sona
See also: -sona, Sona, sõna, soña, Soňa, sonà, and sõnā
English
Noun
sona (plural sonas)
- (fandom slang) Clipping of fursona.
- 2020, Kathy Merlock Jackson; Kathy Shepherd Stolley; Lisa Lyon Payne, Animals and Ourselves: Essays on Connections and Blurred Boundaries, McFarland, →ISBN:
- Especially interesting in this regard are furries with more than one fursona. […] Consider, for instance, how Muse describes his two fursonas: My two current sonas are a bat and a rabbit.
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Anagrams
- AONs, Naso, Noas, ONAs, Sano, naos, naso-
Atong (India)
Etymology
From Bengali সোনা (sona) or Hindi सोना (sonā), from Sanskrit सुवर्ण (suvarṇa).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sʰona/
Noun
sona (Bengali script সোনা)
- gold
References
- van Breugel, Seino. 2015. Atong-English dictionary, second edition. Available online: https://www.academia.edu/487044/Atong_English_Dictionary.
Catalan
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Central) IPA(key): /ˈsɔ.nə/
- (Valencian) IPA(key): /ˈsɔ.na/
- Rhymes: -ɔna
Verb
sona
- third-person singular present indicative form of sonar
- second-person singular imperative form of sonar
Cebuano
Etymology
From English zone, from Latin zōna, from Ancient Greek ζώνη (zṓnē, “girdle, belt”).
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: so‧na
Noun
sona
- a zone; a given area distinguished on the basis of a particular characteristic, use, restriction, etc.
Chuukese
Verb
sona
- (intransitive) to steal
Crimean Tatar
Noun
sona
- wasp
Galician
Etymology
Attested since 1708. From son (“sound”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈsonɐ]
Noun
sona f (plural sonas)
- rumor; word of mouth
- fame; reputation
References
- “sona” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “sona” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “sona” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
Icelandic
Noun
sona
- indefinite genitive plural of sonur
Irish
Etymology
From Old Irish sona, from Proto-Celtic *sugnāwos (“well grown”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsˠʊn̪ˠə/
Adjective
sona
- happy
Declension
Declension of sona
| Singular | Plural (m/f) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Positive | Masculine | Feminine | (strong noun) | (weak noun) |
| Nominative | sona | shona | sona; shona² | |
| Vocative | shona | sona | ||
| Genitive | sona | sona | sona | |
| Dative | sona; shona¹ | shona | sona; shona² | |
| Comparative | níos sona | |||
| Superlative | is sona | |||
¹ When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
² When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.
Derived terms
- lá breithe sona dhuit (“happy birthday”)
- Nollaig shona (“Merry Christmas”)
Mutation
| Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
| sona | shona after an, tsona | not applicable |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
Italian
Verb
sona
- inflection of sonare:
- third-person singular present indicative
- second-person singular imperative
Anagrams
- Naos, Naso, Sanò, anso, ansò, naso, naso-, sano, sanò
Javanese
Alternative forms
- Carakan: ꦱꦺꦴꦤ
- Roman: sono (nonstandard)
Etymology
Either from Pali soṇa, or directly from Sanskrit श्वन् (śvan)
Noun
sona (kawi sona)
- (literary) dog
- Synonyms: asu, cemera
References
- “[ sona]” in Bausastra Jawa, Yogyakarta: The Linguistic Center of Yogyakarta [Balai Bahasa Provinsi Yogyakarta].
Latin
Verb
sonā
- second-person singular present active imperative of sonō
References
- sona 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)
Lower Sorbian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsɔna/
Noun
sona
- inflection of son:
- genitive/accusative singular
- nominative dual
Northern Ndebele
Etymology
From Proto-Nguni *soná.
Pronoun
soná
- he, she, him, her, it; class 7 absolute pronoun.
Norwegian Bokmål
Alternative forms
- sonen
Noun
sona m or f
- definite feminine singular of sone
Norwegian Nynorsk
Noun
sona f
- definite singular of sone
Old English
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *sānō. Related to Old Norse senn, Gothic 𐍃𐌿𐌽𐍃 (suns).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsoː.nɑ/
Adverb
sōna
- immediately
Descendants
- English: soon
Old Irish
Etymology
From Proto-Celtic *sugnāwos (“well grown”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵneh₃- (“to know”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsona/
Adjective
sona
- happy, fortunate
Usage notes
- The adjectives sona and dona represent a pattern in Old Irish where words in s and so represent happy, good luck, positive denotations and words in d and do represent sad, bad luck, or negative denotations.
Descendants
- Irish: sona
- Manx: sonney
- Scottish Gaelic: sona
Mutation
| Old Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
| sona | ṡona | unchanged |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
Old Norse
Noun
sona
- genitive plural of sonr
Phuthi
Etymology
From Proto-Nguni *soná.
Pronoun
soná
- he, she, him, her, it; class 7 absolute pronoun.
Scottish Gaelic
Etymology
From Old Irish sona, from Proto-Celtic *sognāwos (“well grown”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [sɔnə]
Adjective
sona
- happy
- Tha mi cho sona ri bròig! ― I’m as happy as a shoe!
- fortunate, lucky
Derived terms
- cho sona ri bròg
- co-latha breith sona
Mutation
| Scottish Gaelic mutation | |
|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition |
| sona | shona after "an", t-sona |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | |
Southern Ndebele
Etymology
From Proto-Nguni *soná.
Pronoun
soná
- he, she, him, her, it; class 7 absolute pronoun.
Swazi
Etymology
From Proto-Nguni *soná.
Pronoun
soná
- he, she, him, her, it; class 7 absolute pronoun.
Swedish
Verb
sona (present sonar, preterite sonade, supine sonat, imperative sona)
- to atone (to make reparation for a crime)
Conjugation
Conjugation of sona (weak)
| Active | Passive | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Infinitive | sona | sonas | ||
| Supine | sonat | sonats | ||
| Imperative | sona | — | ||
| Imper. plural1 | sonen | — | ||
| Present | Past | Present | Past | |
| Indicative | sonar | sonade | sonas | sonades |
| Ind. plural1 | sona | sonade | sonas | sonades |
| Subjunctive2 | sone | sonade | sones | sonades |
| Participles | ||||
| Present participle | sonande | |||
| Past participle | sonad | |||
| 1 Archaic. 2 Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs. | ||||
Related terms
- försona
Anagrams
- nosa, onas
Tetum
Etymology 1
From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *saŋelaʀ.
Verb
sona
- to fry
Etymology 2
Maybe the same as above.
Verb
sona
- to puncture, to pierce
- to stab
Turkish
Noun
sona
- dative singular of son
Volapük
Noun
sona
- genitive singular of son
Xhosa
Etymology
From Proto-Nguni *soná.
Pronoun
soná
- he, she, him, her, it; class 7 absolute pronoun.
Zulu
Etymology
From Proto-Nguni *soná.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /soːná/
Pronoun
soná
- he, she, him, her, it; class 7 absolute pronoun.
Inflection
| Stem -so, poss. stem -só | ||
|---|---|---|
| Full form | soná | |
| Locative | kúso | |
| Full form | soná | |
| Locative | kúso | |
| Copulative | yíso | |
| Possessive forms | ||
| Modifier | Substantive | |
| Class 1 | wâso | ówâso |
| Class 2 | bâso | ábâso |
| Class 3 | wâso | ówâso |
| Class 4 | yâso | éyâso |
| Class 5 | lâso | élâso |
| Class 6 | âso | áwâso |
| Class 7 | sâso | ésâso |
| Class 8 | zâso | ézâso |
| Class 9 | yâso | éyâso |
| Class 10 | zâso | ézâso |
| Class 11 | lwâso | ólwâso |
| Class 14 | bâso | óbâso |
| Class 15 | kwâso | ókwâso |
| Class 17 | kwâso | ókwâso |
References
- C. M. Doke; B. W. Vilakazi (1972), “sona”, in Zulu-English Dictionary, →ISBN: “sona (6.3)”