sona

See also: Appendix:Variations of "sona"

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English

Noun

sona (plural sonas)

1. (fandom slang) Clipping of fursona.
   • 2020, Kathy Merlock Jackson, Kathy Shepherd Stolley, Lisa Lyon Payne, Animals and Ourselves: Essays on Connections and Blurred Boundaries, McFarland, →ISBN:

     Especially interesting in this regard are furries with more than one fursona. […] Consider, for instance, how Muse describes his two fursonas: My two current sonas are a bat and a rabbit.

2. (fandom slang, by extension) Clipping of any term suffixed with -sona.
   • 2024 July 4, Scarlett Bittle, “What is a Sona?”, in CharacterHub‎:

     A sona’s main job is to represent the artist who created it. A sona is sort of like a self insert character in a fanfiction.

   • 2025 November 4, Holly Swinyard, Fans and Fandom: A Journey into the Passion and Power of Fan Culture‎, Casemate Publishers, →ISBN:

     Look, if you didn't have a Sonic 'sona' (not that we called them that, all those moons ago when I was young) when you were a kid then have you really lived in fandom?

Anagrams

• Onas, Noas, AONs, Naso, Naos, naos, naso-, ONAs, Sano

Atong (India)

Etymology

From Bengali সোনা (śōna) or Hindi सोना (sonā), from Sanskrit सुवर्ण (suvarṇa).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sʰona/

Noun

sona (Bengali script সোনা)

1. gold

References

• van Breugel, Seino. 2015. Atong-English dictionary, second edition. Available online: https://www.academia.edu/487044/Atong_English_Dictionary.

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈsɔ.nə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈsɔ.na]
• Rhymes: -ɔna

Verb

sona

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

Cebuano

Etymology

From English zone, from Latin zōna, from Ancient Greek ζώνη (zṓnē, “girdle, belt”).

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: so‧na

Noun

sona

1. a zone; a given area distinguished on the basis of a particular characteristic, use, restriction, etc.

Chuukese

Verb

sona

1. (intransitive) to steal

Crimean Tatar

Noun

sona (accusative [please provide], plural [please provide])

1. wasp

Galician

Etymology

Attested since 1708. From son (“sound”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsona/ [ˈs̺o.nɐ]
• Rhymes: -ona
• Hyphenation: so‧na

Noun

sona f (plural sonas)

1. rumor; word of mouth
2. fame; reputation

   Synonyms: fama, nome, reputación

References

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “sona”, 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), “sona”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “sona”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Icelandic

Noun

sona

1. indefinite genitive plural of sonur