cana

Inherited from Latin canna.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈka.nə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈka.na]

cana f (plural canes)

1. archaic form of canya
2. (historical) unit of length of eight pams (“handspans”); ~1.60m

• acanar
• trescanar

• canya

• “cana” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
• “cana”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025

cana

1. alternative spelling of canah

• IPA^(key): /ˈkana/
• Rhymes: -ana
• Syllabification: ca‧na

Inherited from Latin canna.

cana f (plural canas)

1. reed, cane
2. fishing rod

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese cãa, from Latin cāna

cana f (plural canas)

1. grey hair

• Valeš, Miroslav (2021), Diccionariu de A Fala: lagarteiru, mañegu, valverdeñu (web)‎^[2], 2nd edition, Minde, Portugal: CIDLeS, published 2022, →ISBN

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese cana, from Latin canna, borrowed from Ancient Greek κᾰ́ννᾱ (kắnnā), borrowed from Akkadian qanûm.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkana/ [ˈkɑ.nɐ]
• Rhymes: -ana

cana f (plural canas)

1. (botany) cane, reed (any plant with a fibrous, elongated stalk, such as a sugarcane or bamboo)
   1. the stem of such plants
   2. (botany) giant reed (Arundo donax)
   3. (botany) sugarcane (Saccharum officinarum, tropical grass from which sugar is extracted)

      Synonym: cana de azucre

   4. fishing rod

      Synonym: cana de pescar

   5. a slender twig

      Synonym: cimbra

   6. (nautical) tiller
   7. shaft
   8. shaft of a boot
   9. long bone and its bone marrow

• canavela

From Latin canus.

• IPA^(key): [ˈkanɐ]

cana f (plural canas)

1. white or gray hair

cana

1. feminine singular of cano

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “cana”, 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), “cana”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “cana”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

• IPA^(key): /ˈkanˠə/

From Middle Irish cana, from Proto-Celtic *kanawū (compare Welsh cenau).

cana m (genitive singular canann)

1. cub, whelp
2. bardic poet of the fourth order

• (young animal): coileán, samhairle
• (poet): ánradh (“second-order bard”), clí (“third-order bard”)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

cana

1. present subjunctive of can

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “cana”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 cana”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

• IPA^(key): /ˈka.na/
• Rhymes: -ana
• Hyphenation: cà‧na

Clipping of canapa (“hemp”).

cana f (plural cane)

1. (rare) marijuana cigarette, joint

   Synonym: spinello

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

cana

1. feminine singular of cano

• ANCA, anca, naca

cāna

1. inflection of cānus:
   1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
   2. nominative/vocative/accusative neuter plural

cānā

1. ablative feminine singular of cānus

• "cana", 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)
• “cana”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
• “cana”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly

From Proto-Celtic *kanawū (compare Welsh cenau).

• IPA^(key): /ˈkanə/

cana m

1. cub

   Synonym: cuilén

2. puppy

   Synonym: cuilén

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

• Scottish Gaelic: cana
• Irish: cana

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 cana”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

• canna

Inherited from Latin canna, borrowed from Ancient Greek κᾰ́ννᾱ (kắnnā), borrowed from Akkadian qanûm.

cana f (plural canas)

1. cane; reed
2. twig
   • c1350, Kelvin M. Parker (ed.), Historia Troyana. Santiago: Instituto Padre Sarmiento, page 194:

     outros que nõ an boca senõ tã estreyta [como] hũa cana de avelão

     and others that almost have no mouth, but one so narrow as a hazel twig

• Galician: cana
• Portuguese: cana (see there for further descendants)

cana

1. feminine of cano

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “cana”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “cana”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

• IPA^(key): (10^th–15^th CE) /t͡sʲana/
• IPA^(key): (15^th CE) /t͡sʲana/

cana f

1. alternative form of cena

• canna (obsolete)

• Rhymes: (Portugal) -ɐnɐ, (Brazil) -ɐ̃nɐ
• Hyphenation: ca‧na

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese cana, from Latin canna, borrowed from Ancient Greek κᾰ́ννᾱ (kắnnā), borrowed from Akkadian qanûm.

cana f (plural canas)

1. cane, reed (any plant with a fibrous, elongated stalk, such as a sugarcane or bamboo)
2. Ellipsis of cana-de-açúcar (“sugar cane”)
3. canna (any plant of the genus Canna)
4. fishing pole

   Synonym: cana de pesca

5. cane; walking stick

   Synonym: bengala

6. (Brazil, metonymic, informal) cachaça (Brazilian rum made of sugarcane)

   Synonyms: aguardente, aguardente de cana, cachaça, (Rio Grande do Sul) canha, pinga

• → Língua Geral Amazônica: kana
  • Nheengatu: kana

Unknown, but compare Rioplatense Spanish cana.

cana f (plural canas) (Brazil, slang)

1. jail; prison

   Synonyms: cadeia, prisão, (Brazil, slang) xadrez

2. (uncountable) police; the heat

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:polícia

   • 1981, Fernando Pettinati, Antônio Camano, 0:35 from the start, in Feira da Fruta (VHS), spoken by Coringa (Fernando Pettinati), São Paulo, reddubing of He Meets His Match, The Grisly Ghoul:

     A cana, filho dumas putas, como é que me descobriram aqui?!

     The heat, sonsabitches, how did they find me here?!

cana m or f by sense (plural canas)

1. (Brazil, slang) cop; police officer

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:policial

   • 2008, Pacificadores, “Eu Queria Mudar” (0:14 from the start) ft. Misael, Brasília:

     Eu queria mudar, eu queria mudar / O meu mundo me ensinou a ser assim / Fazer a correria e os cana vim^[sic] atrás de mim

     I wanted to change, I wanted to change. My world taught me to be like this, to do my hustle and the cops come after me.

• IPA^(key): [ˈkana]

cana f

1. definite nominative/accusative singular of cană

• IPA^(key): /ˈkʰanə/^[1]

According to MacBain, apparently related to sense 2 (“puppy”) by transference.

cana m (genitive singular cana, plural canachan)

1. killer whale, orca, grampus

   Synonym: mada-chuain

2. porpoise

   Synonyms: pèileag, puthag

3. sturgeon

   Synonyms: bradan-sligeach, bradan-cearr

4. Order of poets, inferior to an ollamh.

From Middle Irish cana, from Proto-Celtic *kanawū (compare Welsh cenau).

cana m

1. puppy, whelp

Borrowed from English can.

cana m (genitive singular cana, plural canaichean)

1. can, tin

   Synonym: canastair

• MacBain, Alexander; Mackay, Eneas (1911), “cana”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language‎^[3], Stirling, →ISBN, page cana

• IPA^(key): /ˈkana/ [ˈka.na]

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• Rhymes: -ana
• Syllabification: ca‧na

Inherited from Latin cāna, feminine of cānus (“hoary”), or derived from the feminine of Spanish cano. Compare Portuguese cã.

cana f (plural canas)

1. white or gray hair
   • 1915, Julio Vicuña Cifuentes, Mitos y Supersticiones Recogidos de la Tradición Oral Chilena, page 166:

     Las canas se hacen más numerosas a medida que se les arranca.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Borrowed from Lunfardo [Term?], a slang term for police.^[1][2][3]

cana f (uncountable)

1. (colloquial, Rioplatense, Bolivia) police force, police department
   • 1972, Osvaldo Guglielmino, Las leguas amargas:

     Que nos callásemos, que va a mandar a la policía.
     -¡La policía no ! -dice Azucena- ¡ Rajemos chicas , que viene la cana ... !

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. (vulgar, Rioplatense, Andes, Colombia) jail, prison

cana m or f by sense (plural canas)

1. (colloquial, Rioplatense) police officer

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

cana

1. feminine singular of cano

• “cana”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

• anca

From Latin canna (“reed”), from Ancient Greek κάννα (kánna, “reed”), from Akkadian 𒄀 (qanû, “reed”), from Sumerian 𒄀𒈾 (gi.na).

cana f (plural cane)

1. tube
2. pipe

• canón (“tube, cannon”)
  • → Cimbrian: kanuun

• cân (literary, third-person singular present/future; literary, second-person singular imperative)
• canaf (first-person singular future)

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈkana/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈkaːna/, /ˈkana/
• Rhymes: -ana

cana

1. inflection of canu:
   1. first-person singular future colloquial
   2. third-person singular present indicative/future literary
   3. second-person singular imperative