The Collaborative International Dictionary
Jain \Jain\, Jaina \Jai"na\, prop. n. [Skr. Jaina, fr. Jina, a proper name, fr. jina victorious.] One of a numerous sect in British India, holding the tenets of Jainism.
Wikipedia
JAINA is an acronym for the Federation of Jain Associations in North America, an umbrella organizations to preserve, practice, and promote Jainism in USA and Canada. It was founded in 1981 and formalized in 1983. Among Jain organization it is unique in that it represents Jains of all sects, and thus effectively represents the entire Jain community in USA and Canada.
Usage examples of "jaina".
It stretched around him, gluey, clinging, membranes of goo dividing into thin strings and sagging ropes that bound him with impossible things: wild fantasies of having been captured by a dozen Yuuzhan Vong warriors who all looked like Jacen Solo, mad images of sacrifice and aliens and Jaina and that Nom Anor character.
Jaina looked to her other side, where Eryl Besa sat stiff-bodied and wide-eyed, the victim of a neural tail shock - a voxyn attack form they had not known about until Duman Yaght suggested that Eryl experience it.
Even worse for him, because the entry hatch was so tiny, Jaina had to kneel behind him and very indelicately push him in, and all the while with him conscious of the fact that he was wearing only a skirt.
He continued firing at the distant Jaina Solo and now sideslipped to starboard, distancing himself from Charat Kraal, indicating in no uncertain terms his intent to continue following his own warrior spirit, even if it meant disobeying direct orders.
Coruscant, Jaina glanced at her mother, who looked small and fragile in the oversize seat Chewie had occupied for so many years.
Anakin cut the circle to within a few millimeters of the other side, then activated his comlink to warn Jaina about what they were doing.
C-3PO tightened the focus of his photoreceptors on Master Han, who lowered his head in abject grief, as Jaina stroked his shoulders.
The stormtroopers fired as they charged-using only the curving blue arcs of stun beams, Jaina was relieved to see.
The stormtroopers leveled blaster pistols at Jacen, Jaina, and Lowbacca.
Brakiss led the cluster of stormtroopers that surrounded Jaina, taking them down a corridor to the right.
Though Jaina found the structure of the biotic computer hopelessly bewildering, Lowbacca was engrossed in dissecting the thing, using a small set of steristeel tools to snip here and move there, grunting in satisfaction as the fibers reattached themselves in new locations.
Jaina hefted her power blaster to follow, but then everyone's comlinks popped and hissed static.
Jaina and Lowbacca waited in the bare room as the Brigaders slowly left.
But Jaina was in a killing frenzy and unable to resist the temptation of a 150-meter Yuuzhan Vong frigate sitting motionless on the surface, its debarking ramp still hanging open like the mouth of a winded dewback.
At the moment,Whip Hand was rolling toward Jaina and her approaching squadron, almost eclipsing her view of the damaged cruiser.