handa

See also: Handa, hända, and hånda

Crimean Gothic

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *handuz.

Noun

handa

  1. hand
    • 1562, Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq:
      Handa. Manus.

Icelandic

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈhanta/
  • Rhymes: -anta

Preposition

handa

  1. (with dative) for
    Hann keypti hálsfestina handa Ástu.
    He bought the necklace for Ásta.

Synonyms

Noun

handa

  1. indefinite genitive plural of hönd

Japanese

Romanization

handa

  1. Rōmaji transcription of はんだ

Kikuyu

Etymology

Hinde (1904) records kuhanda as an equivalent of English plant (v.) in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu, listing also Kamba kubanda and Swahili kupanda as its equivalents.[1]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /haⁿda/

Verb

handa (infinitive kũhanda)

  1. to sow, to plant

Derived terms

(Nouns)

  • mũhandi class 1

References
  1. Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 46–7. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Armstrong, Lilias E. (1940). The Phonetic and Tonal Structure of Kikuyu, p. 361. Rep. 1967. (Also in 2018 by Routledge).
  • “handa” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

handa f

  1. definite singular of hand

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

handa f

  1. definite singular of hand

Tagalog

Adjective

handa

  1. ready
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