mona

From Spanish mona (“monkey”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈmoʊnə/

• Audio (Southern England):

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mona (plural monas)

1. Cercopithecus mona, a West African monkey.

• Cercopithecus mona on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Cercopithecus mona on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

• Amon, Mano, NOMA, Noam, Oman, Onam, mano, maon, moan, noma

From Proto-Oceanic *moñak, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *məñak.

mona

1. pudding boiled in a clay pot

• mamonana (“fat”)

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

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From earlier mamona, maimona, from Arabic مَيْمُون (maymūn, “baboon, mandrill”).

mona f (plural mones)

1. monkey

   Synonym: mico

2. (colloquial) ape, copycat
3. (colloquial) drunkenness, hangover

   Synonyms: embriaguesa, ressaca

4. a matching card game similar to Old Maid; also the loser and the losing card in this game

Inherited from Latin munda, plural of mundum (“world”).

mona f (plural mones)

1. a round cake garnished with eggs (originally hard-boiled, now usually chocolate) eaten at Easter

• “mona”, 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

Presumably from English money.

• IPA^(key): [ˈmoːnə]

mona (collective)

1. money, cash

   Synonym: arghans

2. change

From mono +‎ -a.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmona/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ona
• Syllabification: mo‧na

mona (accusative singular monan, plural monaj, accusative plural monajn)

1. (money) pecuniary, monetary

From Proto-Polynesian *mona, from Proto-Oceanic *moñak, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *məñak. Cognate with Malay minyak (“oil”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈmo.na/, [ˈmo.nə]

mona

1. fat (specialized animal tissue)

mona

1. (stative) fat (carrying a larger than normal amount of fat on one's body)
2. (stative) fertile, rich (as soil)
3. (stative) fruitful

• momona
• monamona (“dessert”)

• Pukui, Mary Kawena; Elbert, Samuel H. (1986), “mona”, in Hawaiian Dictionary, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, →ISBN

From Spanish mono, of Arabic origin.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɔ.na/
• Rhymes: -ɔna
• Hyphenation: mò‧na

mona f (plural mone)

1. (obsolete) monkey

Uncertain.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmo.na/
• Rhymes: -ona
• Hyphenation: mó‧na

mona f (plural mone)

1. (regional, chiefly Triveneto, vulgar, figurative) cunt, pussy

mona m (invariable)

1. (regional, chiefly Triveneto, vulgar, derogatory) idiot, silly, dupe

• Maon, Oman, mano, noma

mona

1. to see

Inherited from Proto-Bantu *-bóna.

mona

1. to see

Borrowed from Kongo mona.

-mona (infinitive komona)

1. to see

mona

1. to see

mona

1. (Early Middle English) alternative form of mone (“moon”)

Cognates include Minica Huitoto mona and Nüpode Huitoto mona.

• IPA^(key): [ˈmɔna]
• Hyphenation: mo‧na

mona

1. sky

• Shirley Burtch (1983), Diccionario Huitoto Murui (Tomo I) (Linguistica Peruana No. 20)‎^[2] (in Spanish), Yarinacocha, Peru: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, page 179
• Katarzyna Izabela Wojtylak (2017), A grammar of Murui (Bue): a Witotoan language of Northwest Amazonia.‎^[3], Townsville: James Cook University press (PhD thesis), page 127

• mōne f

From Proto-West Germanic *mānō, from Proto-Germanic *mēnô, from Proto-Indo-European *mḗh₁n̥s, probably a suffixed form of an ultimate root *meh₁- (“to measure”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈmoː.nɑ/

mōna m

1. moon
   • c. 994, Ælfric, On the Seasons of the Year

     Sē mōna næfþ nān lēoht būtan of þǣre sunnan lēoman, and hē is ealra tungla niðemest.

     The moon has no light except from the sun, and it is the lowest of all the heavenly bodies.

   • The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle

     An. DCCXXXIIII Hēr wæs sē mōna swylċe hē wǣre mid blōde begoten, ⁊ forðferdan Tātwine ⁊ Beda

     Year 734 In this year it was as if the moon was covered in blood, and Tatwine and Beda died.

   Lōca nū hū beorhte sē mōna tō niht sċīnþ!

   Look how bright the moon is shining tonight!

   On þæs mōnan lēohte læġ lȳtel ǣġ on lēafe.

   In the light of the moon, a little egg lay on a leaf.

Weak:

• Middle English: mone, moone, mon, moyn, monæ, mona
  • English: moon
    • → Japanese: ムーン
    • Sranan Tongo: mun
    • Tok Pisin: mun
    • Torres Strait Creole: mun
  • Scots: muin, mone, monne, moon, moune, mowne, moyn, moyne, mune, mwne
  • Yola: mond
  • Geordie: muin, meun

From Proto-West Germanic *mānō, from Proto-Germanic *mēnô, from Proto-Indo-European *mḗh₁n̥s (“moon, month”). Cognates include Old English mōna, Old High German mâno, Old Norse máni and Gothic 𐌼𐌴𐌽𐌰 (mēna).

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɔːna/

môna m

1. moon

• North Frisian:

  Föhr-Amrum: muun

  Mooring: moune

  Sylt: Muun

• Saterland Frisian: Moune
• West Frisian: moanne

• Bremmer, Rolf H. (2009), An Introduction to Old Frisian: History, Grammar, Reader, Glossary, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN

mona n

1. wisdom
2. self-possession
3. silence

From Proto-Polynesian *mona, from Proto-Oceanic *moñak, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *məñak.

mona

1. (stative) be sweet

• momona (“fat”)
• monamona (“lollipop, candy”)

From Proto-Polynesian *mona, from Proto-Oceanic *moñak, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *məñak.

mona

1. pudding

• momona (“oily, greasy”)
• mnamona (“fat, grease”)

• Rhymes: (Brazil) -õnɐ, (Portugal) -onɐ
• Hyphenation: mo‧na

From Venetan mona (“pussy, cunt”).

Possibly borrowed from Spanish mona.

mona f (plural monas)

1. female equivalent of mono
2. rag doll

   Synonyms: marafona, matrafona

3. (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) (Brazil, informal) vagina

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:vagina

4. (informal) drunkenness

   Synonym: bebedeira

   • 1906 March 3, A Situação, Jaguarão, page 2; quoted in Jeferson Francisco Selbach, Rosemary Fritsch Brum, “Jornal A Situação 1906 a 1920”, in Ruralização e viver em fronteira: Jaguarão/RS, Porto Alegre: Animal, 13 May 2017, →ISBN, page 99:

     Hoje a 1 hora da tarde foi tambem conduzido áquelle posto o creoulo Manoel Oliveira, por estar cahido com forte «mona» na rua 15 de Novembro, na porta do estabelecimento funerário do Sr. Miguel Dellelis.

5. the state of being upset, bothered or annoyed

   Synonyms: aborrecimento, amuamento, amuo

6. (Brazil, informal) woman
7. (informal) head

   Synonym: cabeça

8. (bullfighting) armor used by the bullfighter under his shorts

from Kimbundu mona ("child").

mona n (plural monas)

1. (Angola, slang) child, boy or girl
2. (LGBTQ, slang) person or folx

• mana
• mano
• mina

Unknown.

mona

1. feminine singular of mono

mona f (plural monas)

1. a goat lacking one of its horns

• “mona”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “mona” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “mona”, in Dicio – Dicionário Online de Português (in Portuguese), São Paulo: 7Graus, 2009–2026
• “mona”, in Dicionário infopédia da Lingua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2026
• “mona”, in Dicionário inFormal (in Portuguese), 2006–2026
• “mona”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2026, →ISBN
• “mona”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

From Proto-Oceanic *moñak, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *məñak.

mona

1. fat, grease

mona

1. here; proximal demonstrative adverb.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmona/ [ˈmo.na]

• Audio (Colombia):

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• Rhymes: -ona
• Syllabification: mo‧na

From mono (“monkey”). Compare English monkey.

mona f (plural monas)

1. drunkenness, fuddle

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:borrachera

mona f (plural monas, masculine mono, masculine plural monos)

1. female equivalent of mono: female monkey
2. copycat
3. (Mexico, Chile) doll, puppet
4. (Colombia) blonde woman

• → English: mona
• → Italian: mona

mona f sg

1. feminine singular of mono

mona f (plural monas)

1. A type of circular cake, similar to a roscón

• “mona”, 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

From Proto-Polynesian *mona, from Proto-Oceanic *moñak, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *məñak.

mona

1. sweet

• momona
• monamona

• Lemaître, Yves (1995), Lexique du tahitien contemporain [Current Tahitian lexicon]‎^[4] (in French), Paris: Éditions de l'Orstom, →ISBN
• “mona” in Dictionnaire en ligne Tahitien/Français (Online Tahitian–French Dictionary), by the Tahitian Academy.

mona

1. not

mona

1. genitive singular of mon

mona

1. alternative form of moone
   • 1788, VOCABULARY of the LANGUAGE of the Barony of FORTH and BARGIE.^[1]:

     halluf-mona,

     half-moon.

   • 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY^[2]:

     Halluf mond.

     Half moon.