Una

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proper noun

A female given name from Irish.

CommonScrabble 3

Meanings

Una1

proper noun
  1. A female given name from Irish.

    Who after that he had faire Una lorne, / Through light misdeeming of her loialtie, / And false Duessa in her sted had borne, […]

    1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 2

Una2

proper noun
  1. A tributary of the Sava, between Bosnia and Croatia

Una3

proper noun

UNA4

nounUNA (plural UNAs)

plural UNAs

  1. abbreviationinitialismbiologyInitialism of unlocked nucleic acid.

Origin

Una · proper noun

  1. IrishÚna
  2. EnglishUna

Anglicized form of Irish Úna. Doublet of Oona.

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Una · proper noun

  1. Proto-Indo-European*h₁weh₂-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*h₁uh₂-nó-s
  3. Proto-Indo-Iranian*HuHnás
  4. Sanskritऊ॒न (ūná)
  5. Prakritऊण (ūṇa)
  6. Hindiऊना (ūnā)
  7. EnglishUna

Borrowed from Hindi ऊना (ūnā).

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Rhymes & wordplay

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Cite this entry
APA

Una. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Una

MLA

“Una.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Una. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Una,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Una.

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