lanay verb English. Melts as it burns, as wax. Example sentence: Subanen. Ki sulu' ta kiin kendila', minamal lumanay. English. That candle we're using for light is melting fast. lumanay noun English. Place of the dead, conceived of as where souls melt and reform. Example sentence: Subanen. Ki getaw daw sa' matay, dayun su gimuuden, mekauli' ditug lumanay, melaaten, pu' sa' daw gebii, megela' metunag. English. They say that when a person dies his soul goes to the place of the dead, which is a bad place, for it is said that at night they all melt. Synonym. tunaw Generic. uli'