, Glorias de Asturias:

     Pedro José Pidal, de bona mena,

     Pedro José Pidal, of good lineage

• “mena” in Diccionario general de la lengua asturiana. Xosé Lluis García Arias. →ISBN.

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *mīna, *mēna, from Gaulish *meina (“mineral, ore”). Doublet of mina (“mine”). First attested in 1185.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈmɛ.nə]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ˈmə.nə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈme.na]

mena f (plural menes)

1. (mineralogy) ore
2. sort, kind, type

   Synonyms: classe, espècie, tipus

3. (nautical) strand (of a rope)
4. (nautical) thickness, size (especially of a rope)

• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ˈmɛ.nə]

mena f (plural menes)

1. (colloquial, Balearic) lie, falsehood

mena m or f by sense (plural menes)

1. (colloquial, Balearic) liar

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈmɛ.nə]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ˈmə.nə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈme.na]

mena

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

• “mena”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “mena”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
• “mena” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “mena” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

mena

1. third-person singular past historic of mener

• amen

mēna

1. romanization of 𐌼𐌴𐌽𐌰

• IPA^(key): /méː.nàː/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [méː.nàː]

mēnā̀ f (possessed form mēnàr̃)

1. dama gazelle

• IPA^(key): /ˈme.na/, /ˈmɛ.na/^[1]
• Rhymes: -ena, -ɛna
• Hyphenation: mé‧na, mè‧na

mena f (plural mene)

1. plot, conspiracy

   Synonyms: complotto, trama, intrigo, macchinazione

• IPA^(key): /ˈme.na/^[1]
• Rhymes: -ena
• Hyphenation: mé‧na

mena

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

• -mane, amen

• IPA^(key): /mɛna/

mena (infinitive kũmena)

1. to dislike, to despise

• kwenda^[1]

(Nouns)

• mũmeni class 1

(Proverbs)

• mũmenwo arutagwo mbakĩ iniũrũ

(Nouns)

• rũmena class 11

• gũthũũra

• Armstrong, Lilias E. (1940). The Phonetic and Tonal Structure of Kikuyu, p. 362. Rep. 1967. (Also in 2018 by Routledge).

mena

1. to grow (as plants do)

• IPA^(key): [ˈmʲæ̌ːn̪ɐ]

mẽna

1. third-person singular present of miñti
2. third-person plural present of miñti

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mena

1. red
2. (dialectal, Bara, figuratively) angry

Colors in Malagasy · volo (layout · text)

fotsy	volombatolalaka ; vatolalaka	mainty ; ngaly
mena ; horàka; menapina ; jaky ; dorehitra	haboka ; heza; fiana ; manja ; lañary	vony ; hasaka
	maitso
		manga
volomparasy ; katso ; lalena; angana	volomparasy ; katso ; lalena	mavokely

Murui Huitoto numbers ^(edit)

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Cardinal: mena     Adverbial: menakaño

Cognates include Minica Huitoto mena and Nüpode Huitoto mena.

• IPA^(key): [ˈmɛna]
• Hyphenation: me‧na

mena

1. two

• Shirley Burtch (1983) Diccionario Huitoto Murui (Tomo I) (Linguistica Peruana No. 20)‎^[6] (in Spanish), Yarinacocha, Peru: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, page 176
• Katarzyna Izabela Wojtylak (2017) A grammar of Murui (Bue): a Witotoan language of Northwest Amazonia.‎^[7], Townsville: James Cook University press (PhD thesis), page 148

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mena f (plural menas)

1. type, sort, kind

   Synonyms: sòrta, espècia

2. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

• Joan de Cantalausa (2006) Diccionari general occitan a partir dels parlars lengadocians‎^[8], 2 edition, →ISBN, page 638.

mena

1. to mean

mēna

2. (transitive with accusative) to harm
3. to hinder, prevent
4. to forbid, prohibit

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *men, from Proto-Tupian *men.^[1][2]

Cognate with Paraguayan Guaraní ména.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɛ̃.na/
• Rhymes: -ɛ̃na
• Hyphenation: me‧na

mena (possessable)

1. husband (male partner in marriage)

   Coordinate term: emirekó (“wife”)

• Nheengatu: mena

• Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “mena”, in Dicionário de tupi antigo: a língua indígena clássica do Brasil [Dictionary of Old Tupi: The Classical Indigenous Language of Brazil] (overall work in Portuguese), São Paulo: Global, →ISBN, page 277, column 1

• mijéna (Ijekavian)

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *měna.

• IPA^(key): /měːna/
• Hyphenation: me‧na

ména f (Cyrillic spelling ме́на)

1. change

   Synonyms: prȍmena, ȉzmena

2. phase
3. lunation

• “mena”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

• IPA^(key): [ˈmena]

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *měna (“change, exchange”).^[1]

mena f (relational adjective menový)

1. (finance) currency

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

mena n

1. genitive singular of meno

• “mena”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025

mena

1. to fold

   Synonym: phutha

• IPA^(key): /ˈmena/ [ˈme.na]
• Rhymes: -ena
• Syllabification: me‧na

mena f (plural menas)

1. ore

mena m or f by sense (plural menas)

1. alternative letter-case form of MENA

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

mena

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

• “mena”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

From Old Swedish mena, from Middle Low German mēnen, meinen (compare Icelandic meina, Danish mene), from Old Saxon mēnian, from Proto-Germanic *mainijaną, from Proto-Indo-European *mein-.

• IPA^(key): [²meːna]

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mena (present menar, preterite menade, supine menat, imperative mena)

1. to mean; to convey, or to want to convey
2. to mean; to be of the opinion that or to have as one's conviction
3. to mean; to have as one's intention

• mening

From Proto-Bantu *màjínà.

mena class 6

1. plural of lina