Minna

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Minna

1. The largest city and state capital of Niger State, Nigeria.
   • 2023, Stephen Buoro, The Five Sorrowful Mysteries of Andy Africa, Bloomsbury Circus, page 174:

     Morocca says that, since the ambulances came from Minna, he’s sure the road is safe.

From German Minna.

Minna

1. a female given name

From German Minna.

Minna

1. a female given name

Minna f

1. a female given name

Matronymics

• son of Minna: Minnuson
• daughter of Minna: Minnudóttir

Borrowed from German Minna in the nineteenth century.

• IPA^(key): /ˈminːɑ/, [ˈminːɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -inːɑ
• Syllabification^(key): Min‧na

Minna

1. a female given name
   • 1959, Väinö Linna, Täällä Pohjantähden alla 1, WSOY, published 1965, page 104:

     Ajatuksissaan kirkkoherra nimitti Helsingistä mukana tuotua taloudenhoitajaa Minnaksi, vaikka Ellen meni siinäkin naurettavuuteen asti, että nimityksen pitäisi kuulua Miina.

     In his thoughts, the vicar called the housekeeper brought over from Helsinki Minna, even though Ellen went almost to a ridiculous extent to say that she should be called Miina.

   • 1970, Veronica Pimenoff, Pohjoiset pelit, Tammi, →ISBN, page 103:

     Senkin nimi oli Minna. Minna oli kuullut sen äidin huutavan sitä. Pari vuotta sitten Minna-nimi olikin ollut muodissa, tuon ikäisiä Minnoja vilisi joka paikassa. Toista oli hänen aikanaan, kun koulussa muut haukkuivat Minna Canthiksi ja huusivat perään että "Miina, Miina, kahvi kiehuu, Miina menee ja hakee sen keittiöstä nyt!"

     She was called Minna too. Minna had heard her mother call for her. A couple of years later Minna was a fashionable name and there were Minnas of the same age everywhere. It was different back in her time, when the others mocked her by calling her Minna Canth and rhyming "Miina, Miina, kahvi kiehuu, Miina menee ja hakee sen keittiöstä nyt!" [Miina, Miina, the coffee's ready, Miina should go get it from the kitchen now!].

Very popular in Finland the 1960s and 1970s.

• Minna is the 6^th most common female given name in Finland, belonging to 27,615 female individuals (and as a middle name to 1,917 more), according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.

• manin, minan, namin

A pet form of Wilhelmina made well known by the comedy Minna von Barnhelm (1767) by G. E. Lessing.

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Minna

1. a female given name

• “Minna” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “Minna (Hausangestellte, Polizeiwagen)” in Duden online
• “Minna” in Duden online