hani

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

Faroese

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhɛaːnɪ/
• Rhymes: -ɛaːnɪ

Noun

hani m (genitive singular hana, plural hanar)

1. cock, rooster
2. (guns) hammer of a firearm

Declension

Derived terms

• byrsuhani
• knurrhani
• óðinshani
• reyðhani
• veðurhani

Related terms

• høna

Hausa

Pronunciation

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

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

• (tap): krani

Derived terms

• brunahani
• morgunhani

Related terms

• hæna

Ido

Noun

hani

1. plural of hano

Kinaray-a

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /haˈni/,
• Hyphenation: ha‧ni

Noun

haní

1. whisper

Verb

haní

1. to whisper

Latvian

Noun

hani m

1. nominative/vocative plural 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
  • Swedish: hane
• Danish: hane

References

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

Old Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (10^th–15^th CE) /xani/
• IPA^(key): (15^th CE) /xani/

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 or you know ”),
else Ottoman Turkish هانی (hanı, “where ”),
from Old Anatolian Turkish (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

• nerede
• aslında
• doğrusu

Interjection

hani

1. you know
2. Let's suppose that

Related terms

• hangi

References

Etymology 2

From Ottoman Turkish خانی (χani, “big red fish”), from Greek χάννη (chánni, “serranus hepatus”).

Noun

hani (definite accusative haniyi, plural haniler)

1. (zoology) comber

References

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; republished as Meredith Osmond, editor, (Please provide a date or year)