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Dani

proper nounproper nouncommon in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ˈdæni//

A diminutive of the female given name Danielle and of its variant forms.

proper noun

  1. 1

    A diminutive of the female given name Danielle and of its variant forms.

  2. 2

    A diminutive of the male given name Daniel; a rare spelling variant of Danny.

proper noun

  1. 1

    A surname from Gujarati.

Etymology

* As an Italian, Slovak (Dáni), Romanian, and German surname, from diminutives of the given name Daniel. * As an Albanian surname, from Dan, a short form of the Islamic name Ramadan. * As an Indian surname, borrowed from Gujarati દાણી (dāṇī), from Sanskrit दानिन् (dānin, “giving, generous”).

Forms

plural
Danis
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