See also: Ngan, ngàn, ngân, Ngân, and ngắn

Malay edit

Etymology edit

Clipping of dengan.

Pronunciation edit

Preposition edit

ngan (Jawi spelling ڠن)

  1. (colloquial) Alternative form of dengan.
    Kau gi ngan siapa?
    Who are you going with?

Ngambay edit

Pronunciation edit

  • (file)

Noun edit

ngan

  1. (anatomy) tooth

Tausug edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ŋajan.

Noun edit

ngān

  1. name

Vietnamese edit

Etymology edit

Non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese (wild goose, SV: nhạn). Doublet of nhạn.

Likely meant "wild goose" initially.

Sense "muscovy duck" (from the Americas) is attested in Phạm Đình Hổ's 1827 dictionary Nhật dụng thường đàm (日用常談 "Common Words Used Daily") , wherein ngan was glossed as 赤靣鴨 (SV: xích diện áp) "red-faced duck" [1].

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

(classifier con) ngan (, , , 𪃛, 𪇩)

  1. Muscovy duck

Synonyms edit

Waray-Waray edit

Pronunciation edit

Conjunction edit

ngán

  1. and
    Synonym: ug

Zou edit

Noun edit

ngan

  1. request

References edit