lana

1. The tree Genipa americana.

• lana dye

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

lana

1. (Mpakwithi) tongue

• Terry Crowley, The Mpakwithi dialect of Anguthimri (1981), page 186

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *laña.

• Hyphenation: la‧na
• IPA^(key): /ˈlana/ [ˈl̪a.n̪ɐ]

lána (Badlit spelling ᜎᜈ)

1. gasoline; petrol
2. wave that looks like a thin film of oil on the surface
3. medicinal aromatic oil
4. (folklore) oil that supposedly grants the ungo the abilities of flight, shapeshifting, etc.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlana/ [ˈl̪a.n̪a]
• Hyphenation: la‧na

Borrowed from Spanish lana (“wool”), from Latin lāna.

lána (Basahan spelling ᜎᜈ)

1. wool

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *laña.

lána (Basahan spelling ᜎᜈ)

1. cooking oil

   Synonym: manteka

• lan (Mañegu, Valverdeñu)

From Old Galician-Portuguese lãa, from Latin lāna.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlana/
• Rhymes: -ana
• Syllabification: la‧na

lana f (plural lanas)

1. (Lagarteiru) wool

• Valeš, Miroslav (2021), Diccionariu de A Fala: lagarteiru, mañegu, valverdeñu (web)‎^[1], 2nd edition, Minde, Portugal: CIDLeS, published 2022, →ISBN

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɑnɑ/, [ˈlɑ̝nɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -ɑnɑ
• Syllabification^(key): la‧na
• Hyphenation^(key): la‧na

Possibly borrowed from Swedish plana (“to level, flatten”).

lana

1. field drag, leveling drag

   Synonym: lata

2. blade (landscaping or snow clearing tool, often dragged by a vehicle)

• “lana”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 1 July 2023

Possibly borrowed from dialectal Swedish lana, if not the other way around.

lana

1. a bag-shaped fishing net; fyke

• alan

• lanna (ORB, narrow)

Inherited from Latin lāna.

lana f (plural lanes) (ORB, broad)

1. wool

• laine in DicoFranPro: Dictionnaire Français/Francoprovençal – on dicofranpro.llm.umontreal.ca
• lana in Lo trèsor Arpitan – on arpitan.eu

• AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 1077: “la lana” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
• ALF: Atlas Linguistique de la France^[3] – map 744 – on lig-tdcge.imag.fr
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “lana”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 5: J L, page 147

• IPA^(key): /ˈla.na/, [ˈlɐ.nə]

From Proto-Polynesian *langa (“be afloat, buoyant”).^[1][2] Cognate with Māori ranga (“shoal of fish”).

lana

1. floating, buoyant, adrift

   lana ke koko

   high blood pressure

   (literally, “buoyant blood”)

2. calm, still (water)

lana

1. (stative) to float, drift
2. (stative, of blood) to circulate, be circulating
3. (stative) to want, have hopes
4. (stative) to be aware of sounds as one wakes up

   lana ka hiamoe

   waking from sleep

Learned borrowing from Latin rāna, possibly introduced by Catholic missionaries.

lana

1. frog

   Synonym: poloka

• IPA^(key): /ˈlana/

lana

1. woolen / woollen

   Synonym: lanala

• lano

From Latin lāna.

• IPA^(key): /ˈla.na/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ana
• Hyphenation: là‧na

lana f (plural lane)

1. wool

• lanoso

• lana in Collins Italian-English Dictionary
• lana in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
• lana in Aldo Gabrielli, Grandi Dizionario Italiano (Hoepli)
• lana in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa
• làna in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
• lana in sapere.it – De Agostini Editore
• lana in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Inherited from Proto-Italic *wlānā, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂wĺ̥h₁neh₂ (“wool”).^[1]

Cognate with Ancient Greek λῆνος (lênos, “wool”), English wool, and Sanskrit ऊर्णा (ūrṇā, “wool”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɫaː.na]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈlaː.na]

lāna f (genitive lānae); first declension

1. wool

   Synonym: vellus

   • 8 CE, Ovidius, Fasti 4.773–774:

     lānaque prōveniat nūllās laesūra puellās,
     mollis et ad tenerās quamlibet apta manūs.

     And may wool be produced that will not harm any girls,
     soft and suited to hands however delicate.

   • c. 347 CE – 420 CE, Hieronymus, Vulgate Proverbs.31.13:

     deleth quaesīvit lānam et līnum et operāta est cōnsiliō manuum suārum

     • Translation by Douay-Rheims trans., Challoner rev.; 1752 CE

       She hath sought wool and flax, and hath wrought by the counsel of her hands.

2. (transferred) spinning wool
   • 166 BCE, Publius Terentius Afer, Andria 74–75:

     Prīmō haec pudīcē vītam parce ac dūriter / agēbat, lānā ac tēlā vīctum quaeritāns.

     At first, she led a chaste life, frugal and harsh, and earned her living by spinning wool and weaving.

First-declension noun.

• vellō (“to pluck out”)
• vellus (“wool”)

• “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, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “lana”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *laña.

lana

1. oil

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *laña.

lana

1. oil (cooking)

• IPA^(key): [ˈlana]

lana

1. inflection of lan:
   1. genitive singular
   2. nominative/accusative dual

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *laña.

lana

1. oil

• Howard P. McKaughan, Batua A. Macaraya (1967), A Maranao Dictionary‎^[4] (overall work in Maranao and English), University of Hawaii Press

lana n

1. definite plural of lan

lana (present tense lanar, past tense lana, past participle lana, passive infinitive lanast, present participle lanande, imperative lana/lan)

1. alternative form of lane

• Alan, Alna, anal, anla, alna, lana

• IPA^(key): /ˈla.na/
• Rhymes: -ana
• Syllabification: la‧na

lana

1. feminine nominative/vocative singular of lany

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *laña. Cognate with Mongondow lana, Tagalog lana (“sesame oil”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈla.na/, [ˈɭa.na]^[1]

lana

1. oil

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

From Latin lāna.

lana f

1. (Vallader) wool

lana (Cyrillic spelling лана)

1. genitive singular of lan

Inherited from Old Spanish lana, from Latin lāna.

Cognate with Catalan llana, Galician la, French laine, Occitan lana, Portuguese lã, Romanian lână, and Italian lana.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlana/ [ˈla.na]

• Audio (Colombia):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ana
• Syllabification: la‧na

lana f (plural lanas)

1. wool

   Sin variación en los precios de las lanas de merina. ― No variation in the prices of merino wool.

2. (colloquial) cash, money, dough

   Synonyms: dinero, plata, pasta

3. (Costa Rica) moss

   Synonym: musgo

• “lana”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

• LAN:a

From LAN (“LAN party”) +‎ -a.

lana (present lanar, preterite lanade, supine lanat, imperative lana)

1. to participate in a LAN party

   De lanar ― They're having a LAN party

• “lana”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈlana/ [ˈlaː.n̪ɐ]
• Rhymes: -ana
• Syllabification: la‧na

Borrowed from Spanish lana (“wool”), from Latin lāna.

lana (Baybayin spelling ᜎᜈ)

1. wool
2. wool cloth or garment

lana (Baybayin spelling ᜎᜈ)

1. woolen; made of wool

   Synonym: de-lana

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *laña.

lana (Baybayin spelling ᜎᜈ) (dialectal)

1. sesame oil

• linga

lana (Baybayin spelling ᜎᜈ) (dialectal)

1. species of small banana

• “lana”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, 2018
• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*laña”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

• laan

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *laña.

• (Sinūgan Parianun) IPA^(key): /lana/ [laˈn̪a]
• Rhymes: -a
• Syllabification: la‧na

lana (Sulat Sūg spelling لَنَ)

1. oil (general term)

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