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vani

See also: Appendix:Variations of "vani"

English

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Noun

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vani (uncountable)

  1. 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

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Catalan

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Verb

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vani

  1. only used in em vani, first-person singular present subjunctive of vanar-se
  2. only used in es vani, third-person singular present subjunctive of vanar-se
  3. only used in vani's, third-person singular imperative of vanar-se

Icelandic

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Etymology

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From Old Norse vani (“a custom, a habit”).

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Noun

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vani m (genitive singular vana, nominative plural vanar)

  1. a habit, a custom
    Synonym: venja

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Italian

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈva.ni/
  • Rhymes: -ani
  • Hyphenation: và‧ni

Etymology 1

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Adjective

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vani

  1. masculine plural of vano

Noun

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vani m

  1. plural of vano

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Verb

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vani

  1. inflection of vanare:
    1. second-person singular present indicative/present subjunctive
    2. first-person singular present subjunctive
    3. third-person singular present subjunctive/imperative

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Lala (New Guinea)

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Numeral

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vani

  1. four

Further reading

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  • Malcolm Ross, Proto Oceanic and the Austronesian Languages of Western Melanesia, Pacific Linguistics, series C-98 (1988)

Latin

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vānī

  1. inflection of vānus:
    1. nominative/vocative masculine plural
    2. genitive masculine/neuter singular

Serbo-Croatian

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Inherited from Proto-Slavic *vъnъ, *vъně (Russian вне (vne), Old Polish wen).

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  • IPA(key): /ʋǎni/
  • Hyphenation: va‧ni

Adverb

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vàni (Cyrillic spelling ва̀ни)

  1. 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!
  2. 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.

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References

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  • “vani”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024
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