can
English edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Middle English can, first and third person singular of connen, cunnen (“to be able, know how”), from Old English can(n), first and third person singular of cunnan (“to know how”), from Proto-West Germanic *kunnan, from Proto-Germanic *kunnaną, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵneh₃- (whence also know). Doublet of con. See also: canny, cunning.
Alternative forms edit
Pronunciation edit
- (stressed)
- enPR: kăn
- (Received Pronunciation, Ireland) IPA(key): /ˈkæn/, [ˈkʰan], [ˈkʰæn]
- (General American, Canada) IPA(key): /ˈkæn/, [ˈkʰæn], [ˈkʰɛən ~ ˈkʰeən] (see /æ/ raising)
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /ˈkæn/, [ˈkʰæn], [ˈkʰɛːn] (see /æ/ raising)
- (New Zealand) IPA(key): /ˈkɛn/, [ˈkʰɛˑn]
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -æn
- (unstressed)
Pronunciation notes edit
- Some US dialects that glottalize the final /t/ in can’t ([kæn(ʔ)]), in order to differentiate can’t from can, pronounce can as /kɛn/ even when stressed.
Verb edit
can (third-person singular simple present can, present participle (by suppletion) able, simple past could, past participle (obsolete except in adjectival use) couth)
- (auxiliary verb, defective) To know how to; to be able to.
- Synonym: be able to
- Antonyms: cannot, can't
- She can speak English, French, and German.
- I can play football.
- Can you remember your fifth birthday?
- 1449, Reginald Pecock, Represser of over-much weeting [blaming] of the Clergie:
- prouyng which eny clerk can or woel or mai make bi eny maner euydence of resoun or of Scripture, and namelich of resoun into the contrarie.
- 2013 July–August, Lee S. Langston, “The Adaptable Gas Turbine”, in American Scientist:
- Turbines have been around for a long time—windmills and water wheels are early examples. The name comes from the Latin turbo, meaning vortex, and thus the defining property of a turbine is that a fluid or gas turns the blades of a rotor, which is attached to a shaft that can perform useful work.
- 1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:
- If thou canst awake by four o' the clock, / I prithee call me. Sleep hath seized me wholly.
- (modal auxiliary verb, defective, informal) May; to be permitted or enabled to.
- Synonym: may
- You can go outside and play when you're finished with your homework.
- Can I use your pen?
- (modal auxiliary verb, defective) To have the potential to; be possible.
- Can it be Friday already?
- Teenagers can really try their parents' patience.
- Animals can experience emotions.
- 1922, Ben Travers, chapter 5, in A Cuckoo in the Nest:
- The most rapid and most seductive transition in all human nature is that which attends the palliation of a ravenous appetite. […] Can those harmless but refined fellow-diners be the selfish cads whose gluttony and personal appearance so raised your contemptuous wrath on your arrival?
- 2009, Annette Sym, Simply Too Good to be True, Greenleaf Book Group, →ISBN, page 4:
- Teenagers can be so cruel, and nicknames cut deep.
- (auxiliary verb, defective) Used with verbs of perception.
- Can you hear that?
- I can feel the baby moving inside me.
- (obsolete, transitive) To know.
- ca.1360-1387, William Langland, Piers Plowman
- I can rimes of Robin Hood.
- ca.1360-1387, William Langland, Piers Plowman
- I can no Latin, quod she.
- 1593, [William Shakespeare], Venus and Adonis, London: […] Richard Field, […], →OCLC; Shakespeare’s Venus & Adonis: […], 4th edition, London: J[oseph] M[alaby] Dent and Co. […], 1896, →OCLC:
- Let the priest in surplice white, / That defunctive music can.
- ca.1360-1387, William Langland, Piers Plowman
- (India, nonstandard, proscribed) To be (followed by a word like able, possible, allowed).
- 2011 November 29, Tai-hoon Kim, Hojjat Adeli, Carlos Ramos, Byeong-Ho Kang, Signal Processing, Image Processing and Pattern Recognition: International Conferences, SIP 2011, Held as Part of the Future Generation Information Technology Conference, FGIT 2011, in Conjunction with GDC 2011, Jeju Island, Korea, December 8-10, 2011. Proceedings, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 114:
- Importance of Identifying Leaf: Identify Plants: If we can able to identify leaf, we can easily able to identify plants.
- 2018 February 15, Asha Bajpai, Child Rights in India: Law, Policy, and Practice, Oxford University Press, →ISBN:
- Children in need of care and protection can allowed to be placed in foster care based on the orders of the CWC. The selection of the foster family is based on the family's ability, intent, capacity, and prior experience of taking care […]
- 2020 May 22, Pardeep Kumar, Vasaki Ponnusamy, Vishal Jain, Industrial Internet of Things and Cyber-Physical Systems: Transforming the Conventional to Digital: Transforming the Conventional to Digital, IGI Global, →ISBN, page 226:
- It can possible to design the ruleset refreshes that allow them to subsequently run at precise interludes and these keep informed.
Usage notes edit
- For missing forms, substitute inflected forms of be able to, as:
- I might be able to go.
- I have been able to go, since I was seven.
- I had been able to go before.
- I will be able to go tomorrow.
- The word could also suffices in many tenses. “I would be able to go” is equivalent to “I could go”, and “I was able to go” can be rendered “I could go”. (Unless there is a clear indication otherwise, “could verb” means “was able to verb”, but “could not verb” means “was/were unable to verb”.)
- The present tense negative can not is usually contracted to cannot (more formal) or can’t (less formal).
- The use of can in asking permission sometimes is criticized as being impolite or incorrect by those who favour the more formal alternative “may I...?”.
- Can is sometimes used rhetorically to issue a command, placing the command in the form of a request. For instance, “Can you hand me that pen?” as a polite substitution for “Hand me that pen.”
- Some US dialects that glottalize the final /t/ in can’t (/kæn(ʔ)/), in order to differentiate can’t from can, pronounce can as /kɛn/ even when stressed.
Conjugation edit
infinitive | — | ||
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present tense | past tense | ||
1st-person singular | can | could, coulde† | |
2nd-person singular | can, canst†, canest†, cannest† | could, couldst†, couldest†, could'st† | |
3rd-person singular | can, cannethirish† | could, coulde† | |
plural | can | ||
subjunctive | can | could, coulde† | |
imperative | can† | — | |
participles | canning† | could*, coulde† |
Derived terms edit
Translations edit
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Etymology 2 edit
From Middle English canne, from Old English canne (“glass, container, cup, can”), from Proto-Germanic *kannǭ (“can, tankard, mug, cup”).
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: kăn, IPA(key): /ˈkæn/
- Rhymes: -æn
- (General Australian, Southern England) IPA(key): /ˈkæːn/
- (æ-tensing) IPA(key): [ˈkeən]
Audio (UK) (file)
Noun edit
can (plural cans)
- A more or less cylindrical and often metal container or vessel.
- Synonym: (Australia, Britain, and some Commonwealth nations) tin
- A container used to carry and dispense water for plants (a watering can).
- (archaic) A chamber pot.
- (US, slang) a toilet or lavatory.
- (toilet): Synonyms: see Thesaurus:chamber pot, Thesaurus:toilet
- (place with a toilet): Synonyms: see Thesaurus:bathroom
- Bob's in the can. You can wait a few minutes or just leave it with me.
- 1951, J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, →OCLC, page 35:
- I didn't have anything special to do, so I went down to the can and chewed the rag with him while he was shaving.
- 1977-1980, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure
- If he was going to hide out in the can, he can just stay there & sleep in the tub.
- (US, slang) a toilet or lavatory.
- (US, slang) Buttocks.
- (slang) Jail or prison.
- Bob’s in the can. He won’t be back for a few years.
- 1988, The Traveling Wilburys (lyrics and music), “Tweeter and the Monkey Man”, in The Traveling Wilburys, Vol. 1:
- The undercover cop never liked the Monkey Man / Even back in childhood, he wanted to see him in the can
- (slang, in the plural) Headphones.
- (archaic) A drinking cup.
- 1600, [Michael Drayton, Richard Hathwaye, Anthony Munday, Robert Wilson], The First Part of the True and Honorable Historie, of the Life of Sir John Old-castle, the Good Lord Cobham. […][1], London: […] [V[alentine] S[immes]] for Thomas Pauier, […], →OCLC:
- VVhen the vulgar ſort / Sit on their Ale-bench, vvith their cups and kannes, / Matters of ſtate be not their common talke, / Nor pure religion by their lips prophande.
- c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iii]:
- SIR ANDREW: Nay, my troth, I know not: but I know, to be up late is to be up late. / SIR TOBY: A false conclusion: I hate it as an unfilled can.
- 1842, Alfred Tennyson, “A Vision of Sin”, in Poems. […], volume II, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 218:
- Fill the cup and fill the can: / Have a rouse before the morn: / Every minute dies a man, / Every minute one is born.
- (nautical) A cube-shaped buoy or marker used to denote a port-side lateral mark
- A chimney pot.
- (slang, in the plural) An E-meter used in Scientology auditing.
- (US, slang) An ounce (or sometimes, two ounces) of marijuana.
- 1970, California. Supreme Court, Reports of Cases Determined in the Supreme Court of the State of California:
- […] prosecution for selling and giving away marijuana, the evidence clearly constituted substantial proof that a package purchased by defendant contained marijuana where he requested "four cans" of marijuana to be delivered to himself and […]
- A protective cover for the fuel element in a nuclear reactor.
- (vulgar, slang, Canada, US) The breasts of a woman.
Hyponyms edit
Derived terms edit
- booze can
- can buoy
- can-eater
- can hook
- can house
- can-kicking
- cankin
- can light
- can of corn
- can of worms
- can opener
- carry the can
- cheese in a can
- chimney can
- dunny can
- GI can
- hot water can
- in the can
- kick at the can
- kick-the-can
- kick the can
- kick the can down the road
- know someone from a can of paint
- milk can
- open a can of whoop ass
- open up a can of whoop ass
- rattle can
- sea can
- shitcan
- shower in a can
- spam in a can
- tie a can to it
- tip the can
- tomato can
- water can
Translations edit
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Verb edit
can (third-person singular simple present cans, present participle canning, simple past and past participle canned)
- To seal in a can.
- They canned air to sell as a novelty to tourists.
- To preserve by heating and sealing in a jar or can.
- They spent August canning fruit and vegetables.
- To discard, scrap or terminate (an idea, project, etc.).
- He canned the whole project because he thought it would fail.
- 2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, pages 67–68:
- My next stop is Oxford, which has also grown with the addition of new platforms to accommodate the Chiltern Railways service to London via Bicester - although, short sightedly, the planned electrification from Paddington was canned. Evidence of the volte-face can be seen along the line at places such as Radley, where mast piles are already sunk or lie discarded at the lineside.
- (transitive, slang) To shut up.
- Can your gob.
- (US, euphemistic) To fire or dismiss an employee.
- The boss canned him for speaking out.
- 2022 November 25, B. Cost, “Man wins legal right to be 'boring' at work, gets $3K from company”, in New York Post[2], NYP Holdings, retrieved 2022-11-27:
- As a result of his refusal, the employee was subsequently canned in 2015 on the basis of "professional inadequacy" and failing to embody the "party" atmosphere that the consultancy was trying to cultivate.
- (golf, slang, transitive) To hole the ball.
- 1958, Dick Mayer, How to Think and Swing Like a Golf Champion, page 186:
- I thought I had canned it, but it just missed, and I tapped in the second one for a par.
- (transitive) To cover (the fuel element in a nuclear reactor) with a protective cover.
Conjugation edit
infinitive | (to) can | ||
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present tense | past tense | ||
1st-person singular | can | canned | |
2nd-person singular | |||
3rd-person singular | cans | ||
plural | can | ||
subjunctive | can | canned | |
imperative | can | — | |
participles | canning | canned |
Synonyms edit
- (discard): bin, dump, scrap; see also Thesaurus:junk
- (shut up): can it, stifle; see also Thesaurus:stop talking or Thesaurus:make silent
- (dismiss an employee): axe, let go, sack; see also Thesaurus:lay off
Derived terms edit
Translations edit
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See also edit
References edit
- “can”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
Anagrams edit
Afar edit
Etymology edit
Related to Somali caano, Oromo aannan and Saho xan.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
cán m (plural caanowá f or canooná f)
Declension edit
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subjective | cán | |||||||||||||||||
genitive | cantí | |||||||||||||||||
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References edit
- Loren F. Bliese (1981) A Generative Grammar of Afar[3], Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics and University of Texas at Arlington (doctoral thesis).
- E. M. Parker, R. J. Hayward (1985) “can”, in An Afar-English-French dictionary (with Grammatical Notes in English), University of London, →ISBN
- Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)[4], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)
Aragonese edit
Etymology edit
From Latin canis, canem.
Noun edit
can m (plural cans)
References edit
- Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002) “can”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, →ISBN
Asturian edit
Etymology edit
From Latin canis, canem.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
can m (plural canes)
- dog (animal)
Synonyms edit
Azerbaijani edit
Cyrillic | ҹан | |
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Abjad | جان |
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
can (definite accusative canı, plural canlar)
- soul, spirit
- being, creature, life
- body (in expressions concerning body sensations)
- force, vigour
- life (the state of organisms preceding their death)
- canını almaq ― to kill (literally, “to take the life of”)
Declension edit
Declension of can | ||||||||
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nominative | can |
canlar | ||||||
definite accusative | canı |
canları | ||||||
dative | cana |
canlara | ||||||
locative | canda |
canlarda | ||||||
ablative | candan |
canlardan | ||||||
definite genitive | canın |
canların |
Derived terms edit
Catalan edit
Pronunciation edit
Contraction edit
can
Further reading edit
- “can” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Chinese edit
Etymology 1 edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
can
- (Hong Kong Cantonese, university slang) canteen; restaurant (in a university campus)
Etymology 2 edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
can
Synonyms edit
Classical Nahuatl edit
Alternative forms edit
Pronunciation edit
Pronoun edit
cān
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
Galician edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Old Galician-Portuguese can, from Latin canis, canem. Cognate with Portuguese cão.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
can m (plural cans)
- dog
- Cando o can ladra na rúa, non ladra de balde.
- When the dog barks in the street, it does not bark for nothing
- (historical) 20th century 5, 10 cents of peseta coin
Related terms edit
Etymology 2 edit
From Old Galician-Portuguese quan, from Latin quam. Cognate with Portuguese quão and Spanish cuan.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
can m (plural cans)
Etymology 3 edit
From Old French chan, from Medieval Latin canus, ultimately from Turkic *qan, contraction of *qaɣan.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
can m (plural cans)
References edit
- “can” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
- “can” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
- “can” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “can” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “can” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
Interlingua edit
Noun edit
can (plural canes)
Irish edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Old Irish canaid,[1] from Proto-Celtic *kaneti (“to sing”), from Proto-Indo-European *keh₂n-. Compare Welsh canu, Latin canō, Ancient Greek καναχέω (kanakhéō), Persian خواندن (xândan).
Verb edit
can (present analytic canann, future analytic canfaidh, verbal noun canadh, past participle canta)
- to sing
- 2015 [2014], Will Collins, translated by Proinsias Mac a' Bhaird, edited by Maura McHugh, Amhrán na Mara (fiction; paperback), Kilkenny, County Kilkenny, Howth, Dublin: Cartoon Saloon; Coiscéim, translation of Song of the Sea (in English), →ISBN, page 1:
- Thuas i dteach an tsolais, faoi réaltaí geala, canann Bronach Amhrán na Mara dá mac Ben atá cúig bliana d'aois.
- [original: Up in the lighthouse, under twinkling stars, Bronach sings the Song of the Sea to her five-year-old son, Ben.]
- (Ulster) to speak, talk
Conjugation edit
* indirect relative
† archaic or dialect form
‡‡ dependent form used with particles that trigger eclipsis
Etymology 2 edit
Noun edit
can m (genitive singular cana)
Declension edit
Bare forms (no plural of this noun)
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Forms with the definite article:
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Etymology 3 edit
Noun edit
can m
Adverb edit
can
Derived terms edit
- can duit? (“where are you from?”)
Mutation edit
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Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
can | chan | gcan |
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References edit
- ^ G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “canaid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Further reading edit
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “canaim”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 113
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “can”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
Istriot edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
can m
Italian edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Turkic.
Alternative forms edit
Noun edit
can m (uncountable)
Etymology 2 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Noun edit
can m (apocopated)
Ligurian edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Latin canis, canem (“dog”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
can m (plural chen, diminutive cagnetto or cagnin, feminine cagna)
- dog, male dog
Related terms edit
Lombard edit
Etymology edit
From Latin Latin canis. Cognate with Italian cane.
Noun edit
can
Mandarin edit
Romanization edit
can
- Nonstandard spelling of cān.
- Nonstandard spelling of cán.
- Nonstandard spelling of cǎn.
- Nonstandard spelling of càn.
Usage notes edit
- 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 Dutch edit
Verb edit
can
Middle English edit
Etymology 1 edit
Noun edit
can
- Alternative form of canne
Etymology 2 edit
Verb edit
can
- Alternative form of cunnen
Northern Kurdish edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
can ?
Occitan edit
Etymology edit
From Old Occitan [Term?], from Latin canis, canem.
Pronunciation edit
Audio (file)
Noun edit
Old Galician-Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
From Latin canem (“dog”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱwṓ (“dog”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
can m
- dog
- 13th century, Cancioneiro da Biblioteca Nacional, Alfonso X of Castile, B 476: Non quer'eu donzela fea (facsimile)
- Non quereu donzela fea / E ueloſa come cam
- I do not want an ugly maiden, as hairy as a dog
- 13th century, Cancioneiro da Biblioteca Nacional, Alfonso X of Castile, B 476: Non quer'eu donzela fea (facsimile)
Descendants edit
Old Occitan edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Conjunction edit
can
- when
- c. 1200, Peire Vidal, Ab l'alen tir vas me l'aire:
- Tan m'es bel quan n'aug ben dire.
- So much it pleases me when I hear it spoken of well.
Adverb edit
can
- (interrogative) when
Descendants edit
- Occitan: quand
Salar edit
Etymology edit
From Persian جان (jân, “soul, life, life force”).
Pronunciation edit
- (Jiezi, Gaizi, Qingshui, Xunhua, Qinghai) IPA(key): [ʒɑn]
- (Jiezi, Gaizi, Xunhua, Qinghai) IPA(key): [ʒɑːn]
- (Mengda, Qingshui, Xunhua, Qinghai) IPA(key): [ʝɑn]
Noun edit
can
References edit
- Tenishev, Edhem (1976) “can”, in Stroj salárskovo jazyká [Grammar of Salar], Moscow, pages 371, 564
Scots edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English can, first and third person singular of connen, cunnen (“to be able, know how”), from Old English can(n), first and third person singular of cunnan (“to know how”), from Proto-West Germanic *kunnan, from Proto-Germanic *kunnaną, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵneh₃- (whence know).
Verb edit
can (third-person singular simple present can, simple past cud)
- can
- be able to
- He shuid can dae that. ― He should be able to do that.
Derived terms edit
- cannae (“cannot”)
Scottish Gaelic edit
Etymology edit
From Old Irish canaid (“to sing”), from Proto-Celtic *kaneti (“to sing”), from Proto-Indo-European *keh₂n-. Compare Welsh canu, Latin canō, Ancient Greek καναχέω (kanakhéō), Persian خواندن (xândan).
Verb edit
can (past chan, future canaidh, verbal noun cantainn or canail or cantail, past participle cante)
- to say
- cha chan mi càil mus can mi cus ― I won't say anything before I've said too much
- to sing (a song)
- future indicative dependent of can
Usage notes edit
- In most dialects of Scottish Gaelic still spoken, with the notable exception of Islay, the future and conditional tenses and the imperative form are very often used for the verb abair in place of the actual abair forms, particularly in colloquial language; the abair forms are recognised but considered Biblical or excessively formal. Some northern dialects, such as Skye and Lewis, extend this to verbal noun forms derived from can, such as cantainn and canail.
References edit
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Latin canis, canem (“dog”). Cognate with Catalan ca, Portuguese cão.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
can m (plural canes)
Hypernyms edit
Hyponyms edit
Related terms edit
Further reading edit
- “can”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Turkish edit
Etymology edit
From Ottoman Turkish جان, from Persian جان (jân, “soul, vital spirit, life”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
can (definite accusative canı, plural canlar)
Declension edit
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Definite accusative | canı | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Singular | Plural | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nominative | can | canlar | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Definite accusative | canı | canları | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dative | cana | canlara | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Locative | canda | canlarda | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Ablative | candan | canlardan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Genitive | canın | canların | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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See also edit
Venetian edit
Etymology edit
From Latin canis, canem.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
can m (plural cani)
Vietnamese edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [kaːn˧˧]
- (Huế) IPA(key): [kaːŋ˧˧]
- (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA(key): [kaːŋ˧˧]
Audio (Hà Nội) (file)
Etymology 1 edit
Sino-Vietnamese word from 肝.
Noun edit
can
Etymology 2 edit
Sino-Vietnamese word from 干.
Noun edit
can
- Short for Thiên Can (“celestial stem”).
Verb edit
can
- to concern; to apply to
- to be involved (in); to be implicated (in)
Etymology 3 edit
Non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 諫 (SV: gián).
Verb edit
can
Etymology 4 edit
Noun edit
Etymology 5 edit
Verb edit
can
Etymology 6 edit
Verb edit
can
- to trace (through translucent paper), to do tracing
Derived terms edit
Volapük edit
Noun edit
can (nominative plural cans)
- sales commodity, merchandise, wares
Declension edit
Welsh edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kand- (“to shine, glow”).
See also Ancient Greek κάνδαρος (kándaros, “charcoal”), Albanian hënë (“moon”), Sanskrit चन्द्र (candrá, “shining”) and Old Armenian խանդ (xand).
Adjective edit
can (feminine singular can, plural can, equative canned, comparative cannach, superlative cannaf)
Noun edit
can m (plural caniau)
Derived terms edit
Etymology 2 edit
1,000 | ||||
[a], [b], [c] ← 90 | [a], [b], [c], [d] ← 99 | 100 | 101 → | 200 → |
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10[a], [b] | ||||
Cardinal (vigesimal): pum ugain Cardinal: cant, (before nouns) can Ordinal: canfed Ordinal abbreviation: 100fed |
From Middle Welsh and Old Welsh cant, from Proto-Brythonic *kant, from Proto-Celtic *kantom (“hundred”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱm̥tóm.
Numeral edit
can
- (cardinal number) Apocopic form of cant (“one hundred”)
Usage notes edit
- This is the form the number cant (“one hundred”) takes when it precedes a noun.
Etymology 3 edit
Noun edit
can m (plural caniau)
- a can
Mutation edit
Welsh mutation | |||
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radical | soft | nasal | aspirate |
can | gan | nghan | chan |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
See also edit
Further reading edit
- R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “can”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies
- Definition from the BBC.
Yucatec Maya edit
Etymology 1 edit
Numeral edit
can
Etymology 2 edit
Noun edit
can