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Estonian
Etymology
From Proto-Finnic *hanhi, from a Baltic language. Cognate with Finnish hanhi.
Noun
hani (genitive hane, partitive hane)
- goose
Declension
Derived terms
Faroese
Etymology
From Old Norse hani, from Proto-Germanic *hanô, from Proto-Indo-European *kan- (“to sing”).
Pronunciation
Noun
hani m (genitive singular hana, plural hanar)
- cock, rooster
- (guns) hammer of a firearm
Declension
Derived terms
Hausa
Pronunciation
Noun
hanī̀ m (possessed form hanìn)
- prohibition
Icelandic
Etymology
From Old Norse hani, from Proto-Germanic *hanô, from Proto-Indo-European *kan- (“to sing”).
Pronunciation
Noun
hani m (genitive singular hana, nominative plural hanar)
- cock, rooster
- faucet, tap
- Synonym: krani
- an early riser; a person who rises early in the morning
Declension
Declension of hani (masculine)
Derived terms
Ido
Noun
hani
- plural of hano
Kinaray-a
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /haˈni/,
- Hyphenation: ha‧ni
Noun
haní
- whisper
Verb
haní
- to whisper
Latvian
Noun
hani m
- nominative/vocative plural of hans
Laz
Pronoun
hani
- Latin spelling of ჰანი (hani)
Mandinka
Adverb
hani
- even
Interjection
hani
- no
Old Norse
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *hanô, from Proto-Indo-European *kan- (“to sing”).
Noun
hani m (genitive hana, plural hanar)
- a cock, rooster
Declension
Declension of hani (weak an-stem)
Descendants
References
- “hani”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Old Polish
Pronunciation
Conjunction
hani
- Alternative form of ani
Particle
hani
- Alternative form of ani
Tok Pisin
Etymology
From English honey.
Noun
hani
- honey
Turkish
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Ottoman Turkish قانی (kanı, “where or you know ”) or Ottoman Turkish هانی (hanı, “where ”),[1] 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
- (interrogative) where
- Synonym: nerede
- Hani benim gömleğim? ― Where is my shirt?
- actually, to tell the truth
- Synonyms: aslında, doğrusu
- (interrogative) used when the speaker perceives an action as incomplete that the listener was supposed to perform
- hani dedin benden başka kimseyi sevmediğini? ― didn't you say you didn't love anyone but me?
- hani ödevini yapacaktın? ― weren't you gonna do your homework?
Usage notes
- Note: Often used at initial position.
Interjection
hani
- you know
- Let's suppose that
References
Etymology 2
From Ottoman Turkish خانی (hani, “big red fish”), from Greek χάννη (chánni, “serranus hepatus”).[1]
Noun
hani (definite accusative haniyi, plural haniler)
- (zoology) comber
References
Uneapa
Etymology
From Proto-Oceanic *kani, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kaən-i, from Proto-Austronesian *kaən.
Pronunciation
Verb
hani
- 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)