See also: haní, haņi, and han'i

Estonian

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Etymology

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

Noun

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hani (genitive hane, partitive hane)

  1. goose

Declension

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Declension of hani (ÕS type 20/süli, no gradation)
singular plural
nominative hani haned
accusative nom.
gen. hane
genitive hanede
partitive hane hanesid
illative hanne
hanesse
hanedesse
inessive hanes hanedes
elative hanest hanedest
allative hanele hanedele
adessive hanel hanedel
ablative hanelt hanedelt
translative haneks hanedeks
terminative haneni hanedeni
essive hanena hanedena
abessive haneta hanedeta
comitative hanega hanedega

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Faroese

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Etymology

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

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Noun

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hani m (genitive singular hana, plural hanar)

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

Declension

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Declension of hani
m1 singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative hani hanin hanar hanarnir
accusative hana hanan hanar hanarnar
dative hana hananum hanum hanunum
genitive hana hanans hana hananna

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Hausa

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Pronunciation

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

Noun

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hanī̀ m (possessed form hanìn)

  1. prohibition

Icelandic

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Etymology

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

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Noun

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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

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Synonyms

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Derived terms

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Noun

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hani

  1. plural of hano

Kinaray-a

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Pronunciation

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

Noun

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haní

  1. whisper

Verb

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haní

  1. to whisper

Latvian

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Noun

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hani m

  1. nominative/vocative plural of hans

Pronoun

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hani

  1. Latin spelling of ჰანი (hani)

Mandinka

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Adverb

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hani

  1. even

Interjection

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hani

  1. no

Old Norse

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Etymology

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

Noun

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hani m (genitive hana, plural hanar)

  1. a cock, rooster

Declension

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Descendants

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  • Icelandic: hani
  • Faroese: hani
  • Norwegian: hane
  • Old Swedish: hani
  • Danish: hane

References

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

Old Polish

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Pronunciation

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

Conjunction

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hani

  1. Alternative form of ani

Particle

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hani

  1. Alternative form of ani

Tok Pisin

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Etymology

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From English honey.

Noun

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hani

  1. honey

Turkish

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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From Ottoman Turkish قانی (kanı, where [interrogative] or you know [interjection]),
else Ottoman Turkish هانی (hanı, where [interrogative]),[1]
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

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hani

  1. (interrogative) where
    Synonym: nerede
    Hani benim gömleğim?Where is my shirt?
  2. actually, to tell the truth
    Synonyms: aslında, doğrusu
  3. (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
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  • Note: Often used at initial position.

Interjection

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hani

  1. you know
  2. Let's suppose that
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Etymology 2

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

Noun

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hani (definite accusative haniyi, plural haniler)

  1. (zoology) comber

References

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

Uneapa

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Etymology

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

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Verb

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hani

  1. to eat

Further reading

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  • 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)