jena

jen +‎ -a

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jena (accusative singular jenan, plural jenaj, accusative plural jenajn)

1. following (which are about to follow (i.e., be presented) shortly)

jena f (plural jene)

1. (obsolete) Alternative spelling of iena

From Sudanese Arabic جنى (jana).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɟena/, [ˈɟe.na]

jena

1. child
2. baby

• Ian Smith, Morris Timothy Ama (1985) A Dictionary of Juba Arabic & English‎, 1st edition, Juba: The Committee of The Juba Cheshire Home and Centre for Handicapped Children, page 144

jena f (4th declension)

1. yen (monetary unit of Japan)

   piecas jenas ― five yen

   papīra jena ― paper yen (i.e., bills, banknotes)

   jenas kurss ― the exchange rate of the yen

   grāmata maksā piecas jenas ― the book costs five yen

jenà f (plural jènos) stress pattern 2

1. yen (currency of Japan)

Borrowed from Italian iena, from Latin hyaena, from Ancient Greek ὕαινα (húaina).

• IPA^(key): /ˈjɛː.na/

jena f (plural jeni)

1. hyena

Borrowed from French gêner.

a jena (third-person singular present jenează, past participle jenat) 1st conj.

1. to embarrass
2. to discomfort, incommode

   Synonym: incomoda

3. to inconvenience
4. to hinder, impede, be in the way of

   Synonyms: împiedica, stânjeni, stingheri

5. to disturb, trouble

   Synonym: deranja

• jenă

• rușina

From Serbo-Croatian jedan.

• IPA^(key): /jěnâː/

jena f

1. one

• IPA^(key): [jɛˈna]

jena f (m jedyn, n jene)

1. one

• IPA^(key): [hʷena]

jena (possessed jenai)

1. oar or paddle for rowing

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “jena”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎, Lyon
• Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “he:na”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, page 290
• Hall, Katherine (2007) “hēna”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021