tena
- anyflyinginsect
tena
- boat
tena
- correct
- Antonym:jala
- Allahverdi Verdizade (2019), “tena”, inLamboya word list[1], Leiden: LexiRumah
tena (Lontara spellingᨈᨙᨊ)
- not (clause negator)
- Tena nakulle a'gio'.[1] ―He cannot move.
tena (Lontara spellingᨈᨙᨊ)
- (negative existential) there is not; to have not
- Tena tau ja'dala' anne ri kamponga.[2] ―There is no evil person in this village.
- Tena doekku. ―I don't have money. (literally, “There is no money of mine.”)
- ^Aburaerah Arief (1995),Kamus Makassar–Indonesia, Ujung Pandang: Yayaan Perguruan Islam Kapita, page117.
- ^Aburaerah Arief (1995),Kamus Makassar–Indonesia, Ujung Pandang: Yayaan Perguruan Islam Kapita, page138.
FromArabicثَنَى(ṯanā).
tena (imperfectjitni,past participlemitni,verbal nountini)
- tofold
FromOld Norseþjóna,þéna.
tena (present tensetener,past tensetente,past participletent,passive infinitivetenast,present participletenande,imperativeten)
- toearn
Om sumaren kan deitena mykje pengar.- During the summer, they canearn a lot of money.
- toserve
Hantente landet sitt.- Heserved his country.
- “tena” inThe Nynorsk Dictionary.
Alternative scripts
- 𑀢𑁂𑀦(Brahmi script)
- तेन(Devanagari script)
- তেন(Bengali script)
- තෙන(Sinhalese script)
- တေန orတေၼ(Burmese script)
- เตน orเตนะ(Thai script)
- ᨲᩮᨶ(Tai Tham script)
- ເຕນ orເຕນະ(Lao script)
- តេន(Khmer script)
- 𑄖𑄬𑄚(Chakma script)
tena
- there
2006,The First Book in the Suttanta-Pitaka: Dīgha-Nikāya (I)[2], page88:11. අථ ඛො රාජා මාගධො අජාතසත්තු වෙදෙහිපුත්තො යාවතිකා නාගස්ස භූමි නාගෙන ගන්ත්වා නාගා පච්චොරොහිත්වා පත්තිකො ‘ව යෙන මණ්ඩලමාළස්ස ද්වාරංතෙනුපසඞ්කමි.- 11. atha kho rājā māgadho ajātasattu vedehiputto yāvatikā nāgassa bhūmi nāgena gantvā nāgā paccorohitvā pattiko ’va yena maṇḍalamāḷassa dvāraṃtenupasaṅkami.
- 11. And then indeed the king of Magadha, Ajatashatru, son of the woman from Videha, went by elephant as far as there was room for an elephant, then dismounted from the elephant, and then went on only on footto where the door of the pavilion was.
tena
- (demonstrative)masculine/neuterinstrumentalsingular ofta(“that”)
tena
- instrumentalsingular ofta(“him, it, that”)
tena f (pluraltenas)
- a type ofpepper.
CompareEgyptian Arabicتاني (tāni,[tɛːnɪ], “again”), fromArabicثانٍ(ṯānin,“second”). The similarity may be coincidental, however.
tena
- again
Nitacheza mpira wa miguutena- I will play footballagain
- moreover
- (in a negative sentence)again,anymore
Sisi sio marafikitena- We are not friendsanymore
Sijuitena- I don't knowanymore
tena
- andalso
1973, Mohammed S. Abdulla,Duniani kuna watu, page 3:[…] si chini ya miaka thelathini, mwembambatena mrefu, hadharani wa rangi, kavaa koti na suruali namna moja, rangi ya kijivujivu, […]- […] not less than thirty years old, thinand tall, fair-skinned, wearing grey jacket and pants of a kind, […]
