gana

gana

1. inflection of ganar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• IPA^(key): /ɡanə/
• Hyphenation: ga‧na

From Sanskrit गगन (gagana, “sky”).

gana (Balinese script ᬕᬦ)

1. sky

From Sanskrit गान (gāna, “singing”).

gana (Balinese script ᬕᬵᬦ)

1. song

Borrowed from Old Javanese gaṇa (“host, group; a kind of demi-god; number; a certain military subdivision”), from Sanskrit गण (gaṇa).

gana (Balinese script ᬕᬡ)

1. count
2. group

Borrowed from Old Javanese ghana (“cloud”), from Sanskrit घन (ghana, “compact mass or substance”).

gana (Balinese script ᬖᬦ)

1. cloud

gana

1. soft mutation of kana

Unknown, maybe related to Gothic *𐌲𐌰𐌽𐌰𐌽 (*ganan, “to covet”)

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈɡa.nə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈɡa.na]

• Audio (Catalonia):

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• Homophone: Ghana

gana f (plural ganes)

1. hunger (desire for food)
2. (especially in the plural) desire to do something

   tenir ganes ― to feel like, fancy (literally, “to have desires”)

• “gana”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

Borrowed from Spanish gana.

• Hyphenation: ga‧na
• IPA^(key): /ˈɡana/ [ˈɡa.n̪ɐ]

gana

1. appetite
2. desire

gana

1. to work
2. to start up

Borrowed from Spanish ganar (“to win”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡana/ [ˈɡa.n̪a]

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: ga‧na

gána (plural garana, Basahan spelling ᜄᜈ)

1. victorious; triumphant

   Synonym: daog

gána (Basahan spelling ᜄᜈ)

1. win; victory; triumph

   Antonym: daog

2. appetite
3. enthusiasm

   Synonym: entusiyasmo

4. function

   Synonym: andar

Inherited from Spanish ganar (“to win”).

• IPA^(key): /ɡaˈna/, [ɡaˈna]
• Hyphenation: ga‧na

ganá

1. to win

• IPA^(key): /ɡa.na/

gana

1. to go

   egana ― they (sg.) went

   eganava ― they (sg.) are going

   vegana goarena. ― he will go to the bush.

   Vagana taonina. ― I will go to town.

   agana robana. ― I went to the garden.

	past (real) sm + stem		present (real) sm + stem + -va (pr)		future (irr) futsm + stem		command (irr) sm + ma- (irr) + stem		medial stem + om.posssfx + -nai
	positive	negative	positive	negative	positive	negative	positive	negative
1sg a	agana	da agana	aganava	da aganava	vagana	da vagana	amagana	da amagana	gana’unai
2sg o	ogana	da ogana	oganava	da oganava	vogana	da vogana	omagana	da omagana	ganamunai
3sg e	egana	da egana	eganava	da eganava	vegana	da vegana	emagana	da emagana	ganananai
1pl.incl ka	kagana	da kagana	kaganava	da kaganava	isagana	da isagana	kamagana	da kamagana	ganaganai
1pl.excl i	igana	da igana	iganava	da iganava	vigana	da vigana	imagana	da imagana	ganamainai
2pl u	ugana	da ugana	uganava	da uganava	vugana	da vugana	umagana	da umagana	ganamuinai
3pl ge	gegana	da gegana	geganava	da geganava	edagana	da edagana	gemagana	da gemagana	ganadanai

• Oa, Morea and Ma`oni Paul. (2014-02-24). Tentative Grammar Description for the Gabadi Language. [working paper, draft created November 2013; editor: Eileen Gasaway]. Ukarumpa, Papua New Guinea: SIL International. Available online: [3].
  • "egana" (he/she went), "eganava" (he/she is going), "vegana" (he/she will go), "edagana" (they will go), "isagana" (we (incl.) will go) - p.25
  • "agana" (I went) in example 62 ("Nana agana robana") - p.30
  • "vagana" (I will go) in example 110 ("Vagana taonina") - p.38

Attested since 1671. From Spanish gana, maybe from Gothic *𐌲𐌰𐌽𐌰𐌽 (*ganan, “to covet”) .^[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡana̝/

gana f (plural ganas)

1. desire to do something; zest

   Synonym: desexo

2. appetite

   Synonym: apetito

3. ill will
4. urge

   Tes gana de mexar? ― Do you feel the urge to piss?

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “gana”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “gana”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “gana”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

gana

1. inflection of ganir:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Compare Wiradjuri ganang.

gana

1. liver

gana

1. to wear

Borrowed from Spanish gana.

gana

1. appetite, desire

gana (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative ganaði, supine ganað)

1. rush, run frantically, act recklessly

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈɡana/ [ˈɡa.na]
• Rhymes: -ana
• Syllabification: ga‧na

Borrowed from Arabic غَنَاء (ḡanāʔ).

gana (plural gana-gana)

1. wealth

   Synonym: kekayaan

gana (plural gana-gana)

1. alternative spelling of ganar (“confused, mad”)

gana (plural gana-gana)

1. (archaic) decorative form in the form of a small child

Borrowed from Malay [Term?].

gana

1. (dialect, Riau) to carry something together, one person carrying it in front, one person behind

Borrowed from Javanese ꦒꦤ (gana, “bee larvae”), from Old Javanese gaṇa (“host, group; a kind of demi-god; number; a certain military subdivision”), from Sanskrit गण (gaṇa, “flock, troop, multitude, number, tribe, series, class (of animate or inanimate beings), body of followers or attendants”).

gana (plural gana-gana)

1. (dialect, Java) young wasp

• “gana”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

gana

1. romanization of ꦒꦤ

From Sudanese Arabic قنا (gana).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡana/, [ˈɡa.na]

gana

1. bamboo

• Ian Smith; Morris Timothy Ama (1985), A Dictionary of Juba Arabic & English‎^[4], 1st edition, Juba: The Committee of The Juba Cheshire Home and Centre for Handicapped Children, page 20

Cognate with Lithuanian ganà (“enough, rather, fairly”).

gana

1. enough

gana m

1. genitive singular of gans

Of unclear origin.^[1] According to Derksen, from a Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰen- (“to flourish, swell; enough, numerous”),^[2] which he appears to consider the same as *gʷʰen- (“to strike, slay”) (whence giñti (“drive, chase”)), perhaps via semantic shifts "slay" > "booty (from spoils of war)" > "flourish". Cognate with Latvian gana (“enough, rather, fairly”),^[3] Old Church Slavonic гонѣти (goněti, “to suffice”); outside of Balto-Slavic, compare tentatively Sanskrit घन (ghaná, “dense, thick”), Sanskrit आहनस् (āhanás, “thriving, full”), Old Armenian յոգն (yogn, “plenty”), Proto-West Germanic *gant (“whole, complete”).

• IPA^(key): /ɡɐˈnɐ/

ganà

1. enough, sufficiently

   Synonyms: pakanka, užtenka, pakankamai, užtektinai

   Aš turiu gana pinigų. ― I have enough money.

2. rather, fairly, quite

   Synonyms: gerokai, pakankamai

   Jis gana trumpas. ― He is rather short.

ganà

1. stop!, enough!

   Gana jau, gana! ― Enough already, enough!

• ganė́ti (“to suffice”)
• gandė́tis (“to fear, be afraid”)

• “gana”, in Lietuvių kalbos žodynas [Dictionary of the Lithuanian language], lkz.lt, 1941–2026
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “гонезнуть”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡana/, [ˈɡa.nã]
• Hyphenation: ga‧na

gana (Lontara spelling ᨁᨊ)

1. female (of animals and plants)

   Synonym: baine (of humans)

   Antonyms: laki (of animals and plants), bura'ne (of humans)

   Jangang ganaya ― The hen

• In most dialects, the word tends to be derogatory in nature when applied in the human sense, akin to addressing someone with the word bitch.

gana

1. to refuse

From Spanish gana.

gana

1. desire
2. wish
3. appetite

Deverbal from ganić.

• (Lesser Poland):
  • (Western Lublin) IPA^(key): [ˈɡa.na]

gana f

1. (Western Lublin, Józefów) synonym of przygana

   Oj, dany moje, dany,
   Nie pomogą gany. (song)

   Oh, my dear, my dear,
   Reproaches will not help.

• Hieronim Łopaciński (1892), “gana”, 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 275

• Rhymes: -ɐnɐ
• Homophone: Gana
• Hyphenation: ga‧na

Borrowed from Spanish gana.

gana f (plural ganas)

1. a strong desire, willingness or enthusiasm to achieve something; impetus; spur

   Synonyms: garra, fome

2. ill will (aversion towards someone)

   Synonyms: aversão, ranço, desgosto, ódio

gana

1. inflection of ganir:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

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

• 𐴒𐴝𐴕𐴝 (gana) — Hanifi Rohingya script

Cognate with Bengali গান (gan).

gana (Hanifi spelling 𐴒𐴝𐴕𐴝)

1. song

• gan / 𐴒𐴝𐴕 (gan)

From Spanish gana.

gana

1. desire

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡana/ [ˈɡa.na]
• Rhymes: -ana
• Syllabification: ga‧na
• Homophone: Ghana

Unknown, maybe related to Gothic *𐌲𐌰𐌽𐌰𐌽 (*ganan, “to covet”) and thus ganar.

gana f (plural ganas)

1. (often in the plural) best translated with to feel like, to want

   No tengo ganas (de hacer eso). ― I don't feel like it (like doing that).

   No me da la gana (hacer eso). ― I don't feel like it (like doing that).

2. (in the plural) urge, uses a "tengo ganas de" or "me dan ganas de" construction

• → Cebuano: gana
• → Hiligaynon: gana
• → K'iche': gan
• → Sicilian: gana, jana
• → Tagalog: gana
• → Moroccan Arabic: ڭانة (gāna)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

gana

1. inflection of ganar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “gana”, 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

-gana

1. to take/accept a lover (only said of a girl)

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Borrowed from Spanish gana.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈɡana/ [ˈɡaː.n̪ɐ]
• Rhymes: -ana
• Syllabification: ga‧na

gana (Baybayin spelling ᜄᜈ)

1. appetite; relish for food or drink
2. inclination; liking; motivation; willingness to do something
3. seal; enthusiasm; diligence

   Synonyms: sigla, sigasig

4. functioning (of machines)
5. salary; wages; income

   Synonyms: kita, suweldo, sahod

6. renumeration; reward; compensation

   Synonyms: gantimpagal, bayad, gantimpala

7. gain; profit

   Synonyms: tubo, ganansiya, pakinabang

8. interest from loans

   Synonyms: tubo, patubo, patong, interes

9. tight hold or grip (as of a wrench)

   Synonyms: hapit, kagat

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ɡaˈna/ [ɡɐˈn̪a]
• Rhymes: -a
• Syllabification: ga‧na

ganá (Baybayin spelling ᜄᜈ)

1. at once; immediately

   Synonyms: agad, kaagad, pagdaka, pagkaraka

• gaan, anga, naga

gana

1. genitive singular of gan

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈɡana/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈɡaːna/, /ˈɡana/

gana

1. soft mutation of cana

• gãnna

Compare Ngiyambaa kanaa.

gana

1. shoulder
   • 1892, James Günther, “Grammar and Vocabulary of the Aboriginal Dialect called the Wirradhuri”, in John Fraser, editor, An Australian Language:

     Gãnna—the shoulder.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

-gana

1. to marry, to choose a husband

• C. M. Doke; B. W. Vilakazi (1972), “gana”, in Zulu-English Dictionary, →ISBN: “gana (6.3)”