sona

sona (plural sonas)

1. (fandom slang) Clipping of fursona.
   • 2020, Kathy Merlock Jackson; Kathy Shepherd Stolley; Lisa Lyon Payne, Animals and Ourselves: Essays on Connections and Blurred Boundaries, McFarland, →ISBN:

     Especially interesting in this regard are furries with more than one fursona. […] Consider, for instance, how Muse describes his two fursonas: My two current sonas are a bat and a rabbit.

• AONs, Naso, Noas, ONAs, Sano, naos, naso-

From Bengali সোনা (sona) or Hindi सोना (sonā), from Sanskrit सुवर्ण (suvarṇa).

• IPA^(key): /sʰona/

sona (Bengali script সোনা)

1. gold

• van Breugel, Seino. 2015. Atong-English dictionary, second edition. Available online: https://www.academia.edu/487044/Atong_English_Dictionary.

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /ˈsɔ.nə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈsɔ.na/
• Rhymes: -ɔna

sona

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

From English zone, from Latin zōna, from Ancient Greek ζώνη (zṓnē, “girdle, belt”).

• Hyphenation: so‧na

sona

1. a zone; a given area distinguished on the basis of a particular characteristic, use, restriction, etc.

sona

1. (intransitive) to steal

sona

1. wasp

Attested since 1708. From son (“sound”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈsonɐ]

sona f (plural sonas)

1. rumor; word of mouth
2. fame; reputation

• “sona” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “sona” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “sona” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

sona

1. indefinite genitive plural of sonur

From Old Irish sona, from Proto-Celtic *sugnāwos (“well grown”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈsˠʊn̪ˠə/

sona

1. happy

• lá breithe sona dhuit (“happy birthday”)
• Nollaig shona (“Merry Christmas”)

sona

1. inflection of sonare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• Naos, Naso, Sanò, anso, ansò, naso, naso-, sano, sanò

• Carakan: ꦱꦺꦴꦤ
• Roman: sono (nonstandard)

Either from Pali soṇa, or directly from Sanskrit श्वन् (śvan)

sona (kawi sona)

1. (literary) dog

   Synonyms: asu, cemera

• “[ sona]” in Bausastra Jawa, Yogyakarta: The Linguistic Center of Yogyakarta [Balai Bahasa Provinsi Yogyakarta].

sonā

1. second-person singular present active imperative of sonō

• sona in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɔna/

sona

1. inflection of son:
   1. genitive/accusative singular
   2. nominative dual

From Proto-Nguni *soná.

soná

1. he, she, him, her, it; class 7 absolute pronoun.

• sonen

sona m or f

1. definite feminine singular of sone

sona f

1. definite singular of sone

From Proto-West Germanic *sānō. Related to Old Norse senn, Gothic 𐍃𐌿𐌽𐍃 (suns).

• IPA^(key): /ˈsoː.nɑ/

sōna

1. immediately

• English: soon

From Proto-Celtic *sugnāwos (“well grown”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵneh₃- (“to know”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈsona/

sona

1. happy, fortunate

• The adjectives sona and dona represent a pattern in Old Irish where words in s and so represent happy, good luck, positive denotations and words in d and do represent sad, bad luck, or negative denotations.

• Irish: sona
• Manx: sonney
• Scottish Gaelic: sona

sona

1. genitive plural of sonr

From Proto-Nguni *soná.

soná

1. he, she, him, her, it; class 7 absolute pronoun.

From Old Irish sona, from Proto-Celtic *sognāwos (“well grown”).

• IPA^(key): [sɔnə]

sona

1. happy

   Tha mi cho sona ri bròig! ― I’m as happy as a shoe!

2. fortunate, lucky

• cho sona ri bròg
• co-latha breith sona

From Proto-Nguni *soná.

soná

1. he, she, him, her, it; class 7 absolute pronoun.

From Proto-Nguni *soná.

soná

1. he, she, him, her, it; class 7 absolute pronoun.

sona (present sonar, preterite sonade, supine sonat, imperative sona)

1. to atone (to make reparation for a crime)

• försona

• nosa, onas

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *saŋelaʀ.

sona

1. to fry

Maybe the same as above.

sona

1. to puncture, to pierce
2. to stab

sona

1. dative singular of son

sona

1. genitive singular of son

From Proto-Nguni *soná.

soná

1. he, she, him, her, it; class 7 absolute pronoun.

From Proto-Nguni *soná.

• IPA^(key): /soːná/

soná

1. he, she, him, her, it; class 7 absolute pronoun.

• C. M. Doke; B. W. Vilakazi (1972), “sona”, in Zulu-English Dictionary, →ISBN: “sona (6.3)”