Luana

See also: luana

English edit

Etymology edit

American 18th/19th century coinage, a fanciful spelling of Louanna, from Lou + Anna.

Proper noun edit

Luana

A female given name originating as a coinage.
- 1845 Lowell Offering, Misses Curtis and Farley, Vol.4, page 250 ("Nepomiwassit" by "J.L.B"):
  Young Eagle, with a proud heart, led Luana forth to the mossy bank of the river,
- 1912, The Bookman, volume 35, Dodd, Mead and Company, page 168:
  The Bird of Paradise, by Mr Richard Walton Tully, is more pictorial than decorative. […] One of these characters, an American physician named Paul Wilson, sinks from civilisation to savagery because he marries a native princess named Luana […]
- 2011, R. Serge Denisoff, William D. Romanowski, Risky Business: Rock in Film:
  Luana Patten, a former Disney child star, was cast as the level-headed romantic interest.

Anagrams edit

Naula, lauan

Hawaiian edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from English Luana. Made known in Hawaii by the play (1912) and film (1932) Bird of Paradise and later explained as Hawaiian luana (“leisure”).

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): /luˈa.na/, [luˈwɐ.nə]

Proper noun edit

Luana

a female given name from English

References edit

Mary Kawena Pukui - Samuel H. Elbert, Hawaiian Dictionary, University of Hawaii Press 1986
Hawaii State Archives: Marriage records The name Luana does not appear in 19th century marriage records.

Italian edit

Proper noun edit

Luana f

a female given name

Portuguese edit

Pronunciation edit

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /luˈɐ̃.nɐ/ [lʊˈɐ̃.nɐ], (faster pronunciation) /ˈlwɐ̃.nɐ/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /luˈɐ.na/ [lʊˈɐ.na], (faster pronunciation) /ˈlwɐ.na/

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈlwɐ.nɐ/
- (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈlwa.nɐ/

Proper noun edit

Luana f

a female given name