حِنّاء

The word in other languages

Each form in its own language's script, with its sources. Anything marked "single source" has only one source we could find, so it is shown on this page only, not on the card.

• Turkish kına on the card

  henna

  Sources: Nişanyan, Turkish etymological dictionary (via etimolojiturkce.com); Wiktionary (English edition)

• Turkish kına gecesi single source

  the henna night before a wedding

  Sources: Wiktionary (English edition)

• Persian حنا hanâ on the card

  henna

  Sources: Steingass, A Comprehensive Persian-English Dictionary (1892), University of Chicago edition; Wiktionary (English edition)

• Urdu حنا hinā on the card

  henna; its Indian name is mehndī

  Sources: Platts, A Dictionary of Urdu, Classical Hindi and English (1884), University of Chicago edition; Wiktionary (English edition)

• Urdu حنابندی ḥinnā-bandī single source

  the ceremony of sending henna to the bride

  Sources: Platts, A Dictionary of Urdu, Classical Hindi and English (1884), University of Chicago edition

• Indonesian inai single source – its Arabic origin

  henna: the shrub, and the leaves used to redden the nails

  Sources: KBBI, the official Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language; Wiktionary (English edition)

• Malay inai in Jawi script: ايناي single source – its Arabic origin

  henna; hence berinai, to be hennaed for a wedding

  Sources: Kamus Dewan, 4th edition, on the PRPM portal of Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, Malaysia; Wiktionary (English edition)

• Swahili hina on the card

  henna, from the shrub mhina

  Sources: Madan, Swahili-English Dictionary (Oxford, 1903); Rechenbach, Swahili-English Dictionary (Catholic University of America, 1967); Wiktionary (English edition)