See Lani on Wiktionary
{
"etymology_number": 1,
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "haw",
"3": "Lani"
},
"expansion": "Borrowed from Hawaiian Lani",
"name": "bor+"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Borrowed from Hawaiian Lani.",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "Lani",
"name": "en-proper noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "name",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "American English",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "topical",
"name": "English female given names",
"parents": [
"Female given names",
"Given names",
"Names",
"All topics",
"Proper nouns",
"Terms by semantic function",
"Fundamental",
"Nouns",
"Lemmas"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "topical",
"name": "English given names",
"parents": [
"Given names",
"Names",
"All topics",
"Proper nouns",
"Terms by semantic function",
"Fundamental",
"Nouns",
"Lemmas"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"_dis": "43 45 12",
"kind": "topical",
"name": "English unisex given names",
"parents": [
"Unisex given names",
"Given names",
"Names",
"All topics",
"Proper nouns",
"Terms by semantic function",
"Fundamental",
"Nouns",
"Lemmas"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1940, Hearst's International combined with Cosmopolitan, v.109, July-December 1940, page 106:",
"text": "Until then he had not thought of following Lani Aldrich to Honolulu. He had been so sure that she would return to him.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A female given name from Hawaiian."
],
"id": "en-Lani-en-name-UWGPZdrI",
"links": [
[
"given name",
"given name"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(chiefly US) A female given name from Hawaiian."
],
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "topical",
"name": "English given names",
"parents": [
"Given names",
"Names",
"All topics",
"Proper nouns",
"Terms by semantic function",
"Fundamental",
"Nouns",
"Lemmas"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "topical",
"name": "English male given names",
"parents": [
"Male given names",
"Given names",
"Names",
"All topics",
"Proper nouns",
"Terms by semantic function",
"Fundamental",
"Nouns",
"Lemmas"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"_dis": "43 45 12",
"kind": "topical",
"name": "English unisex given names",
"parents": [
"Unisex given names",
"Given names",
"Names",
"All topics",
"Proper nouns",
"Terms by semantic function",
"Fundamental",
"Nouns",
"Lemmas"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2002, Carol Plum-Ucci, What Happened to Lani Garver, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN, page XI:",
"text": "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?",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A male given name."
],
"id": "en-Lani-en-name-yDfLNrGi",
"links": [
[
"given name",
"given name"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(rare) A male given name."
],
"tags": [
"rare"
]
}
],
"word": "Lani"
}
{
"etymology_number": 2,
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "Lani people"
},
"expansion": "",
"name": "wp"
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "p"
},
"expansion": "Lani pl (plural only)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "26 20 54",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "31 25 45",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English pluralia tantum",
"parents": [
"Pluralia tantum",
"Nouns",
"Lemmas"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "21 21 58",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 2 entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "15 15 70",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "43 45 12",
"kind": "topical",
"name": "English unisex given names",
"parents": [
"Unisex given names",
"Given names",
"Names",
"All topics",
"Proper nouns",
"Terms by semantic function",
"Fundamental",
"Nouns",
"Lemmas"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"glosses": [
"An indigenous people of Puncak, Central Papua and Lanny Jaya, Highland Papua."
],
"id": "en-Lani-en-noun-DGiDWy-C",
"tags": [
"plural",
"plural-only"
]
}
],
"word": "Lani"
}
{
"descendants": [
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "Lani",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ English: Lani",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ English: Lani"
}
],
"etymology_text": "lani (“sky; royalty”). Also a short form of the numerous Hawaiian compound names ending in -lani.",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "haw",
"2": "proper noun"
},
"expansion": "Lani",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Hawaiian",
"lang_code": "haw",
"pos": "name",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Hawaiian entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "topical",
"name": "Hawaiian female given names",
"parents": [
"Female given names",
"Given names",
"Names",
"All topics",
"Proper nouns",
"Terms by semantic function",
"Fundamental",
"Nouns",
"Lemmas"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "topical",
"name": "Hawaiian given names",
"parents": [
"Given names",
"Names",
"All topics",
"Proper nouns",
"Terms by semantic function",
"Fundamental",
"Nouns",
"Lemmas"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "topical",
"name": "Hawaiian male given names",
"parents": [
"Male given names",
"Given names",
"Names",
"All topics",
"Proper nouns",
"Terms by semantic function",
"Fundamental",
"Nouns",
"Lemmas"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 2 entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
}
],
"glosses": [
"a female or (rarely) male given name from Hawaiian"
],
"id": "en-Lani-haw-name-XC9oy3n6",
"links": [
[
"given name",
"given name"
]
],
"related": [
{
"word": "Kalani"
},
{
"word": "Laniakea"
},
{
"word": "Nālani"
}
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈla.ni/"
},
{
"ipa": "[ˈlɐ.ni]"
}
],
"word": "Lani"
}
{
"categories": [
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English pluralia tantum",
"English proper nouns",
"English terms borrowed from Hawaiian",
"English terms derived from Hawaiian",
"English uncountable nouns",
"English unisex given names",
"Pages with 2 entries",
"Pages with entries"
],
"etymology_number": 1,
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "haw",
"3": "Lani"
},
"expansion": "Borrowed from Hawaiian Lani",
"name": "bor+"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Borrowed from Hawaiian Lani.",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "Lani",
"name": "en-proper noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "name",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"American English",
"English female given names",
"English female given names from Hawaiian",
"English given names",
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1940, Hearst's International combined with Cosmopolitan, v.109, July-December 1940, page 106:",
"text": "Until then he had not thought of following Lani Aldrich to Honolulu. He had been so sure that she would return to him.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A female given name from Hawaiian."
],
"links": [
[
"given name",
"given name"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(chiefly US) A female given name from Hawaiian."
],
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English given names",
"English male given names",
"English terms with quotations",
"English terms with rare senses"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2002, Carol Plum-Ucci, What Happened to Lani Garver, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN, page XI:",
"text": "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?",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A male given name."
],
"links": [
[
"given name",
"given name"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(rare) A male given name."
],
"tags": [
"rare"
]
}
],
"word": "Lani"
}
{
"categories": [
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English pluralia tantum",
"English unisex given names",
"Pages with 2 entries",
"Pages with entries"
],
"etymology_number": 2,
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "Lani people"
},
"expansion": "",
"name": "wp"
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "p"
},
"expansion": "Lani pl (plural only)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"An indigenous people of Puncak, Central Papua and Lanny Jaya, Highland Papua."
],
"tags": [
"plural",
"plural-only"
]
}
],
"word": "Lani"
}
{
"descendants": [
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "Lani",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ English: Lani",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ English: Lani"
}
],
"etymology_text": "lani (“sky; royalty”). Also a short form of the numerous Hawaiian compound names ending in -lani.",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "haw",
"2": "proper noun"
},
"expansion": "Lani",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Hawaiian",
"lang_code": "haw",
"pos": "name",
"related": [
{
"word": "Kalani"
},
{
"word": "Laniakea"
},
{
"word": "Nālani"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Hawaiian entries with incorrect language header",
"Hawaiian female given names",
"Hawaiian female given names from Hawaiian",
"Hawaiian given names",
"Hawaiian lemmas",
"Hawaiian male given names",
"Hawaiian male given names from Hawaiian",
"Hawaiian proper nouns",
"Hawaiian terms with IPA pronunciation",
"Pages with 2 entries",
"Pages with entries"
],
"glosses": [
"a female or (rarely) male given name from Hawaiian"
],
"links": [
[
"given name",
"given name"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈla.ni/"
},
{
"ipa": "[ˈlɐ.ni]"
}
],
"word": "Lani"
}
Download raw JSONL data for Lani meaning in All languages combined (3.5kB)
{
"called_from": "form_description/20250107",
"msg": "Form tags without form: desc='plural plural-only', tagsets=[('plural', 'plural-only')]",
"path": [
"Lani"
],
"section": "English",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "Lani",
"trace": ""
}
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-01-25 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-01-20 using wiktextract (c15a5ce and 5c11237). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.