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Inari

name · noun · 7 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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name

Meaning 1

The god of harvests, fertility, rice, agriculture, foxes, industry, and worldly success.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: Japanese

Topics: Shinto, human-sciences, lifestyle, mysticism, mythology, philosophy, religion, sciences

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Meaning 2

A lake in Lapland, Finland.

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Meaning 3

A municipality of Lapland, Finland.

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Meaning 4

A village in the municipality of Inari, Lapland, Finland.

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Meaning 5

A Saami language: the Inari Sami.

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Meaning 6

1532 Inari, a main belt asteroid.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: astronomy, natural-sciences

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noun

Meaning 7

A type of sushi with rice wrapped in a pouch of fried tofu (aburaage).

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: uncountable

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History

Etymology

From Japanese 稲荷 (Inari).

Borrowed from Japanese 稲荷.

Across languages

Translations

41 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Belarusian: Інары (Inary) — lake
  • Bulgarian: Инари — lake
  • Danish: Enaresøen — lake
  • Danish: Enare — lake
  • Finnish: Inarijärvi — lake
  • Finnish: Inari — lake
  • Japanese: イナリ湖 (Inari-ko) — lake
  • Latvian: Inari — lake
  • Lithuanian: Inaris — lake
  • Marathi: इनारी (inārī) — lake
  • Norwegian: Enaresjøen — lake
  • Polish: Inari — lake
  • Portuguese: Inari — lake
  • Russian: И́нари (Ínari) — lake
  • Inari-Sami: Aanaarjävri — lake
  • Northern Sami: Anárjávri — lake
  • Skolt-Sami: Aanarjäuˊrr — lake
  • Swedish: Enare träsk — lake
  • Turkmen: İnari gölü — lake
  • Finnish: Inari — municipality and village
  • Marathi: इनारी (inārī) — municipality and village
  • Norwegian: Enare — municipality and village
  • Polish: Inari — municipality and village
  • Portuguese: Inari — municipality and village
  • Inari-Sami: Aanaar — municipality and village
  • Northern Sami: Anár — municipality and village
  • Skolt-Sami: Aanar — municipality and village
  • Swedish: Enare — municipality and village
  • Finnish: inarinsaame — language
  • Marathi: इनारी सामी (inārī sāmī) — language
  • Norwegian: enaresamisk — language
  • Norwegian Bokmål: enaresamisk — language
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: enaresamisk — language
  • Polish: język inari — language
  • Inari-Sami: anarâškielâ — language
  • Northern Sami: anárašgiella — language
  • Swedish: enaresamiska — language
  • Finnish: Inari — asteroid
  • Marathi: इनारी (inārī) — asteroid
  • Polish: Inari — asteroid
  • Swedish: Inari — asteroid