fáni

From Old Norse fáni, from Proto-Germanic *fanô. Compare the Latin pannus (“a cloth; a rag; a garment”), German Fahne (“the flag of a nation, organisation, etc; a banner”) from Middle High German vano / van, from Old High German fano (“a flag”), from the Germanic root *fanō (cloth, flag), from Proto-Indo-European *pān (fabric) and the English vane from the Old English fana (“a flag”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈfauːnɪ/

  Rhymes: -auːnɪ

fáni m (genitive singular fána, nominative plural fánar)

1. a flag

   Íslenski fáninn.

   Flag of Iceland.

• (flag): flagg

• að sigla undir fána aðildarríkis (flying the flag of a member state)
• fánablað (culmiferous terminal leaf)
• fánabotn (vexillum)
• fánaríki (flag State)
• fánaríkismál (flag State related issue)
• fánayfirvald (flag administration)
• hentifáni (flag of convenience)
• skip sem siglir undir fána aðildarríkis (ship flying the flag of a Member State)
• skip sem siglir undir fána ríkis (ship flying the flag of a State)
• skoðunarmaður fánaríkis (flag state inspector)
• stjórnvald fánaríkis (flag State administration, administration of the flag State)
• undirnefnd um framkvæmd á gerningum Alþjóðasiglingamálastofnunarinnar í fánaríkjum (Subcommittee on Flag State Implementation (FSI) of the IMO)
• þjóðfáni

• blakta (to flutter)
• húnn (a flagpole's knob)
• stöng, flaggstöng (flagpole)