SHANI.  f.  Swahili name, derived from the vocabulary word shani, meaning "wonder." (English-Swahili Dictionary, Madan, 1902).

SHANI (שָׁנִי).  Unisex.  Hebrew name meaning "crimson." (Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature, McClintock, 1894)

SHANI (शनि).  m.  Another spelling of Hindu Śani (q.v.), meaning "slow (as the planet Saturn)."  In mythology, this is the name of a son of Surya.

... He came into existence, it is said, in a perfect human form.  His mother was so charmed with his appearance at his birth that she invited all the gods to come to get a peep of him as he lay on his infantile couch.  They all responded to her commands; but one of them, Shani, now the unlucky planet Saturn, from love to the child and mother, was rather slow to look at the darling.  For his hesitation he was rebuked by Parvati, and, rather than incur her permanent displeasure, he took a hasty glance at the mother's love.  The consequences were fearful enough: the head of the child instantaneously withered away, while the mother experienced the agony of despair in its most acute form.  But Shani was not without his divine resources on this melancholy occasion.  An elephant was passing by, and of this huge pachyderm he chopped off the head and placed it on the trunk of the child, where it still remains, the symbol of marvellous precocity and wisdom... (Lecture on the Religious Excavations of Western India, Buddhist, Brahmanical, and Jaina, &c., Wilson, 1875).