cuán
Aragonese
editAdverb
editcuán
Irish
editPronunciation
editEtymology 1
editFrom Old Irish cúán. By surface analysis, cú + -án.
Noun
editcuán m (genitive singular cuáin, nominative plural cuáin)
- diminutive of cú (“hound, greyhound”)
Derived terms
edit- cuán mara m (“sea-urchin”)
Related terms
edit- cuain f (“litter of puppies”)
Etymology 2
editNoun
editcuán m (genitive singular cuáin, nominative plural cuáin)
- Alternative form of cumhán (“(fit of) lonesomeness; anxiety, sorrow”)
Declension
editDeclension of cuán
Mutation
editIrish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
cuán | chuán | gcuán |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading
edit- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “cuán”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
Mandarin
editAlternative forms
editRomanization
edit- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 劗/𭄛
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 巑/𰏁
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 攢/攒
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 櫕
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 濽
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 蹰
Spanish
editPronunciation
editAdverb
editcuán
- accented form of cuan (used when interrogative or exclamatory)
- 1877, Benito Pérez Galdós, Gloria:
- Si siguieras mis indicaciones que son las de una madre desinteresada, y se ajustan al criterio de tu padre y a la voluntad de tu santo tío, entonces, querida Gloria, ¡cuán distinta sería tu situación ante Dios y ante los hombres!
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Further reading
edit- “cuán”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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