apan

See also: APAn and apán

English

Alternative forms

• APAn

Etymology

APA (“amateur press association”) +‎ -n (“of or pertaining to”)

Noun

apan (plural apans)

1. (fandom slang) A member of an amateur press association.
   • 1990 August, Guy Lillian, “'Tis the Season”, in Mimosa‎^[1], number 8, page 4:

     The greatest apan of all time lives on a quiet old street rising above Hagerstown, Maryland.

   • 1998 October 3, Brown, Rich [Dr Gafia], “Fan Terms (1)”, in rec.arts.sf.fandom‎^[2] (Usenet), retrieved 2018-06-13, message-ID <19981003020622.14181.00000964@ng52.aol.com>:

     Most of the participants in the mundane apas are hobby printers—-and the disdain with which our fandom once viewed Xeroxing of fanzines is but a pale reflection of the way mundane apans have looked upon the mimeo and the ditto as a means of publishing "papers" (as they call their amateur publications).

   • 2006 May, Arnie Katz, “The Thin Veneer”, in confuSon‎^[3], volume 1, number 4:

     I immediately began a cutback. I remained an enthusiastic apan, but by the time I gafiated around 1976, I was in only one, FAPA.

Synonyms

• apahack

Hyponyms

• biapan, multiapan, omniapan

Related terms

• apazine

Anagrams

• paan, Napa, NAPA, napa, Pana

Cebuano

Etymology

Short for apanapan.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: a‧pan

Noun

apan

1. a grasshopper

   Synonyms: apan, apanapan

Related terms

• dulon

Finnish

Verb

apan

1. first-person singular present indicative of appaa

Anagrams

• napa, paan

Hiligaynon

Noun

apán

1. an adult locust

Malay

Noun

apan

1. (dialectal, Sambas) pan

Pipil

Etymology

From at (“water”) +‎ -pan (“upper surface; place/area; time”, locative).

Pronunciation

• (standard) IPA^(key): /ˈapaŋ/

Noun

apan (plural ajapan)

1. river

   Yahquet maltiat tic ne apan ne pipilmet

   The children went to bathe in the river

Related terms

Related terms

• apanti (“irrigated field”)
• apanmil (“irrigation corn”)

Quechua

Verb

apan

1. third-person singular present indicative of apay

Swedish

Noun

apan

1. definite singular of apa

Tagakaulu Kalagan

Noun

apan

1. grasshopper

Waray-Waray

Noun

apán

1. grasshopper

Western Huasteca Nahuatl

Noun

apan

1. river

Yola

Alternative forms

• apaa, apa, upan, upa, pa

Etymology

From Middle English apan, upan, from Old English upon, uppon, uppan (“on, upon, up to, against, after, in addition to”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /əˈpɔːn/, /əˈpɔː/, /ʊˈpɔːn/, /ʊˈpɔː/, /pɔː/

Preposition

apan

1. upon
   • 1867, “THE WEDDEEN O BALLYMORE”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 2, page 94:

     Wee aar lhaung vlealès an pikkès, to waaite apan a breede.

     With their long flails and picks, to wait upon the bride.

   • 1867, “THE WEDDEEN O BALLYMORE”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 3, page 94:

     Aar was a muskawn o buthther ee-laaide apan hoat shruaanès,

     There was a great heap of butter laid upon hot scraps,

   • 1867, “VERSES IN ANSWER TO THE WEDDEEN O BALLYMORE”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 98:

     [Wee] vaate apan vaate a met-borde was ee-halt.

     [With vat upon vat a meat-borde was held.]

   • 1867, “VERSES IN ANSWER TO THE WEDDEEN O BALLYMORE”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 1, page 100:

     Amang wefty jhemes, 'cha jeist ee-rid apan.

     Among cobwebby scraps, I have just alighted on.

   • 1867, “ABOUT AN OLD SOW GOING TO BE KILLED”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 2, page 106:

     Ich aam a vat hog it's drue. Aar is ken apan aam.

     I am a fat hog, 'tis true. There is ken upon them.

References

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 23