ano

Abbreviation of English Andoque.

ano

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Andoque.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Andoque terms

Inherited from Proto-Philippine *anúh, From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *anu.

• IPA^(key): /ʔaˈno/ [ʔaˈn̪o]
• Rhymes: -o
• Syllabification: a‧no

anó

1. what

ano

1. I
2. my

ano

1. bee
2. honey

ano m

1. name

Inherited from Proto-Philippine *anúh, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *anu, from Proto-Austronesian *(na-)nu.

• IPA^(key): /ˈʔano/ [ˈʔa.n̪o]

• Audio:

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• IPA^(key): /ʔaˈno/ [ʔaˈn̪o]
• Hyphenation: a‧no

áno or anó (Basahan spelling ᜀᜈᜓ)

1. (interrogative) what

   Ano an ginigibo mo?

   What are you doing?

• ʋno (traditional)
• ạno (Byington/Swanton)

Freestanding form of suffix a̱-. Cognate with Chickasaw ano, Alabama ana, Mikasuki aani, Creek vne

• IPA^(key): /ənó(ʔ)/
• Transcription: anó'

ano (first-person singular)

1. (emphatic) I, me
2. (Mississippi) mine

Choctaw usually doesn't use personal pronouns, instead relying on pronominal affixes.

ano

1. yet

• Clark, E. W. (1911), “ANU, anur, ano, anor”, in Ao-Naga dictionary, Dimapur

From Proto-Germanic *hanô or *hanjō.

ano

1. hen
   • 1562, Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, Legationis Turcicae Epistolae Quatuor:

     Ano. Gallina.

     Hen. Hen.

Inherited from Old Czech ano, from Proto-Slavic *ano. Compare Slovak áno (“yes”), Polish ano (“yes, indeed”). First attested in the 15th century.^[1]

• IPA^(key): [ˈano]

• Audio:

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ano

1. yes!

ano

1. yes

   Antonym: ne

• jo (informal)
• jasně (informal)
• jistě
• určitě

• “ano”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “ano”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

Back-formation from -ano (“member, inhabitant”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈano/

• Audio 1:

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• Audio 2:

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• Rhymes: -ano
• Syllabification: a‧no

ano (accusative singular anon, plural anoj, accusative plural anojn)

1. member (of a society or a group)
2. inhabitant (of a place)

• (member): adepto, aliĝinto, disĉiplo

• anaro (“membership; following; party”)
• ani (“to be a member, belong”)
• anigi (“to make (someone) a member; to sign (someone) up”)
• aniĝi (“to join”)

• “ano”, in Plena Ilustrita Vortaro de Esperanto [Complete Illustrated Dictionary of Esperanto], 2020, →ISBN
• “ano”, in Reta Vortaro [Online Dictionary] (in Esperanto), 1997-2026

Clipping of anonyymi.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑno/, [ˈɑ̝no̞]
• Rhymes: -ɑno
• Syllabification^(key): a‧no
• Hyphenation^(key): ano

ano

1. (Internet slang) anonymous person, anonymous user

   Synonym: nyymi

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑnoˣ/, [ˈɑ̝no̞(ʔ)]
• Rhymes: -ɑno
• Syllabification^(key): a‧no
• Hyphenation^(key): ano

ano

1. inflection of anoa:
   1. present indicative connegative
   2. second-person singular present imperative
   3. second-person singular present imperative connegative

• oan

• IPA^(key): /ˈano/ [ˈa.nʊ]
• Rhymes: -ano
• Hyphenation: a‧no

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese ano (“year”), from Latin annus (“year”).

ano m (plural anos)

1. year

Learned borrowing from Latin ānus.

ano m (plural anos)

1. anus

   Synonyms: censo (informal); cenzo (informal); cu (informal); curso (informal)

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.no/, [ˈɐ.no]

ano

1. awe, reverence, peacefulness, sacredness, holiness
2. feeling of awe, fear, or oppression
3. weird solitude, oppressive quiet
4. awestruck, lost in thought

Inherited from Latin annus.

ano m

1. year

• Antonio Pellizzer; Giovanni Pellizzer (1992), Vocabulario del dialetto di Rovigno d'Istria, page 54
• Sandro Cergna (2015), Vocabolario del dialetto di Valle d'Istria, →ISBN, page 26

Borrowed from Latin anus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.no/
• Rhymes: -ano
• Hyphenation: à‧no

ano m (plural ani)

1. anus

• anale
• anello

• -ona, noa

ano

1. Rōmaji transcription of あの

ānō

1. dative/ablative singular of ānus

• IPA^(key): [ɐˈn̪ǒː]

anõ

1. genitive masculine singular of anas

From Portuguese ano.

ano

1. year

   ano passado ― last year

   ano trasado ― two years ago

   abrí ano ― to bring in the New Year (literally, “to open the year”)

   fichâ ano ― to have a birthday (literally, “to close the year”)

• abrí ano may be a calque of Cantonese 開年 / 开年 (hoi¹ nin⁴, literally “open year”).

• https://www.macaneselibrary.org/pub/english/uipatua.htm

From Proto-West Germanic *anō, from Proto-Germanic *anô.

ano m

1. grandfather
2. ancestor

• ana (“grandmother”)

From Proto-West Germanic *ānu, from Proto-Germanic *ēnu.

āno

1. without

• ānu, āna, āne

• Middle High German: âne, ân
  • Alemannic German: ooni, ohni, ouni
  • Bavarian:
    • Cimbrian: ane
  • Central Franconian: ohne, ohni, ohnt
    • Luxembourgish: ouni
  • East Central German: ohne
    • Vilamovian: ona
  • German: ohne
  • Yiddish: אָן (on)

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *ano. First attested in 1400.

• IPA^(key): (10^th–15^th CE) /ˈanɔ/
• IPA^(key): (15^th CE) /ˈanɔ/

ano

1. used to present something; and here
   • 1879 [1411], Jan Tadeusz Lubomirski, editor, Księga ziemi czerskiej 1404-1425. Liber terrae Cernensis‎^[1], Masovia, page 344:

     Essze yeszmy sandzili Jakuba sz panem Paszkem, ano m[e]y geszmy gemu skaszaly XXX grziwen

     [Eże jesmy sądzili Jakuba z panem Paszkiem, ano m[e]y jesmy jemu skazali XXX grzywien]

2. and yet
   • 1902 [1400], “Wybór zapisek sądowych grodzkich i ziemskich wielkopolskich z XV wieku”, in Franciszek Piekosiński, editor, Studia, rozprawy i materiały z dziedziny historii polskiej i prawa polskiego‎^[2], volume 6, Poznań, Pyzdry, Kościan, Gniezno, page 19:

     Potrasz stawil sø na ten rok, iaco mal, ano go ne chczano prziyancz

     [Piotrasz stawił się na ten rok, jako miał, ano go nie chciano przyjąć]

   • 1895 [1422], Archiwum Komisji Prawniczej. Collectanea ex Archivo Collegii Iuridici‎^[3], volume VIIIa, page 45:

     Iako mne pan kaszal na przewoth, ano nye bil moy

     [Jako mnie pan kazał na przewod, ano nie był moj]

3. and just
   • 1930 [c. 1455], “III Reg”, in Ludwik Bernacki, editor, Biblia królowej Zofii (Biblia szaroszpatacka)‎^{transliteration, transcription}, 14, 17:

     Gdisz przestøpyla przes prog domowi, nalyazla, ano dzeczø vmarlo (cumque illa ingrederetur limen domus, puer mortuus est)

     [Gdyż przestąpiła przez prog domowy, nalazła, ano dziecię umarło (cumque illa ingrederetur limen domus, puer mortuus est)]

4. because meanwhile, because just
   • 1930 [c. 1455], “Ex”, in Ludwik Bernacki, editor, Biblia królowej Zofii (Biblia szaroszpatacka)‎^{transliteration, transcription}, 12, 39:

     Synowye izrahelsczy... uczynyly søø... chleb prazny, bo nye mogly ukwaszycz, ano ge nøkaly Egipsczy (cogentibus... Aegyptiis)

     [Synowie izrahelszczy... uczynili są... chleb przasny, bo nie mogli ukwasić, ano je nękali Ejipszczy (cogentibus... Aegyptiis)]

• Polish: ano, a ono (Kurpie, Ostrołęka County), anu (Łowicz)
• Silesian: ano

• Boryś, Wiesław (2005), “ano”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN
• Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000), “ano”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
• B. Sieradzka-Baziur, Ewa Deptuchowa, Joanna Duska, Mariusz Frodyma, Beata Hejmo, Dorota Janeczko, Katarzyna Jasińska, Krystyna Kajtoch, Joanna Kozioł, Marian Kucała, Dorota Mika, Gabriela Niemiec, Urszula Poprawska, Elżbieta Supranowicz, Ludwika Szelachowska-Winiarzowa, Zofia Wanicowa, Piotr Szpor, Bartłomiej Borek, editors (2011–2015), “ano”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN

From Proto-West Germanic *ānu, from Proto-Germanic *ēnu.

āno

1. without (accusative case only)

• Middle Low German: âne, ân
  • Low German: ahn
  • German Low German: ahn, ahnto

• Köbler, Gerhard (2014), “āno”, in Altsächsisches Wörterbuch‎^[4] (in German), 5th edition

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɔ
• Syllabification: a‧no

Inherited from Old Polish ano.

• a ono (Kurpie, Ostrołęka County)
• anu (Łowicz)

ano

1. yes, indeed

   Synonyms: no, tak

   Antonym: nie

2. (colloquial or dialectal, Near Masovian) emphatic particle used with imperatives

   Synonym: no

3. (Middle Polish) so

   Synonyms: otóż, więc

ano

1. (Middle Polish or dialectal, Masuria, Warmia) used to present something; and here
2. (Middle Polish) and just
3. (Middle Polish) and yet
4. (Masuria, Ostróda, contrastive) but; just
5. (Podegrodzie) synonym of no

   Ano tak posed i ukrád. ― Well, he went and stole it.

   Ano jak upiekła ta dziewcyna, to ją wyjęła z pieca. ― Well, when that girl baked it, she'll take it out of the oven.

ano

1. (Masuria, Ostróda, Warmia) Used expressively.

ano (not comparable)

1. (Przemyśl) synonym of znowu

   Ano na drugi dzień jedzie Jaś w pole. ― Jaś is going to the field for another day again.

See jeno.

ano

1. (Kociewie) alternative form of jeno

• “ano”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎^[5] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• “ano”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[6] (in Polish)
• Maria Renata Mayenowa; Stanisław Rospond; Witold Taszycki; Stefan Hrabec; Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023), “ano”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
• Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814), “ano”, in Słownik języka polskiego
• Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861), “ano”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
• J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1900), “ano”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 1, Warsaw, page 40
• Zygmunt Wasilewski (1889), “ano”, in Jagodne: wieś w powiecie łukowskim, gminie Dąbie: zarys etnograficzny‎^[7] (in Polish), Warsaw: M. Arct, page 239
• Zofia Stamirowska (1987-2024), “ano”, in Anna Basara, editor, Słownik gwar Ostródzkiego, Warmii i Mazur, volume 1, Zakład Narodowy im. Ossolińskich Wydawnictwo Polskiej Akademii Nauk, →ISBN, pages 127-128
• Dr Nadmorski (Józef Łęgowski) (1889), “ano”, in “Spis wyrazów właściwych gwarze malborskiej i kociewskiej”, in Wisła. Miesięcznik Geograficzno-Etnograficzny (in Polish), volume 3 z.4, page 744
• Gustaw Pobłocki (1887), “ano”, in Słownik kaszubski z dodatkiem idyotyzmów chełmińskich i kociewskich (in Polish), 2 edition, Chełmno, page 153
• Aleksander Saloni (1908), “ano”, in “Lud rzeszowski”, in Materyały Antropologiczno-Archeologiczne i Etnograficzne‎^[8] (in Polish), volume 10, Kraków: Akademia Umiejętności, page 332
• Karol Mátyás (1891), “ano”, in “Słowniczek gwary ludu zamieszkującego wschodnio-południową najbliższą okolicę Nowego Sącza”, in Sprawozdania Komisyi Językowej Akademii Umiejętności (in Polish), volume 4, Kraków: Drukarnia Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, page 319
• Hieronim Łopaciński (1892), “ano”, in “Przyczynki do nowego słownika języka polskiego (słownik wyrazów ludowych z Lubelskiego i innych okolic Królestwa Polskiego)”, in Prace Filologiczne (in Polish), volume 4, Warsaw: skł. gł. w Księgarni E. Wende i Ska, page 181

• anno (pre-standardization spelling)

From Old Galician-Portuguese ano (“year”), from Latin annus (“year”), from Proto-Italic *atnos (“year”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂et-nos-, probably from *h₂et- (“to go”).

Cognate with Galician ano, Spanish año, Catalan any, Occitan, French, and Romanian an, Italian anno.

• (Rural Central Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈɐ.nʷ/

• Audio (Portugal (Porto)):

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• Rhymes: (Portugal) -ɐnu, (Brazil) -ɐ̃nu
• Hyphenation: a‧no

ano m (plural anos)

1. year
   • 2005, J. K. Rowling, translated by Lia Wyler, Harry Potter e o Enigma do Príncipe [Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince] (Harry Potter; 6), Rio de Janeiro: Rocco, →ISBN, page 137:

     Rony ralhou com um aluno do primeiro ano particularmente pequeno [...]

     Ron scolded a first-year student particularly small [...]

   • 1880, Maria Amalia Vaz de Carvalho, “A Cigana [Gypsy]”, in Contos e phantasias [Short stories and fantasies]‎^[9], 2nd edition, Lisbon: Parceria Antonio Maria Pereira, published 1905, page 152:

     Luiza amava, e amava com o primeiro e grande affecto de quinze annos.

     Luiza was in love, and she loved with the first and profound affection of a fifteen-year-old.

For quotations using this term, see Citations:ano.

• aninho (diminutive)
• fazer anos

• Kabuverdianu: anu
• →? Telugu: ఆన (āna)

• “ano”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “ano”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

1. anor

ano

1. mother

   Synonyms: moda, nan

   Antonyms: ato, dod

Inherited from Old Polish ano.

• IPA^(key): /aˈnɔ/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɔ
• Syllabification: a‧no

ano

1. confirmation particle; yes

   Synonyms: ja, toć, no

   Antonym: niy

2. Used to a previously mentioned situation; well, so

• ano in silling.org
• Bogdan Kallus (2020), “ano”, in Słownik Gōrnoślōnskij Gŏdki, IV edition, Chorzów: Pro Loquela Silesiana, →ISBN, page 232
• Aleksandra Wencel (2023), “ano”, in Dykcjůnôrz ślų̊sko-polski, page 21

Borrowed from Latin anus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈano/ [ˈa.no]

• Audio (Colombia):

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• Rhymes: -ano
• Syllabification: a‧no

ano m (plural anos)

1. anus

   Synonym: culo

   ¿Cómo huele mi aliento? — A una selva asquerosa. — Bueno, al menos no huele al ano de un gato muerto como el tuyo.

   How does my breath smell? — Like a disgusting jungle. — Well at least it doesn't smell like a dead cat's anus like yours.

• Do not confuse with año (“year”).

• “ano”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

Inherited from Proto-Philippine *anúh, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *anu, from Proto-Austronesian *(na-)nu. Compare Tausug unu.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ʔaˈno/ [ʔɐˈn̪o]
• Rhymes: -o
• Syllabification: a‧no

anó (plural ano-ano, Baybayin spelling ᜀᜈᜓ)

1. (interrogative) what

   Synonyms: (gay slang) anek, (gay slang) anech

2. term used for any object whose actual name the speaker does not know, avoids, or cannot remember: thingamajig, whatchamacallit

   Synonyms: kuwan, eme

anó (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜈᜓ)

1. an expression of surprise or disbelief: what!

anó (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜈᜓ)

1. alternative form of 'no

• “ano”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, 2018
• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*nu”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

• Ona

From Proto-Polynesian *rano, from Proto-Oceanic *rano, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *danaw, from Proto-Austronesian *danaw.

• IPA^(key): /a.no/

ano

1. lake; bog; marsh

• anoano

• an

From Latin annus (“year”).

ano m (plural ani)

1. year

• ano bixesto

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.n̪o/

ano

1. a part (of something)

• Clemens Voorhoeve (1982), The Makian languages and their neighbours‎^[10], Pacific linguistics