From Sanskrit *आवुनाति (āvunāti). Cognate to Sinhalese අමුණනවා (amuṇanawā)
- IPA(key): /a.mu.n̪a.n̪iː/, [ä.mu.n̪ä.n̪iː]
- Hyphenation: އަ‧މު‧ނަ‧ނީ
އަމުނަނީ • (amunanī)
- to string
- to thread
- Hassan Ahmed Maniku (2000) “އަމުނަނީ”, in A Concise Etymological Vocabulary of Dhivehi Language, Colombo: The Royal Asiatic Society of Sri Lanka, page 13