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.

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

From Bengali সোনা (śōna) or Hindi सोना (sonā), from Sanskrit ��ुवर्ण (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.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈsɔ.nə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈsɔ.na]
• Rhymes: -ɔna

sona

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

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 (accusative [please provide], plural [please provide])

1. wasp

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

• IPA^(key): [ˈsonɐ]

sona f (plural sonas)

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

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “sona”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “sona”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “sona”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

sona

1. indefinite genitive plural of sonur

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

• (Munster) IPA^(key): /ˈsˠɔn̪ˠə/^[1], /ˈsˠɞn̪ˠə/^[2]
• (Connacht) IPA^(key): /ˈsˠʊnˠə/, /ˈsˠʊn̪ˠə/

sona

1. happy

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

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “sona”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

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

sona

1. Romanization of ꦱꦺꦴꦤ

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, straightaway
   • late 10th century, Ælfric, "Saint Sebastian, Martyr"

     Hwæt ða nicostratus wearð swiðe afyrht þa ða he þæt wundor ge-seah on his wife gedon and feol adune sona to sebastianes fotum...

     Then Nicostratus was greatly afraid, when he saw the miracle wrought on his wife, and immediately fell down at Sebastian's feet,...

• samtinges

• 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 or the like)
2. (by extension) to pay (face consequences)

   Han ska få sona sina brott!

   He will pay for his crimes!

• försona

• sona in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• sona in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• sona in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

• 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.

Stem -so, poss. stem -só
Full form	soná
Locative	kúso
Full form	soná
Locative	kúso
Copulative	yíso
Possessive forms
	Modifier	Substantive
Class 1	wâso	ówâso
Class 2	bâso	ábâso
Class 3	wâso	ówâso
Class 4	yâso	éyâso
Class 5	lâso	élâso
Class 6	âso	áwâso
Class 7	sâso	ésâso
Class 8	zâso	ézâso
Class 9	yâso	éyâso
Class 10	zâso	ézâso
Class 11	lwâso	ólwâso
Class 14	bâso	óbâso
Class 15	kwâso	ókwâso
Class 17	kwâso	ókwâso

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