Lana

From English Lanna or French lanna.

The letter "n" was trimmed from "Lanna", in accordance with the four-letter format in ISO 15924.

Lana

1. (international standards) ISO 15924 script code for Tai Tham (Lanna).

Short form of Alana, or from Russian Ла́на (Lána), diminutive of several names including Светла́на (Svetlána).

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɑːnə/

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Lana

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

     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.

   • 2013, Matt Haig, The Humans, Canongate, →ISBN, page 832:

     I discovered that her full name was Margaret Lowell. I wasn't an expert on Earth names, but I still knew this was wildly inappropriate. She should have been called Lana Bellcurve or Ashley Brainsex or something.

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

Lana n (proper noun, genitive Lanas or (optionally with an article) Lana)

1. a municipality of South Tyrol

Lana f (proper noun, genitive singular Lönu)

1. a female given name

• IPA^(key): /láːna/

Lȃna f

1. a female given name

• “Lana”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene), 2014–2025