Inari

From Japanese 稲荷 (Inari).

Inari

1. (Japanese mythology, Shinto) The god of harvests, fertility, rice, agriculture, foxes, industry, and worldly success.

Inari

1. A lake in Lapland, Finland.
2. A municipality of Lapland, Finland, and its central village.
3. A Saami language: the Inari Sami.
4. (astronomy) 1532 Inari, a main belt asteroid.

• Ethnologue entry for Inari, smn ⁠

• INRIA, Irani, Riina, irian

Probably from Inari Sami Aanaar, perhaps ultimately from a substrate.

• IPA^(key): /ˈinɑri/, [ˈinɑ̝ri]
• Rhymes: -inɑri
• Syllabification^(key): I‧na‧ri

Inari

1. (uncountable) Inari (lake)
2. (uncountable) Inari (municipality and its central village)
3. (uncountable) Inari (asteroid)
4. a female given name transferred from the place name
   • 1917, Joel Lehtonen, Kerran kesällä, Otava, published 1972, page 75:

     "Paatilla makaamaan", matki surkeasti Bongman. "Maissi-rouva! Miksi ei Riissi-rouva, miksi ei suomalaisia nimiä. Ja Svea Ruusa. Miksi ei Saima, Inari, Koli..."
     "Kuinka te uskallatte!" huudahti rouva Könölin.

     "Lie down on the boat", Bongman pitifully repeated. "Mrs Maissi! Why not Mrs Riissi, why not Finnish names. And Svea Ruusa. Why not Saima, Inari, Koli..."
     "How dare you!", Mrs Könölin shouted.

   • 2014, Leena Kirstinä, Kirsi Kunnas―sateessa ja tuulessa, WSOY, →ISBN, pages 29–30:

     Kirsin ja Alilan pikkusisko Inari syntyi 24. syyskuuta 1931. Inari oli tuolloin hyvin uudenaikainen nimi, ja Kirsi ja Alila vitsailivatkin myöhemmin keskenään, että äiti oli keksinyt sen poistamalla miehensä nimestä E-kirjaimen.

     Kirsi's and Alila's younger sister Inari was born on September 24, 1931. Inari was a really new naem back then, and Kirsi and Alila would go on to joke between themselves that their mother had invented the name by taking out the initial E from her husband's name.

5. (dated, rare) a male given name transferred from the place name

The internal locative cases (inessive, illative and elative) are used with this place name when referring to a location; for example, "in Inari" is Inarissa.

• Inari is the 468^th most common female given name in Finland, belonging to 798 female individuals (and as a middle name to 2,160 more, making it more common as a middle name), and also belongs as a middle name to 22 male individuals, according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.

• Irina, Riina

Inari f

1. Inari (a municipality and village in northern Finland)

Inari m

1. Inari (a lake in northern Finland)