nini

See also: Nini

Hungarian

Etymology

ni +‎ ni[1]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ˈnini]
  • Hyphenation: ni‧ni

Interjection

nini

  1. (colloquial) lo!, look!
    Nini, egy madár! ― Look! A bird!

References
  1. Zaicz, Gábor. Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (’Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN

Italian

Noun

nini m

  1. plural of nino

Anagrams

Old Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *snisni (compare Welsh nini).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈn͈ʲin͈ʲi/

Pronoun

nini (emphatic)

  1. we
    • c. 875, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 43d5
      Is nini fo·rálaig.
      It is we that it had prostrated.
    Synonyms: sinni, sisni, snisni

Spanish

Etymology

A shortening of ni estudia ni trabaja (meaning “neither works nor studies”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈnini/

Noun

nini m or f (plural ninis)

  1. (informal) neet, NEET

See also

Swahili

Pronoun

nini

  1. what (interrogative pronoun)

Derived terms
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