nono
التعريفات والمعاني
== English ==
=== Noun ===
nono (plural nonos)
Alternative spelling of no-no.
=== Anagrams ===
Noon, noon
== Cimbrian ==
=== Alternative forms ===
nóono
=== Etymology ===
From Venetan nono, from Late Latin nonnus (“monk; old person”).
=== Noun ===
nono m (plural non)
(Luserna) grandfather
Synonym: èno
==== Coordinate terms ====
nona
=== References ===
Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Luserna / Lusérn: Le nostre parole / Ünsarne börtar / Unsere Wörter [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien
== French ==
=== Pronunciation ===
IPA(key): /nɔ.no/, /no.no/
=== Noun ===
nono m (plural nonos, feminine nounoune)
(Quebec) fool, idiot
== Friulian ==
=== Etymology ===
Compare Italian nonno, Venetan nono. Ultimately from Latin nonnus.
=== Noun ===
nono m (plural nonos)
grandfather
==== Synonyms ====
von
==== Related terms ====
none
== Galician ==
=== Alternative forms ===
9º m, 9ª f (abbreviation)
=== Etymology ===
From Latin novēnus.
=== Adjective ===
nono (feminine nona, masculine plural nonos, feminine plural nonas)
ninth
Synonym: noveno
=== Noun ===
nono m (plural nonos)
ninth
Synonym: noveno
==== Related terms ====
nove
=== Contraction ===
nono m (feminine nona, masculine plural nonos, feminine plural nonas)
contraction of non + o, literally “not it/him”
=== Further reading ===
“nono”, in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (in Galician), 2014–2026
“nono”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2026
“nono” in DIGALEGO - Dicionario de Galego, Ir Indo 2004, Xunta de Galicia 2013.
== Garo ==
=== Noun ===
nono
younger sister
==== Synonyms ====
nogipa (formal)
no
== Hausa ==
=== Etymology ===
An areal word, perhaps from a Chadic root *nVnV- ("mother"), but also perhaps from Niger-Congo or cognate with Cushitic. Compare Sidamo unuuna (“breast”), Afar angu (“breast”), Saho angu (“breast”), Jiiddu eenge (“breast”), and Iraqw isaangw (“nipple, breast”). thus from proto afro asiatic
=== Pronunciation ===
IPA(key): /nóː.nòː/
(Standard Kano Hausa) IPA(key): [nóː.nòː]
=== Noun ===
nōnṑ m (possessed form nōnòn)
milk
a woman's breast
== Hawaiian ==
=== Pronunciation ===
IPA(key): /ˈno.no/
=== Etymology 1 ===
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
==== Verb ====
nono(stative)
red-faced, rosy-cheeked
sunburned
===== Derived terms =====
nono ʻula (“to blush”)
pūnono (“gorgeously red”)
=== Etymology 2 ===
From Proto-Polynesian *ŋoŋo (“to suck liquid from a container”). Cognate with Māori ngongo (“suck out”).
==== Verb ====
nono(stative)
holey, perforated, moth-eaten
oozing, seeping
permeable
===== Derived terms =====
hānono (“full of holes”)
kānono (“infiltrate”, verb)
=== Further reading ===
nono in Combined Hawaiian Dictionary, at trussel2.com.
== Istriot ==
=== Etymology ===
From Latin nonnus.
=== Noun ===
nono m
grandfather
== Italian ==
=== Etymology ===
From Latin nōnus.
=== Pronunciation ===
IPA(key): /ˈnɔ.no/
Rhymes: -ɔno
Hyphenation: nò‧no
=== Adjective ===
nono (feminine nona, masculine plural noni, feminine plural none)
(ordinal number) ninth
=== Noun ===
nono m (plural noni)
(fractional number) ninth
== Kari'na ==
=== Etymology ===
From Proto-Cariban *nono; compare Apalaí nono, Trió nono, Panare ano, Akawaio non, Macushi non, Pemon nono, Ye'kwana nono.
=== Pronunciation ===
IPA(key): [noːno]
=== Noun ===
nono (possessed yinonory)
earth, soil
land
=== References ===
Courtz, Hendrik (2008), A Carib grammar and dictionary[2], Toronto: Magoria Books, →ISBN, page 325
Ahlbrinck, Willem (1931), “nono”, in Encyclopaedie der Karaïben, Amsterdam: Koninklijke Akademie van Wetenschappen, page 324; republished as Willem Ahlbrinck, Doude van Herwijnen, transl., L'Encyclopédie des Caraïbes[3], Paris, 1956, page 317
== Ladino ==
=== Etymology ===
From Late Latin nonno.
=== Noun ===
nono m
grandfather
Synonyms: papú, granpapa, avuelo
==== Coordinate terms ====
(gender): nona
== Latin ==
=== Numeral ===
nōnō
dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of nōnus
=== References ===
“nono”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
== Malagasy ==
=== Etymology ===
From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *nunuh, from Proto-Austronesian *nunuh. Compare Pazeh nunuh and Tsou nunʼu.
=== Noun ===
nono
breast
==== Synonyms ====
tratra
==== Derived terms ====
minono
mampinono
fampinonoana
== Mòcheno ==
=== Etymology ===
From Italian nonno (“grandfather”), from Latin nonnus (“monk; tutor; old person”).
=== Noun ===
nono m
grandfather
Coordinate term: nu'na
=== References ===
“nono” in Cimbrian, Ladin, Mòcheno: Getting to know 3 peoples. 2015. Servizio minoranze linguistiche locali della Provincia autonoma di Trento, Trento, Italy.
== Nias ==
=== Noun ===
nono
mutated form of ono (“child”)
== Portuguese ==
=== Pronunciation ===
Hyphenation: no‧no
=== Etymology 1 ===
From Old Galician-Portuguese nono, from Latin nōnus.
==== Adjective ====
nono (feminine nona, masculine plural nonos, feminine plural nonas)
(ordinal number) ninth
Synonym: noveno
==== Noun ====
nono m (plural nonos)
(fractional number) ninth (one of nine parts of a whole)
=== Etymology 2 ===
Borrowed from Venetan nono (“grandfather”), from Latin nonnus (“monk; tutor; old person”).
==== Noun ====
nono m (plural nonos, feminine nona, feminine plural nonas)
(South Brazil, familiar) grandfather
=== Further reading ===
“nono”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
“nono”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026
== Spanish ==
=== Etymology ===
From Latin nonus.
=== Pronunciation ===
IPA(key): /ˈnono/ [ˈno.no]
Rhymes: -ono
Syllabification: no‧no
=== Adjective ===
nono (feminine nona, masculine plural nonos, feminine plural nonas)
(rare) ninth
Synonym: noveno
=== Noun ===
nono m (plural nonos)
(fractional number, rare) ninth
=== Further reading ===
“nono”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025
== Swahili ==
=== Pronunciation ===
=== Adjective ===
-nono (declinable)
fat
==== Usage notes ====
Only used of animals; for people, use -nene.
==== Declension ====
== Tauya ==
=== Noun ===
nono
child
=== References ===
Lorna MacDonald, A Grammar of Tauya
== Trió ==
=== Etymology ===
From Proto-Cariban *nono. Compare Ye'kwana nono, Macushi non, Panare ano.
=== Noun ===
nono
earth, ground
== Venetan ==
=== Etymology ===
From Late Latin nonnus. Cognate with Italian nonno.
=== Noun ===
nono m (plural noni)
grandfather
==== Coordinate terms ====
nona
==== Descendants ====
→ Cimbrian: nono, nóono
→ Portuguese: nono
== Ye'kwana ==
=== Etymology ===
From Proto-Cariban *nono.
=== Pronunciation ===
IPA(key): [nono]
=== Noun ===
nono (possessed nonodü)
earth, soil
earth, world beneath the sky
dry land
==== Derived terms ====
=== References ===
Cáceres, Natalia (2011), “nono”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana[4], Lyon
Hall, Katherine Lee (1988), The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, page 289
Hall, Katherine (2007), “nono”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series[5], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
Lauer, Matthew Taylor (2005), Fertility in Amazonia: Indigenous Concepts of the Human Reproductive Process Among the Ye’kwana of Southern Venezuela[6], Santa Barbara: University of California, pages 187, 189: “nono”