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Lani

Lani proper noun: a female given name from Hawaiian.

Proper noun

Lani

  1. (US) A female given name from Hawaiian.
    • Until then he had not thought of following Lani Aldrich to Honolulu. He had been so sure that she would return to him.1940, Hearst's International combined with Cosmopolitan, v.109, July-December 1940, page 106
  2. (rare) A male given name.
    • 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?2002, Carol Plum-Ucci, What Happened to Lani Garver, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN, page XI

Noun

Lani pl (plural only)

  1. (plural, plural-only) An indigenous people of Puncak, Central Papua and Lanny Jaya, Highland Papua.

Origin of Lani

Borrowed from Hawaiian Lani.

Questions about Lani

What does Lani mean?
Lani means a female given name from Hawaiian.
What part of speech is Lani?
Lani can be a proper noun or a noun.

Words near Lani in the dictionary

  1. Langworthys
  2. Langya
  3. Langå
  4. Lanham
  5. Lanhams
  6. Lani
  7. Laniakea
  8. laniard
  9. laniards
  10. laniaries
  11. laniariform

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