Lana

See also: Appendix:Variations of "lana"

English

Etymology

Short form of Alana, or from Russian Лана (Lana), diminutive of several names including Светла́на (Svetlána).

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

Lana

1. A female given name from Russian.
   • 1942 September 5, Irving Wallace, “The Loves of Lana Turner”, in Liberty magazine:

     Mervyn LeRoy, the boyish cigar-smoking director who signed her, didn't like her name Julia. So she thought awhile and said, "What about Lana?" For no reason at all it became Lana - pronounced Lah-nah.

   • 2013, Matt Haig, The Humans, Canongate, →ISBN, page 832:

     I discovered that her full name was Margaret Lowell. I wasn't an expert on Earth names, but I still knew this was wildly inappropriate. She should have been called Lana Bellcurve or Ashley Brainsex or something.

Anagrams

• Alan, Anal, Nala, alan, anal, anal., nala

German

Proper noun

Lana n (proper noun, genitive Lanas or (optionally with an article) Lana)

1. A municipality of South Tyrol

Icelandic

Proper noun

Lana f (proper noun, genitive singular Lönu)

1. a female given name

Declension

Declension of Lana (sg-only feminine)

indefinite singular
nominative	Lana
accusative	Lönu
dative	Lönu
genitive	Lönu

Slovene

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /láːna/

Proper noun

Lȃna f

1. a female given name

Declension

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.

Feminine, a-stem
nom. sing.	Lana
gen. sing.	Lane
	singular	dual	plural
nominative (imenovȃlnik)	Lana	Lani	Lane
genitive (rodȋlnik)	Lane	Lan	Lan
dative (dajȃlnik)	Lani	Lanama	Lanam
accusative (tožȋlnik)	Lano	Lani	Lane
locative (mẹ̑stnik)	Lani	Lanah	Lanah
instrumental (orọ̑dnik)	Lano	Lanama	Lanami

Further reading

• “Lana”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene), 2014–2024