hani

See also: haní, haņi, and han'i

Estonian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *hanhi, from a Baltic language. Cognate with Finnish hanhi.

Noun

hani (genitive hane, partitive hane)

  1. goose

Declension

Derived terms

  • hanejalg, hanejalad

Hausa

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /há.nìː/
    • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA(key): [há.nìː]

Noun

hanī̀ m (possessed form hanìn)

  1. prohibition

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse hani, from Proto-Germanic *hanô, from Proto-Indo-European *kan- (to sing).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈhaːnɪ/
  • Rhymes: -aːnɪ

Noun

hani m (genitive singular hana, nominative plural hanar)

  1. cock, rooster
  2. faucet, tap
  3. an early riser; a person who rises early in the morning

Declension

Synonyms

Derived terms


Ido

Noun

hani

  1. plural of hano

Latvian

Noun

hani m

  1. nominative plural form of hans
  2. vocative plural form of hans

Laz

Pronoun

hani

  1. Latin spelling of ჰანი (hani)

Mandinka

Adverb

hani

  1. even

Interjection

hani

  1. no

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *hanô, from Proto-Indo-European *kan- (to sing).

Noun

hani m (genitive hana, plural hanar)

  1. a cock, rooster

Declension

Descendants

  • Icelandic: hani
  • Faroese: hani
  • Norwegian: hane
  • Old Swedish: hani
  • Danish: hane
  • Westrobothnian: hana, håna

References

  • hani”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Old Polish

Conjunction

hani

  1. Alternative form of ani.

Particle

hani

  1. Alternative form of ani.

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English honey.

Noun

hani

  1. honey

Turkish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ha.ni/

Etymology 1

From Ottoman Turkish قانی (kanı, where [interrogative] or you know [interjection]), from Old Anatolian Turkish [script needed] (qanï), from Proto-Turkic *kanï (where), a derivation from the interrogative stem *ka-. Cognate with Azerbaijani hanı (where), Old Turkic 𐰴𐰣𐰃 (qanï, where), Karakhanid قَنٖى (qanï̄, where).

Adverb

hani

  1. (interrogative) where
    Hani benim gömleğim?Where is my shirt?
  2. actually, to tell the truth
Usage notes
  • Note: Often used at initial position.
Synonyms

Interjection

hani

  1. you know
  2. Let's suppose that

Etymology 2

From Ottoman Turkish خانی (χani, big red fish), from Greek χάννη (chánni, serranus hepatus).[1]

Noun

hani (definite accusative haniyi, plural haniler)

  1. (zoology) comber

References

  1. Nişanyan, Sevan (2014-08-22), hani2”, in Nişanyan Sözlük

Uneapa

Etymology

From Proto-Oceanic *kani, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kaən-i, from Proto-Austronesian *kaən.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɣani/

Verb

hani

  1. to eat

Further reading

  • Malcolm Ross, Proto Oceanic and the Austronesian Languages of Western Melanesia, Pacific Linguistics, series C-98 (1988)
  • Johnston, R.L. 1982. "Proto-Kimbe and the New Guinea Oceanic hypothesis". In Halim, A., Carrington, L. and Wurm, S.A. editors. Papers from the Third International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics, Vol. 1: Currents in Oceanic, 59-95.
  • Ross, Malcolm D. (2016), Andrew Pawley, editor, The lexicon of Proto-Oceanic: Volume 5, People: body and mind, Canberra: Australian National University, →ISBN, OCLC 40267977; republished as Meredith Osmond, editor,, (please provide a date or year)
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