English

Proper noun

Donna

1. A female given name.
   • 1914 Mary McNeil Fenollosa, Ariadne of Allan Water, Burt, 1914, page 30:

     "Did you ever know a lady named Miss May-rant? With a funny sort of first name, like Donna? Yes, that is it - Miss Donna May-rant."

   • 1958 Ritchie Valens Donna ( a song) :

     I had a girl / Donna was her name. / Since she left me / I've never been the same.

Translations

Usage notes

• Popular in the U.S.A. in the 1940s and the 1950s, and in the U.K. in the 1970s and the 1980s.

Anagrams

• Nando
• nonad

Plautdietsch

Noun

Donna

1. thunder

See also

• German Low German: Donner

English

Noun

donna ‎(plural donnas)

1. A lady, especially a noblewoman; the title given to a lady in Italy.
   • 1837, Thomas Tod Stoddart, Angling reminiscences (page 65)

     What are the songs of Italy, sung as they are by the donnas of the scenic board, but a replication of squalls and quavers, infinitely more annoying than the gibberish of crones […]

   • 2005, Burton D. Fisher, Mozart's Don Giovanni, page 22

     In Don Giovanni's three female characters, the diverse spectrum of womanhood is rendered complete: the great opera seria character of the avenging Donna Anna, the sentimental and spurned Donna Elvira, and the crafty but sympathetic peasant girl Zerlina.

Synonyms

• (lady): lady, madam, mistress, noblewoman

Coordinate terms

• (lady): don

Translations

Finnish

Noun

donna

1. (slang) woman

Declension

Anagrams

• nadon

French

Verb

donna

1. third-person singular past historic of donner

Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈd̪ˠɔn̪ˠə/, /ˈd̪ˠʊn̪ˠə/

Adjective

donna

1. nominative and vocative and dative and strong genitive plural of donn

Mutation

Italian

Etymology

From Late Latin domna, shortened variant of Latin domina ‎(“lady, mistress of an estate or household”), from dominus ‎(“master”), from domus ‎(“home”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈdɔnna]
• Hyphenation: dòn‧na

Noun

donna f ‎(plural donne)

1. (archaic) lady
2. woman
3. wife
4. (card games, chess) queen
5. actress

Synonyms

• (lady): signora, dama
• (wife): moglie
• (queen): regina
• (actress): attrice

Antonyms

• ragazza
• uomo

Related terms

• donnacchera
• donnaiuolo
• donnetta
• donnicciuola
• donnina
• donnesco
• gentildonna
• madonna
• prima donna

See also

Chess pieces in Italian · pezzi degli scacchi (layout · text)
re	regina, donna	torre	alfiere	cavallo	pedone

Playing cards in Italian · carte da gioco (layout · text)
asso	due	tre	quattro	cinque	sei	sette
otto	nove	dieci	fante	donna, regina	re	jolly, joker, matta

• bambina
• femmina
• ragazza
• signora

Anagrams

• danno, dannò

Japanese

Romanization

donna

1. rōmaji reading of どんな