niña
noun
girl; child.
niña
1 American
[nee-nyah]
/ ˈni njɑ /
noun
Spanish.
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niñas
plural
Nina
2
American
[nee-nuh, nahy-]
/ ˈni nə, ˈnaɪ- /
noun
Niña
3
American
[neen-yuh, nee-nuh, nee-nyah]
/ ˈnin jə, ˈni nə, ˈni njɑ /
noun
Niña
British
/ ˈniːnə, ˈniɲa /
noun
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Oh, yeah, it was “La niña de la mochila azul” and it’s a classic Pedro Fernandez song.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2024
“I saw how people treated me by being la hija perfecta, the good student, good citizen and la niña buena,” she said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 24, 2023
“Mi niña, mi niña mujer,” the man said, crooning a lyric from a hit song of the same name.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 6, 2021
Speaking of developments, look at that niña leaning against the church!
From Salon ● Sep. 7, 2012
“Be well, niña, you taught us so much in so little time,” she says.
From "Across So Many Seas" by Ruth Behar
Something else Ivan and Nina share is physical labor.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026
La Nina years, when the central and eastern tropical Pacific is cooler than normal, were producing stronger effects than their rating suggested, and El Ninos weaker ones.
From Barron's ● Oct. 19, 2026
But it’s something she can do not only for Nina, but for every other vulnerable woman.
From Salon ● Oct. 2, 2026
As the series begins, the chief fracas involves Nina, an LPA mom who also owns a Pilates studio and teaches free exercise classes to the boys at the school.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
“I heard from Nina who heard from Zach that Sandy went to the library yesterday.”
From "King and the Dragonflies" by Kacen Callender
With the most recent La Niña just ending, “we’re still in the crosshairs.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026
During La Niña, warmer waters remain farther west, strengthening monsoon rains across parts of South and Southeast Asia.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 3, 2026
La Niña typically brings wetter conditions to parts of Australia, Indonesia and equatorial South America, and drier conditions to the southern US.
From BBC ● Jun. 9, 2026
El Niño has a sister weather pattern called La Niña.
From BBC ● Jun. 9, 2026
The Niña, so-called after the Niño family of Palos, who owned her, was still smaller, being only forty tons.
From Christopher Columbus and His Monument Columbia being a concordance of choice tributes to the great Genoese, his grand discovery, and his greatness of mind and purpose by J. M. (John Marcus) Dickey
“Is that really you? ¿Mis niñas? ¿Mis nietecitas?” she asked happily.
From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall
She carefully tucks her perfectly curled hair into a swim cap and then says, “Well, niñas, tell me: Do you know how to swim?”
From "Across So Many Seas" by Ruth Behar
His voice reached me from without— “‘Las niñas de Durango Commigo bailandas, Al cielo—!’
From The Scalp Hunters by F.A. Stewart
The tracks of riderless horses, the footsteps of walking women—tender girls and children—upon that long tiresome trail, had for me a cruel significance—those slender tiny tracks of pretty feet—pobres niñas!
From The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse by Mayne Reid
This gentleman seeing the gitanilla, called out, "Come up here, niñas, and we will give you something."
From The Exemplary Novels of Cervantes by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
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