lan

See also: Appendix:Variations of "lan"

Balinese

Romanization

lan

1. Romanization of ᬮᬦ᭄

Basque

Pronunciation

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• IPA^(key): /lan/ [lãn]
• Rhymes: -an
• Hyphenation: lan

Noun

lan inan

1. work, task
2. labour
3. annoyance, trouble

Declension

Declension of lan (inanimate, ending in consonant)

	indefinite	singular	plural
absolutive	lan	lana	lanak
ergative	lanek	lanak	lanek
dative	lani	lanari	lanei
genitive	lanen	lanaren	lanen
comitative	lanekin	lanarekin	lanekin
causative	lanengatik	lanarengatik	lanengatik
benefactive	lanentzat	lanarentzat	lanentzat
instrumental	lanez	lanaz	lanez
inessive	lanetan	lanean	lanetan
locative	lanetako	laneko	lanetako
allative	lanetara	lanera	lanetara
terminative	lanetaraino	laneraino	lanetaraino
directive	lanetarantz	lanerantz	lanetarantz
destinative	lanetarako	lanerako	lanetarako
ablative	lanetatik	lanetik	lanetatik
partitive	lanik	—	—
prolative	lantzat	—	—

Derived terms

• lan egin 'work' (v.)
• lantegi 'workplace'

Further reading

• "lan" in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy], euskaltzaindia.eus
• “lan” in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], euskaltzaindia.eus

Fon

Etymology

Cognates include Gun làn, Saxwe Gbe olàn, Adja elan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lã̀/

Noun

làn (plural làn lɛ́)

1. meat

Derived terms

• lànmɛ̀ (“body”)

 

Gun

Làn lẹ́

Alternative forms

• òlàn

Etymology

Cognates include Fon làn, Saxwe Gbe olàn, Adja elan, Ewe lã.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lã̀/

Noun

làn (plural làn lɛ́ or làn lẹ́)

1. meat

Derived terms

• lànmɛ̀ (“body”)
• lànmẹ̀ (“body”)

 

Haitian Creole

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lã/

Article

lan

1. the (definite article)

Usage notes

Use this word only after a word that ends with a nasal vowel and an oral (non-nasal) consonant, in that order, and when it modifies a singular noun.

See also

• a
• an
• la
• nan
• yo
• yon

Javanese

Romanization

lan

1. Romanization of ꦭꦤ꧀

Lower Sorbian

lan

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *lьnъ, from Proto-Indo-European *lino-; cognate with Upper Sorbian len, Polish len, Czech len, Russian лён (ljon), Old Church Slavonic льнѣнъ (lĭněnŭ).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lan/

Noun

lan m inan (diminutive lank)

1. flax (Linum usitatissimum)

Declension

Declension of lan

	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	lan	lana	lany
Genitive	lana	lanowu	lanow
Dative	lanoju	lanoma	lanam
Accusative	lan	lana	lany
Instrumental	lanom	lanoma	lanami
Locative	lanje	lanoma	lanach

Further reading

• Muka, Arnošt (1921, 1928) “lan”, in Słownik dolnoserbskeje rěcy a jeje narěcow (in German), St. Petersburg, Prague: ОРЯС РАН, ČAVU; Reprinted Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag, 2008
• Starosta, Manfred (1999) “lan”, in Dolnoserbsko-nimski słownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch (in German), Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag

Mandarin

Romanization

lan

1. Nonstandard spelling of lán.
2. Nonstandard spelling of lǎn.
3. Nonstandard spelling of làn.

Usage notes

• Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.

Middle Irish

Adjective

lan

1. Alternative spelling of lán

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From English LAN, acronym of local area network.

Noun

lan n (definite singular lanet, indefinite plural lan, definite plural lana)

1. (networking) a LAN
2. (computing) a LAN party

Derived terms

• lana, lane (verb)

References

• Cf. “lan” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Anagrams

• nal

Old Javanese

Etymology

Probably from earlier len, lyan (“other, different”), inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *lian (“to change appearance”).

Conjunction

lan

1. and

Descendants

• > Javanese: ꦭꦤ꧀ (lan) (inherited)
• → Balinese: ᬮᬦ᭄ (lan)

Further reading

• "lan" in P.J. Zoetmulder with the collaboration of S.O. Robson, Old Javanese-English Dictionary. 's-Gravenhage: M. Nijhoff, 1982.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic льнъ (lĭnŭ), from Proto-Slavic *lьnъ. Compare Ukrainian лан (lan).

Noun

lan n (plural lanuri)

1. field (arable land)

   Synonym: ogor

Declension

Declension of lan

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) lan	lanul	(niște) lanuri	lanurile
genitive/dative	(unui) lan	lanului	(unor) lanuri	lanurilor
vocative	lanule		lanurilor

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *lьnъ.

Noun

lȁn m (Cyrillic spelling ла̏н)

1. flax

Declension

Declension of lan

	singular	plural
nominative	lan	lanovi
genitive	lana	lanova
dative	lanu	lanovima
accusative	lan	lanove
vocative	lanu	lanovi
locative	lanu	lanovima
instrumental	lanom	lanovima

Derived terms

• lànen

Tetum

Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese lã, from Old Galician-Portuguese lãa (“wool”), from Latin lāna (“wool”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂wĺ̥h₁neh₂ (“wool”).

Noun

lan

1. wool

Turkish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɫɑn/, [ˈɫ̟ɑn̟]

Interjection

lan

1. Alternative form of ulan

Descendants

• → Swedish: len

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [laːn˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [laːŋ˧˧]
• (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [laːŋ˧˧]

Etymology 1

Compare tràn (“to overflow”).

Verb

lan

1. to spread; to run

Derived terms

Derived terms

• lan man
• lan truyền
• tràn lan

 

Etymology 2

Sino-Vietnamese word from 蘭.

Noun

(classifier cây, bông, hoa) lan

1. orchid

See also

Derived terms

• phong lan

 

Wab

Noun

lan

1. water

Further reading

• John Carter, Katie Carter, John Grummitt, Bonnie MacKenzie, Janell Masters, A Sociolinguistic Survey of the Mur Village Vernaculars (2012)

Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lan/
• Rhymes: -an

Etymology 1

The sense of "up, upwards" comes from an abbreviation of the phrase i'r lan "to the shore, ashore; upwards".

Preposition

lan

1. (South Wales) up

   Synonym: i fyny

   Antonym: i lawr

   Sa i'n mynd lan yr Wyddfa heb esgidiau addas.

   I'm not going up Snowdon without appropriate footwear.

Adverb

lan

1. (South Wales) up, upwards

   Synonym: i fyny

   Antonym: i lawr

   Sa i'n mynd lan gyda ti yn y fflipfflops yna.

   I'm not going up with you in those flipflops.

Noun

lan

1. Soft mutation of glan (“shore, bank”).

Derived terms

• lan a lawr (“up and down”)
• lan lofft (“upstairs”)
• lanlwytho (“to upload”)

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
glan	lan	nglan	unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Etymology 2

Noun

lan

1. Soft mutation of llan (“church”).

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
llan	lan	unchanged	unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

West Coast Bajau

Etymology

From Proto-Sama-Bajaw *lalan, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *zalan, from Proto-Austronesian *zalan.

Noun

lan

1. path
2. trail

Yámana

Noun

lan

1. tongue

Zhuang

Etymology

From Proto-Tai *ʰlaːnᴬ (“nephew; niece; grandchild”). Cognate with Thai หลาน (lǎan), Northern Thai ᩉᩖᩣ᩠ᨶ, Khün ᩉᩖᩣ᩠ᨶ, Lao ຫຼານ (lān), Lü ᦜᦱᧃ (l̇aan), Tai Dam ꪨꪱꪙ, Shan လၢၼ် (lǎan), Tai Nüa ᥘᥣᥢᥴ (láan), Ahom 𑜎𑜃𑜫 (lan), Saek หล่าน.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Zhuang) IPA^(key): /laːn˨˦/
• Tone numbers: lan¹
• Hyphenation: lan

Noun

lan (classifier boux, Sawndip forms 𭓀 or 𰌮 or 𭓎 or 𬞕, 1957–1982 spelling lan)

1. grandchild; grandson

Derived terms

• bawxlan
• ciuhlan
• dahlan
• daihlan
• daeglan
• goyezlan
• goyelan
• goyilan
• landaeuz
• langwiz
• lanbawx
• lanbaex
• lancaiz
• lanlaej
• lanluz
• lanlux
• lanmbauq
• lanmbwk
• lannyingz
• lanranzrog
• lansai
• lansau
• lanvaiqseng
• lanvaihseng
• lwglan