vani
See also: Appendix:Variations of "vani"
English
editNoun
editvani (uncountable)
- A custom in parts of Pakistan where girls, often minors, are given in marriage or servitude to an aggrieved family as compensation for a dispute, often over murder.
- Synonym: swara
Anagrams
editCatalan
editPronunciation
editVerb
editvani
- only used in em vani, first-person singular present subjunctive of vanar-se
- only used in es vani, third-person singular present subjunctive of vanar-se
- only used in vani's, third-person singular imperative of vanar-se
Icelandic
editEtymology
editFrom Old Norse vani (“a custom, a habit”).
Pronunciation
edit- Rhymes: -aːnɪ
Noun
editvani m (genitive singular vana, nominative plural vanar)
Declension
editDerived terms
editReferences
edit- Kristín Bjarnadóttir, editor (2002–2024), “vani”, in Beygingarlýsing íslensks nútímamáls [The Database of Modern Icelandic Inflection] (in Icelandic), Reykjavík: The Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies
Italian
editPronunciation
editEtymology 1
editAdjective
editvani
Noun
editvani m
Etymology 2
editVerb
editvani
- inflection of vanare:
Anagrams
editLala (New Guinea)
editNumeral
editvani
Further reading
edit- Malcolm Ross, Proto Oceanic and the Austronesian Languages of Western Melanesia, Pacific Linguistics, series C-98 (1988)
Latin
editPronunciation
edit- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈu̯aː.niː/, [ˈu̯äːniː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈva.ni/, [ˈväːni]
Adjective
editvānī
Serbo-Croatian
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editInherited from Proto-Slavic *vъnъ, *vъně (Russian вне (vne), Old Polish wen).
Pronunciation
editAdverb
editvàni (Cyrillic spelling ва̀ни)
- outside, outdoors, out [with genitive]
- Petar je vani, ako njega tražiš. ― Petar is outside, if you are looking for him.
- Toplije je vani nego unutra! ― It is warmer outside than inside!
- abroad, overseas
- Kad su se preselili nazad u Bosnu, pričali su nam kakav je život vani. ― When they moved back to Bosnia, they told us what life is like abroad.
Antonyms
editSee also
editReferences
edit- “vani”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024
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