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kana

Pronunciation: /kaˈnaʔ/

“kana” is a Tagalog word. Its 10 meanings in English:

noun

  1. deception; falsity
  2. action or work
  3. exertion; effort; deed; accomplishment
  4. application; actualization; appropriation; usage for some purpose
  5. fighting with the fists
  6. deception or falsification of the weight of scales
  7. imposition of a penalty or payment
  8. menarche; a woman's first menstruation

adjective

  1. fixed; set in place
  2. set as a trap; ready; readied (as of a gun)

Etymology

Borrowed from Malay kena (“to contact; to have to do, to need to do; to be precise; deceived”), from Old Malay knā, from Proto-Austronesian *kəNa (“be ensnared, caught in a trap; suffer, undergo, be struck by something; be entrapped or deceived; hit the mark, be ‘on target’, correct, right, true”). Compare Ilocano kenna.

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