English

Proper noun

Lana

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

     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.

Anagrams

• Alan, alan, Anal, anal

Finnish

Noun

lana

1. leveling drag

Declension

Anagrams

• alan

Hawaiian

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin rāna

Noun

lana

1. frog

Synonyms

• poloka

Ido

Adjective

lana

1. woolen / woollen

Synonyms

• lanala

Related terms

• lano

Italian

Etymology

From Latin lāna, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂wĺ̥h₁neh₂.

Noun

lana f ‎(plural lane)

1. wool

Derived terms

Related terms

• lanoso

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *h₂wĺ̥h₁neh₂ (compare Welsh gwlân, English wool, Lithuanian vìlna, Russian волна ‎(volna)), Latin vellus).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈlaː.na/

Noun

lāna f ‎(genitive lānae); first declension

1. wool
2. vocative singular of lāna

lānā f

1. ablative singular of lāna

Inflection

First declension.

Derived terms

• lānārius
• lānātus
• lāneus
• lānōsus
• lānūgō

Descendants

See also

• laniō

References

• lana in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• lana in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• LANA in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “lana”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.

Lower Sorbian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈlana]

Noun

lana

1. genitive singular of lan
2. nominative dual of lan
3. accusative dual of lan

Romansch

Alternative forms

• (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Puter) launa
• (Sutsilvan) làna
• (Surmiran) langa

Etymology

From Latin lāna.

Noun

lana f

1. (Vallader) wool

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin lāna, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂wĺ̥h₁neh₂. Cognate with Portuguese lã, Galician la, Catalan llana, Occitan lana, French laine, Italian lana and Romanian lână.

Noun

lana f ‎(plural lanas)

1. wool

   Sin variación en los precios de las lanas de merina.

2. (colloquial) cash, money

Synonyms

• (money): dinero, plata, pasta