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Borrowed from Konkani सान्नां (sānnā̃).

sanna (plural sannas)

1. A spongy steamed rice cake, popular in parts of India.

• Annas, annas, na-nas, naans, nanas

sanna (plural [please provide])

1. flint‐lock gun

From san +‎ -na, literally “our language”.

sanna f

1. Cypriot Arabic

• Borg, Alexander (2004) A Comparative Glossary of Cypriot Maronite Arabic (Arabic–English) (Handbook of Oriental Studies; I.70), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 417

• (Nuuk) IPA^(key): /sanna/, [sən.na]

sanna (demonstrative) (plural sakku)

1. down distal absolutive; that down a long distance, he/she/it down there.

• manna - this here
• una - that nearby
• innga - that yonder
• kanna - that down a medial distance
• pinnga - that up a medial distance
• panna - that up a long distance
• qanna - that in there/out there
• anna - that in the north
• kinnga - that in the south/that outside
• inna - that which is invisible

• Rhymes: -anːa

From Old Norse sanna.

sanna (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative sannaði, supine sannað)

1. to prove

sanna f (genitive singular sönnu, nominative plural sönnur)

1. (chiefly in the plural) proof; usually in set phrases

sanna

1. inflection of sannur:
   1. strong feminine singular accusative positive degree
   2. strong masculine plural accusative positive degree
   3. weak masculine singular accusative positive degree
   4. weak masculine singular dative positive degree
   5. weak masculine singular genitive positive degree
   6. weak feminine singular nominative positive degree
   7. weak neuter singular positive degree

• IPA^(key): /ˈsan.na/
• Rhymes: -anna
• Hyphenation: sàn‧na

sanna f (plural sanne)

1. (archaic) Alternative form of zanna

   • 1472, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Inferno, Le Monnier, published 1994, Canto VI, p.90, vv. 22-23:

     Quando ci scorse Cerbero, il gran vermo, ¶ le bocche aperse e mostrocci le sanne;

     When Cerberus perceived us, the great worm, ¶ his mouths he opened, and displayed his tusks;

From Ancient Greek σάννας (sánnas).

sanna f (genitive sannae); first declension

1. A grimace, especially in mockery

First-declension noun.

• sannātor
• sanniō
• sannō

• “sanna”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• sanna in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

• senna, sana, sena

Uncertain. Perhaps a borrowing of Old Norse sanna, senna, from Proto-Germanic *sanþōną, *sanþijaną, from *sanþaz (“true”).

sanna

1. to contradict

• sann

• North Frisian: sana

From Proto-Germanic *sanþōną, from *sanþaz, whence also Old Norse saðr. The English soothe is a cognate.

sanna

1. to assert, affirm
2. to make good, prove

• sannan f (“assertion, proof”)
• senna f (“quarrel, row”)

sanna f (genitive sǫnnu)

1. assertation
2. proof

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “sanna”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive

From Old Norse sanna, from Proto-Germanic *sanþōną.

sanna

1. to prove true, show to be true

• Swedish: sanna

sanna

1. past participle of sandati (“to flow”)^[1]

sanna

1. past participle of sīdati (“to sink”)^[1]

sanna

1. inflection of sann:
   1. definite singular
   2. plural