ngana

ngana (uncountable)

1. Obsolete spelling of nagana.
   • 1908 March 12, John William Watson Stephens, “Sleeping Sickness”, in Nature, volume 77, pages 440–442:

     It is perhaps an exaggeration to say that we know now no more about tsetse-flies than we did when Bruce discovered that Gl. morsitans transmitted the trypanosome (T. brucei) of ngana […]

• Angan, nanga, Anang, ganna

• IPA^(key): /ŋana/

ngana

1. room
2. grass windbreak
3. grass hut

• (2017) Giacon J Gamilaraay-Yuwaalaraay Dictionary Supplement

From Proto-Paman *ngana, from Proto-Pama-Maric *ngana, from Proto-Pama-Nyungan *ngana.

• IPA^(key): /ŋana/

ngana

1. (coastal dialect) we: first person plural nominative pronoun

Most modern speakers use the inland form nganhdhaan, even if they otherwise use coastal words.

• nganhdhaan (inland dialect)

• Barry Alpher Proto-Pama-Nyungan etyma, in Australian Languages: Classification and the Comparative Method, edited by Claire Bowern and Harold Koch (Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2004)
• Haviland, John B. 1979. ‘Guugu Yimidhirr Sketch Grammar’. R. M. W. Dixon, B. Blake (eds.) Handbook of Australian Languages, Vol I.

ngana

1. child

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈŋana/ [ˈŋa.na]
• Syllabification: nga‧na

Clipping of menurut ngana? (“you think?”), from menurut (“according to”) + ngana (“you (Manado)”). Reanalyzed as a second-person pronoun for specific use in sarcastic and rhetorical responses.

ngana

1. (colloquial, sarcastic) you; yourself [mid-2010s?]
   • 2017, Sofi Meloni, Cinder Ana on Duty, Jakarta: Gramedia Pustaka Utama, →ISBN, page 110:

     Aku membentuk dua kerucut dengan tanganku dan menggabungkannya untuk menggambarkan yang kumaksud.
     "Maksud ngana ciuman?"

     I made two finger purses with my palms and combined them to illustrate what I meant.
     "(Duh,) you mean (they were) kissing?"

   • 2021, Stefani Bella, Gak Capek Dituntut Mulu? [Aren't You Tired of Being Under Pressure?], Yogyakarta: Gradien Mediatama, →ISBN, page 20:

     Ya ngana pikir pemirsa, kalau udah tua hidup bisa ongkang-ongkang kaki aja?

     Well, think about it yourself, readers, would you spend old age idling around?

From Manado Malay ngana (“you”).

ngana

1. (Manado) you (singular)

• na

From North Moluccan Malay ngana, from Ternate ngana.

ngana

1. you (singular)

• nga

From Ternate ngana.

• IPA^(key): /ˈŋana/
• Hyphenation: nga‧na

ngana

1. (casual) you, your (singular)

   Torang tadi pigi di ngana pe skola.

   We went to your school.

• ngoni (“you/y'all, your (plural)”)

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• IPA^(key): [ˈŋa.na]

ngana (subject clitic no, possessive prefix ni, Jawi ڠان)

1. second-person singular pronoun, you

• Manado Malay: ngana
• North Moluccan Malay: ngana

• Frederik Sigismund Alexander de Clercq (1890) Bijdragen tot de kennis der Residentie Ternate, E.J. Brill
• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh