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Lani

Lani

See also: lani

English

Proper noun

Lani

  1. (chiefly US) A female given name borrowed from Hawaiian.
  2. (rare) A male given name
    • 1940 Hearst's International combined with Cosmopolitan, v.109, July-December 1940, page 106
      Until then he had not thought of following Lani Aldrich to Honolulu. He had been so sure that she would return to him.
    • 2002 Carol Plum-Ucci, What Happened to Lani Garver, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, ISBN 0152168133, page XI
      Lani pronounced his name Lonny, and someone told me it had been spelled that way at one time. - - - Lonny is a boy's name. Who knows what Lani is?

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Hawaiian

Etymology

lani (sky; royalty). Also a short form of the numerous Hawaiian compound names ending in -lani.

Proper noun

Lani

  1. A female given name.
  2. A male given name; rare today.

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See also: Lani

Hawaiian

Noun

lani

  1. sky
  2. majesty

Verb

lani

  1. (stative) to be heavenly, royal

Ido

Noun

lani

  1. plural of lano

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *olni, from Proto-Indo-European *ol-ney, from *h₂el- (beyond, other). Cognate with Slovene láni, Czech loni, vloni, Slovak vlani, Russian лони (loní), and Latin ōlim (once).

Adverb

lȃni (Cyrillic spelling ла̑ни)

  1. last year

Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *olni, from Proto-Indo-European *ol-ney, from *h₂el- (beyond, other). Cognate with Serbo-Croatian lȃni, Czech loni, vloni, Russian лони (loní), and Latin ōlim (once).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈlàːni/
  • Tonal orthography: láni

Adverb

láni

  1. last year