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lana

/ˈlɑːnə/

lana noun: the tree Genipa americana.

Noun

lana

  1. The tree Genipa americana.

Proper noun capitalized: Lana

Lana

  1. A female given name from Russian.
    • Mervyn LeRoy, the boyish cigar-smoking director who signed her, didn't like her name Julia. So she thought awhile and said, "What about Lana?" For no reason at all it became Lana - pronounced Lah-nah.1942 September 5, Irving Wallace, “The Loves of Lana Turner”, in Liberty magazine
    • I discovered that her full name was Margaret Lowell. I wasn't an expert on Earth names, but I still knew this was wildly inappropriate. She should have been called Lana Bellcurve or Ashley Brainsex or something.2013, Matt Haig, The Humans, Canongate, →ISBN, page 832

lana meaning in Tamil, Marathi, Bengali and Telugu

lana in Tamil

லானா, லனா

lana in Marathi

लना

lana in Bengali

লানা

lana in Telugu

లానా
More languagesFewer languages
lana in Malayalam
ലാന, ലനാ
lana in Kannada
ಲಾನಾ
lana in Punjabi
ਲਾਨਾ
lana in Gujarati
લાના
lana in Odia
ଲାନା
lana in Nepali
लाना

Origin of lana

Short form of Alana, or from Russian Ла́на (Lána), diminutive of several names including Светла́на (Svetlána).

Words formed from lana

Questions about lana

What does lana mean?
Lana means the tree Genipa americana.
What is lana in Tamil?
Lana in Tamil is லானா, லனா. See Lana meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is lana?
Lana can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce lana?
Lana is pronounced /ˈlɑːnə/.

Words near lana in the dictionary

  1. Lan Tau
  2. Lan Xang
  3. Lan-chou
  4. Lan-t'ien
  5. Lan.
  6. lana
  7. lanadoxin
  8. lanafolein
  9. Lanagan
  10. Lanagans
  11. lanagitoside

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Adapted from Wiktionary: lana (page history and authors); Lana (page history and authors); lana (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); lana (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); lana (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); lana (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); lana (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); lana (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); lana (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); lana (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); lana (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); lana (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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