jena

jen +‎ -a

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jena (accusative singular jenan, plural jenaj, accusative plural jenajn)

1. following (which are about to follow (i.e., be presented) shortly)

jena f (plural jene)

1. (obsolete) Alternative spelling of iena

jena f (4th declension)

1. yen (monetary unit of Japan)

   piecas jenas ― five yen

   papīra jena ― paper yen (i.e., bills, banknotes)

   jenas kurss ― the exchange rate of the yen

   grāmata maksā piecas jenas ― the book costs five yen

jenà f (plural jènos) stress pattern 2

1. yen (currency of Japan)

Borrowed from Italian iena, from Latin hyaena, from Ancient Greek ὕαινα (húaina).

• IPA^(key): /ˈjɛː.na/

jena f (plural jeni)

1. hyena

• (De'kwana) jeena

• IPA^(key): [hʷena]

jena

1. (Ye'kwana dialect) paddle for rowing

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011), “jena”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana, Lyon
• Hall, Katherine Lee (1988), “he:na”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volume I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University
• Hall, Katherine (2007), “hēna”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021

Borrowed from French gêner.

a jena (third-person singular present jenează, past participle jenat) 1st conj.

1. to embarrass
2. to discomfort, incommode
3. to inconvenience
4. to hinder, impede, be in the way of
5. to disturb, trouble

• (incommode): incomoda
• (hinder, impede): împiedica, stânjeni, stingheri
• (disturb): deranja

• jenă

• rușina

From Serbo-Croatian jedan.

• IPA^(key): /jěnâː/

jena f

1. one

jena f (m jedyn, n jene)

1. one