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A lanai or lānai is a type of roofed, open-sided veranda, patio, or porch originating in Hawaii. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Many homes, apartment buildings, hotels and restaurants in Hawaii are built with one or more lānais.
The Hotel Lanai in Lanai City was built in 1923 by James Dole of the Hawaiian Pineapple Company as a lodge to house the executives overseeing the island's pineapple production. It was the island's only hotel until 1990. Wrecked YOGN-42 in Shipwreck Beach. Lanai is also home to three golf courses, one at each Four Seasons resort and a third ...
Lānaʻi is an island and has some other meanings, [4] while lānai is a covered porch around a house, [5] and lanai means "stiff-backed". [ 6 ] Use of the kahakō and ʻokina , as used in current standard Hawaiian orthography, is preferred in Hawaiian language words, names and usage in the body of articles dealing with Hawaii on the English ...
The simplest definition of a lanai sounds a lot like a porch: A lanai is a structure with a roofed entrance and more than one of the “walls” open to the elements. It’s more of a combination ...
The title should tell the reader what the correct spelling of the word is. Not one English-language source has been presented to support the proposed spelling. "Lanai" is just another word for porch, so there is no reason for this to be a separate article. Kauffner 09:11, 14 November 2012 (UTC)
Lanai may also refer to: Lanai (architecture), a type of patio; Lanai City, Hawaii "LANAI", a 1983 album by Yu Hayami This page was last edited on ...
A rain porch is a type of porch with the roof and columns extended past the deck and reaching the ground. The roof may extend several feet past the porch creating a covered patio. A rain porch, also referred to as a Carolina porch, is usually found in the Southeastern United States. [6]
Veranda, as used in the United Kingdom and France, was brought by the British from India (Hindi: बरामदा, Urdu: برآمدہ).While the exact origin of the word is unknown, scholars suggest that the word may have originated in India or may have been adopted from the Portuguese [citation needed] and spread further to the British and French colonists. [6]