Lanai

See also: lanai, lānai, and Lānaʻi

English

Alternative forms
  • Lana'i

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

IPA(key): /ləˈnaɪ/

Proper noun

Lanai

  1. The sixth largest island of Hawaii, mostly privately owned.

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