vani

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

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈba.ni]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencian) [ˈva.ni]

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

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

• Rhymes: -aːnɪ

vani m (genitive singular vana, nominative plural vanar)

1. a habit, a custom

   Synonym: venja

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

vani

1. masculine plural of vano

vani m

1. plural of vano

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

• Vian, navi

vani

1. four

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

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈu̯aː.niː/, [ˈu̯äːniː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈva.ni/, [ˈväːni]

vānī

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

• vȃnka (regional)

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

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

vàni (Cyrillic spelling ва̀ни)

1. outside, outdoors, out [+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.

• unutra

• napolje

• “vani” in Hrvatski jezični portal