Etymology

lanai

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Hawaiian lānai
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lanai · noun1

  1. Hawaiian · borrowed fromlānai
  2. Hawaiian · borrowed fromlānai
  3. English todaylanai

Borrowed from Hawaiian lānai.

Lanai · proper noun2

  1. Hawaiian · borrowed fromLānaʻi
  2. English todayLanai

From Hawaiian Lānaʻi, probably from lā (“day”) + naʻi (“conquest”), usually taken to reference an occasion when the wayward Mauian prince Kauluāʻau supposedly brought order to the island by expelling its ghosts and demons.

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