amana

See also: amâna, amaña, and amañá

Hausa

àmānā̀ f (possessed form àmānàr̃)

amana

Historical spellings
VLB (1622)	amãna

Cognate with Guaraní ama.

amana (?)

rain (condensed water falling from a cloud)
- 1622, anonymous author, “Escampar a chuua”, in Vocabulario na lingoa Braſilica, volume 1 (overall work in Old Tupi and Portuguese), Piratininga, page 122; republished as Carlos Drummond, editor, Vocabulário na Língua Brasílica, 2nd edition, São Paulo: USP, 1953:
  Opigc amana.
  [Opyk amana.]
  The rain ceased.
rainwater (water sourced from rain)^[1]
- c. 1628, Luís Figueira, Arte da lingua Braſilica [Art of the Brasílica Language]‎^[1] (overall work in Portuguese), Lisbon: Manuel da Silva, page 48:
  Açape monhang amana
  [Asapemonhang amana]
  I make a path for the rainwater

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

amana (possessable)

gerund of aman (“to encircle”)
- c. 1585, Joseph of Anchieta, “[Na Aldeia de Guaraparim] [In the Village of Guaraparim]” (chapter LXIV), in [livrinho de variaſ poeziaſ] [Booklet of various poems], Guarapari, page 149v, column 2, lines 161–163; republished as Maria de Lourdes de Paula Martins, compiler, Poesias, São Paulo, 1956, page 283:
  Jndi cori tiaço, / Temimino repenhana / aunhenhe cetama amana
  [I ndi kori t'îasó, / Temiminõ repenhana / aûnhenhẽ setama amana]
  Let's go with him today, attack the Temiminó, immediatly encircling their land.

^ anonymous author (1622) “Aguoa da chuiua”, in Vocabulario na lingoa Braſilica (overall work in Portuguese), Piratininga; republished as Carlos Drummond, editor, Vocabulário na Língua Brasílica, 2nd edition, volume 1, São Paulo: USP, 1953, page 24: “Amãna [Amana]”

Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “amana”, in Dicionário de tupi antigo: a língua indígena clássica do Brasil [Dictionary of Old Tupi: The Classical Indigenous Language of Brazil] (overall work in Portuguese), São Paulo: Global, →ISBN, page 29, column 1

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