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Lanai.

The sixth largest island of Hawaii, mostly privately owned.

5 characters2 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

name/ləˈnaɪ/
  1. The sixth largest island of Hawaii, mostly privately owned.

Where this word comes from

From Hawaiian Lānaʻi, probably from lā (“day”) + naʻi (“conquest”), usually taken to reference an occasion when the wayward Mauian prince Kauluāʻau supposedly brought order to the island by expelling its ghosts and demons.

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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.