Turkish

Proper noun

Tuna

1. A female given name
2. A male given name

Declension

English

Noun

tuna ‎(plural tuna or tunas)

1. Any of several species of fish of the genus Thunnus in the family Scombridae.
2. The edible flesh of the tuna.

Synonyms

• tuna fish, tunny

Derived terms

• yellowfin tuna

Translations

See also

• tuna on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Thunnus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

Etymology 2

Taino

Noun

tuna ‎(plural tunas)

1. The prickly pear, a type of cactus native to Mexico in the genus Opuntia.
2. The fruit of the cactus.

Translations

See also

• xoconostle

Anagrams

• aunt

Akawaio

Etymology

From Proto-Carib *tuna.

Noun

tuna

1. water
2. rain

References

• Journal of the Walter Roth Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, issue 13 (2001), page 12: "(Both Kapon and Pemon groups use tuna to mean "water", but Pemon employ konok which specifically means "rain" - a word which is lacking in the Akawaio language so that tuna is used to refer to rain and to water in general.)"

Apalaí

Noun

tuna

1. water

See also

• paru

References

• Edward Henry Koehn, Sally Sharp Koehn, Vocabulário Básico, Apalaí-Português Dicionário da Língua Apalaí (1995), page 52

Bagua

Noun

tuna

1. water

References

• Aquiles, Pérez, Los puruhuayes, volume 2, page 314 (1970)
• Willem F. H. Adelaar, The Languages of the Andes

Carijona

Noun

tuna

1. (Carijona) water

Synonyms

• túuna (Hianacoto)

References

• Las lenguas indígenas de América y el español de Cuba (1993)

Chaima

Noun

tuna

1. water

References

• Bartolomé Tavera-Acosta, En el sur: (Dialectos indígenas de Venezuela) (1907), page 317

Chamorro

Verb

tuna

1. (transitive) to laud, to praise

Cumanagoto

Noun

tuna

1. water

References

• Bartolomé Tavera-Acosta, En el sur: (Dialectos indígenas de Venezuela) (1907), page 317
• Misiones jesuíticas en la Orinoquía (1625-1767) (1992, José del Rey Fajardo, ‎Universidad Católica del Táchira), page 573: agua Tam. tuna; Map. tuna; Yab. tuna; Chai, tuna; Cum. tuna;

Czech

Noun

tuna f

1. ton (unit of weight)

French

Pronunciation

• Homophones: tunas, tunât

Verb

tuna

1. third-person singular past historic of tuner

Galibi Carib

Etymology

From Proto-Carib *tuna.

Noun

tuna

1. water

References

• The Languages of the Andes (2004, Willem F. H. Adelaar, Pieter C. Muysken)

Hixkaryana

Etymology

From Proto-Carib *tuna.

Noun

tuna

1. water

Usage notes

• This term is obligatorily unpossessed.

References

• Languages of the Amazon (2012, ISBN 0199593566), page 170

Indonesian

Adjective

tuna

1. damaged

Macushi

Noun

tuna

1. water

References

• Bartolomé Tavera-Acosta, En el sur: (Dialectos indígenas de Venezuela) (1907), page 317
• Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald, Languages of the Amazon (2012), page 188

Maori

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈtʉ.na]

Noun

tuna

1. eel

Mapoyo

Noun

tuna

1. water

References

• Bartolomé Tavera-Acosta, En el sur: (Dialectos indígenas de Venezuela) (1907), page 317
• Misiones jesuíticas en la Orinoquía (1625-1767) (1992, José del Rey Fajardo, ‎Universidad Católica del Táchira), page 573: agua Tam. tuna; Map. tuna; Yab. tuna; Chai, tuna; Cum. tuna;

Maquiritari

Etymology

From Proto-Carib *tuna.

Noun

tuna

1. water
2. river, watercourse

References

• Ed. Key, Mary Ritchie and Comrie, Bernard. The Intercontinental Dictionary Series, Carib (De'kwana).

Opón

Noun

tuna

1. water

Synonyms

• tuná-in'i /tuna-iño

References

• Caminos de historia en el Carare-Opón (1999), page 254: Agua . . . Tuna
• Boletín de la Academia Colombiana (1959): en el Opón-Karare: tuna

Panare

Noun

tuna

1. Alternative form of tïna

References

• Bartolomé Tavera-Acosta, En el sur: (Dialectos indígenas de Venezuela) (1907), page 317
• Jean-Paul Dumont, Under the Rainbow: Nature and Supernature among the Panare (2014)
• Marie-Claude Mattei Müller, Yoroko: a Panare shaman's confidences (1992), page 141

Pemon

Etymology

From Proto-Carib *tuna.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tuˈna/^[1]

Noun

tuna

1. water

References

• Journal of the Walter Roth Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, issue 13 (2001), page 12: "(Both Kapon and Pemon groups use tuna to mean "water", but Pemon employ konok which specifically means "rain" - a word which is lacking in the Akawaio language so that tuna is used to refer to rain and to water in general.)"

1. ↑ 2006, Katia Nepomuceno Pessoa, Fonologia Taurepang e comparação preliminar da fonologia de línguas do grupo Pemóng (família Caribe), Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, attachment 7.

• Katia Nepomuceno Pessoa, Fonologia Taurepang e comparação preliminar da fonologia de línguas do grupo Pemóng (família Caribe) (2006), page 139

Portuguese

Etymology 1

From tunar.

Verb

tuna

1. third-person singular present indicative of tunar
2. second-person singular imperative of tunar

Etymology 2

Borrowing from Spanish tuna ‎(“singing group”).

Noun

tuna f (plural tunas)

1. (music) a college singing group, wearing ornate clothes

Related terms

• tuno

Purukotó

Noun

tuná

1. water

References

• Vom Roraima zum Orinoco, volume 4
• Revista andina, volume 11 (1993), page 451

Romanian

Etymology

From Latin tonāre, present active infinitive of tonō, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tenh₂- ‎(“to thunder”).

Verb

a tuna ‎(third-person singular present tună, past participle tunat) 1st conj.

1. to thunder
2. to speak thunderously

Conjugation

Derived terms

• tunare

Related terms

• detuna
• tunet
• tun

See also

• fulgera
• trăsni

Samoan

Noun

tuna

1. eel

Sapará

Noun

tu꞉ná

1. water

References

• Vom Roraima zum Orinoco, volume 4
• Revista andina, volume 11 (1993), page 451

Spanish

Etymology 1

From Taino

Noun

tuna f ‎(plural tunas)

1. prickly pear, the fruit of the nopal cactus (Opuntia, especially Opuntia ficus-indica).
2. nopal

Synonyms

• (prickly pear): higo de tuna
• (nopal): nopal, higuera de tuna, higuera de Indias

Usage notes

• Tuna is a false friend, and does not mean a kind of fish in Spanish. Spanish equivalents are shown above, in the "Translations" section of the English entry tuna.

Etymology 2

From French tune, possibly from roi de Thunes ‎(“king of Tunis”), a title used by leaders of vagabonds.

Noun

tuna f ‎(plural tunas)

1. (Spain) a college singing group, wearing ornate clothes, called in the Americas estudiantina

Descendants

• Portuguese: tuna

Tamanaku

Noun

tuna

1. water

References

• Bartolomé Tavera-Acosta, En el sur: (Dialectos indígenas de Venezuela) (1907), page 316-7
• Misiones jesuíticas en la Orinoquía (1625-1767) (1992, José del Rey Fajardo, ‎Universidad Católica del Táchira), page 573: agua Tam. tuna; Map. tuna; Yab. tuna; Chai, tuna; Cum. tuna;

Wayana

Noun

tuna

1. water

References

• Sergio Meira, Primeras observaciones sobre la lengua yukpa (2005) (mentions "wayana tuna he wai" in notes)

Wayumará

Noun

tuná

1. water

References

• Vom Roraima zum Orinoco, volume 4
• Revista andina, volume 11 (1993), page 451

Yabarana

Noun

tuna

1. water

References

• Bartolomé Tavera-Acosta, En el sur: (Dialectos indígenas de Venezuela) (1907), page 317
• Misiones jesuíticas en la Orinoquía (1625-1767) (1992, José del Rey Fajardo, ‎Universidad Católica del Táchira), page 573: agua Tam. tuna; Map. tuna; Yab. tuna; Chai, tuna; Cum. tuna;