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Minna
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minna
English
Pronunciation
en En-Minna.ogg
Proper noun
en largest city/and/state capital s:Suf/Niger c/Nigeria.
en 2023 Stephen Buoro The Five Sorrowful Mysteries of Andy Africa Bloomsbury Circus 174 Morocca says that, since the ambulances came from Minna, he’s sure the road is safe.
Danish
Etymology
From da de Minna.
Proper noun
da proper noun
da female
Estonian
Etymology
From et de Minna.
Proper noun
et proper noun
et female
Faroese
Proper noun
fo proper noun f
fo female
Usage notes
f Minnuson Minnudóttir
Declension
Minna Minnu Minnu Minnu
Finnish
Etymology
A pet form of fi Vilhelmiina, perhaps via fi de Minna.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
fi female
fi 1959 w:Väinö Linna Täällä Pohjantähden alla 1 104 WSOY 1965 Ajatuksissaan kirkkoherra nimitti Helsingistä mukana tuotua taloudenhoitajaa Minnaksi, vaikka Ellen meni siinäkin naurettavuuteen asti, että nimityksen pitäisi kuulua Miina. In his thoughts, the vicar called the housekeeper brought over from Helsinki Minna, even though Ellen went almost to a ridiculous extent to say that she should be called Miina.
fi 1970 w:fi:Veronica Pimenoff Pohjoiset pelit Tammi 9513006832 103 Senkin nimi oli Minna. Minna oli kuullut sen äidin huutavan sitä. Pari vuotta sitten Minna-nimi olikin ollut muodissa, tuon ikäisiä Minnoja vilisi joka paikassa. Toista oli hänen aikanaan, kun koulussa muut haukkuivat Minna Canthiksi ja huusivat perään että "Miina, Miina, kahvi kiehuu, Miina menee ja hakee sen keittiöstä nyt!" She was called Minna too. Minna had heard her mother call for her. A couple of years later Minna was a fashionable name and there were Minnas of the same age everywhere. It was different back in her time, when the others mocked her by calling her Minna Canth and rhyming "Miina, Miina, kahvi kiehuu, Miina menee ja hakee sen keittiöstä nyt!" [Miina, Miina, the coffee's ready, Miina should go get it from the kitchen now!].
Usage notes
Very popular in Finland the 1960s and 1970s.
Declension
Minn a
Statistics
dvv_20250813 27480 1930 5
References
Anagrams
fi aimnn manin minan namin
German
Etymology
Popularized by the comedy Minna von Barnhelm (1767) by G. E. Lessing, see quotations.
Pronunciation
de /ˈmɪna/
de De-Minna.ogg <<Germany>> (<<Berlin>>)
Proper noun
de proper noun
de female Wilhelmina
Tellheim Wohin, liebste Minna?
Noun
f,s
de colloquial dated domestic, servant
de Hausangestellte
de Ich bin doch nicht deine Minna!
Derived terms
de grüne Minna
de zur Minna machen
Further reading
Minna_Hausangestellte_Polizeiwagen Minna (Hausangestellte, Polizeiwagen)
Minna_weiblicher_Vorname Minna
de eponyms