Luana

See also: luana

English

Etymology

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

Proper noun

Luana

1. 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

• Naula, lauan

Hawaiian

Etymology

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

• IPA^(key): /luˈa.na/, [luˈwɐ.nə]

Proper noun

Luana

1. a female given name from English

References

• 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

Proper noun

Luana f

1. a female given name

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /luˈɐ̃.nɐ/ [lʊˈɐ̃.nɐ], (faster pronunciation) /ˈlwɐ̃.nɐ/

• (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/

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

Proper noun

Luana f

1. a female given name