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vani

vani noun: a custom in parts of Pakistan where girls, often minors, are given in marriage or servitude to an aggrieved family as compensation for a dispute, often over murder.

Noun

vani (uncountable)

  1. A custom in parts of Pakistan where girls, often minors, are given in marriage or servitude to an aggrieved family as compensation for a dispute, often over murder.
    Synonyms:
    swara

Proper noun (1) capitalized: Vani

Vani

  1. A city in the country of Georgia.

Proper noun (2) capitalized: Vani

Vani

  1. A female given name from Sanskrit commonly used in India.
    • On a recent Thursday, Vani Hari, perhaps Public Enemy No. 1 of big food companies, sat at ABC Kitchen in the Flatiron district wearing a purple sweater with a giant pink heart and pink heart-shaped crystal earrings.2015 March 13, Courtney Rubin, “Taking On the Food Industry, One Blog Post at a Time”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 20 Mar 2015

Synonyms of vani

Forms of vani

alternative formVaani

Origin of vani

Borrowed from Georgian ვანი (vani).

Borrowed from Sanskrit वाणि (vāṇi).

Questions about vani

What does vani mean?
Vani means a custom in parts of Pakistan where girls, often minors, are given in marriage or servitude to an aggrieved family as compensation for a dispute, often over murder.
What part of speech is vani?
Vani can be a noun or a proper noun.

Words near vani in the dictionary

  1. Vanhornes
  2. Vanhorns
  3. Vanhouten
  4. Vanhoy
  5. Vanhoys
  6. vani
  7. Vania
  8. Vanier
  9. Vaniers
  10. Vanikolo
  11. vanikorid

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