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Lanai

la·nai

UK/ləˈnaɪ/ US/lɑːˈnaɪ/ uncommon

noun

1.

an island of central Hawaii; a pineapple-growing area

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Origin

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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