meana

• meanaidh, meanaithe

From Old Irish menad. Cognate with Scottish Gaelic minidh and Manx mennee.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmʲan̪ˠə/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈmʲanˠi/, /ˈmʲan̪ˠi/^[1] (corresponding to the form meanaidh)

meana m (genitive singular meana, nominative plural meanaí)

1. awl, bodkin (pointed tool)

• → Yola: managh

• “meana”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “menad”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “meana”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 473
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “meana”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

From Turkish meyhane, from Persian میخانه (meyxâne), compound of Persian می (may, “wine”) and Persian خانه (xâne, “house”).

meana f (Latin spelling)

1. cabaret, tavern

• Joseph Nehama, Jesús Cantera (1977) “meaná, meané”, in Dictionnaire du Judéo-Espagnol (in French), Madrid: CSIC, →ISBN, page 353