English

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Etymology 1

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From Middle English han, contraction of haven.

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han

  1. (obsolete) plural simple present of have

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From Korean 한(恨) (han), from Middle Chinese (MC honH).

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han (uncountable)

  1. Sorrowful resentment, as a part of the Korean cultural identity.
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Albanian

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han m (plural hane, definite hani, definite plural hanet)

  1. khan
  2. (archaic) roadside shelter for travellers and their animals: roadside hostelry, caravanserai, inn
  3. (pejorative) fleabag hotel
  4. messy place with no control of who comes and who leaves, regular flophouse

Basque

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  • IPA(key): (Southern) /an/, [ãn]
  • IPA(key): (Northern) /han/, [ɦãn]

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han (not comparable)

  1. there (away from the speaker and the listener)

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Further reading

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  • han”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy], Euskaltzaindia
  • han”, in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], Euskaltzaindia, 1987–2005

Catalan

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han

  1. third-person plural present indicative of haver

Central Franconian

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  • hann (most dialects)

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From Middle High German hān, from Old High German havēn, northern variant of habēn, from Proto-West Germanic *habbjan.

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han (irregular, third-person singular present hat, past tense hauw, past participle jehad, past subjunctive häu)

  1. (Ripuarian and Kölsch, auxiliary, with a past participle) to have (forms the perfect and past perfect tense)
  2. (same dialects, transitive) to have; to own (to possess, have ownership of; to possess a certain characteristic)
  3. (same dialects, transitive) to have; to hold (to contain within itself/oneself)
    Uur hat doa Floep va.
    You are afraid of that.
    (literally, “You have fear of that.”)
  4. (same dialects, transitive) to have, get (to obtain, acquire)
  5. (same dialects, transitive) to get (to receive)
  6. (same dialects, transitive) to have (to be afflicted with, suffer from)
  7. (same dialects, transitive, of units of measure) to contain, be composed of, equal
    Ing Menuut hat 60 Sekonde.
    There are 60 seconds in one minute.
    (literally, “One minute has 60 seconds.”)
  8. (same dialects, impersonal, with het or 't) there be, there is, there are
  9. (same dialects, with 't and mit) to be occupied with, to like, to be into
    Iech han't nit zoeë mit Höng.
    I'm not a great fan of dogs.
    (literally, “I don't have it that much with dogs.”)
  10. (same dialects, with 't and uvver) to talk about
    Vier hauwe't juus uvver dienge Vrunk.
    We were just talking about your friend.
    (literally, “We just had it about your friend.”)

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Further reading

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  • “han” in d'r nuie Kirchröadsjer Dieksiejoneer 2nd ed., 2017.

Czech

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han f

  1. genitive plural of hana

Danish

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From Old Norse hann (dative hánum).

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han (genitive hans, accusative ham)

  1. he

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han c (singular definite hannen, plural indefinite hanner)

  1. male, he

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Galician

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han

  1. third-person plural present indicative of haber

German

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han

  1. (archaic or dialectal) Alternative form of haben
    • 1812, Brothers Grimm, “Kinder- und Haus-Märchen”, in Der gescheidte Hans, page 138:
      Hansens Mutter spricht: „wohin Hans?“ Hans antwortet: „zur Grethel.“ – „Machs gut Hans“ – „Schon gut machen, Adies, Mutter“ – Hans kommt zur Grethel: „guten Tag Grethel.“ – „Guten Hans: was bringst du Gutes?“ – „Bring nichts, gegeben han.“
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

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hàn

  1. song
    Synonym: òhàn

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Gwich'in

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Etymology

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Cognate with Tlingit héen (water, river).

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han

  1. river

Japanese

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han

  1. Rōmaji transcription of はん

Kaingang

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han (singular)

  1. (transitive) to do; to make
  2. (auxiliary) forms verbs from nouns
    asĩg han
    to sneeze

Khasi

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han

  1. duck

Mandarin

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han

  1. Nonstandard spelling of hān.
  2. Nonstandard spelling of hán.
  3. Nonstandard spelling of hǎn.
  4. Nonstandard spelling of hàn.

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  • 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 English

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Etymology

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Contracted infinitive and plural present of haven.

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han

  1. (transitive) Alternative form of haven - Piers Plowman.

Nguôn

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han

  1. two

Norman

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Etymology

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From Old Norse hampr.

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han m (plural hans)

  1. (Jersey) galangal

Northern Kurdish

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han

  1. this
    Synonym: ev

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  • Chyet, Michael L. (2003) “han”, in Kurdish–English Dictionary[2], with selected etymologies by Martin Schwartz, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, page 231

Norwegian Bokmål

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From Old Norse hann.

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han

  1. he, him

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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From Old Norse hann.

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han

  1. he, him, it (third person singular, masculine)

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Han is used to refer not only to masculine persons, but any masculine noun. E.g.: Bilen er fin. Eg likar han. - The car is nice. I like it.

In some dialects, han may precede a male given name or a difinite singular masculine noun. E.g: Kor vart det tå han Erik? (Where did Erik disappeared?)

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Old Danish

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From Old Norse hann.

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han

  1. he / it (masculine nominative pronoun)

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  • Danish: han

Old Swedish

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Etymology

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From Old Norse hann.

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han

  1. he
    han ær mīn vinhe is my friend

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Portuguese

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han (invariable)

  1. Han Chinese (referring to the largest ethnic group indigenous to China)

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han m (plural han or hans)

  1. Han Chinese (member of the largest ethnic group indigenous to China)

Rohingya

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han

  1. ear

Romanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish خان (han), from Persian خان (xân, caravanserai), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂wes- (to dwell).

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han n (plural hanuri)

  1. inn, caravanserai

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Russenorsk

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Inherited from Norwegian Nynorsk han (he).

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Unknown. Possible examples:

  • IPA(key): /han/, /haɲ/ (Norwegian accent)
  • IPA(key): /xan/, /xanʲ/ (Russian accent)

There is no evidence of palatalization of the /n/-sound, although it should be there at least in the Northern Norwegian pronunciation.

There is also no known examples of the Russian pronunciation, where the letter h may be pronounced as /g/ (see gaf and gall).

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han

  1. he

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  • Ingvild Broch, Ernst H. Jahr (1984) Russenorsk: Et pidginspråk i Norge [Russenorsk: A pidgin language in Norway], 2 edition, Oslo: Novus Forlag, pages 113, 119

Samoan Plantation Pidgin

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Etymology

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From English hand.

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han

  1. arm
  2. hand

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Only used to refer to a human; for an animal, the equivalent parts are all labelled as lek.

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  • Mosel, Ulrike (1980) Tolai and Tok Pisin: the influence of the substratum on the development of New Guinea Pidgin (Pacific Linguistics; Series B, no. 73)‎[3], Canberra: Australian National University, →ISBN
  • Peter, Mühlhäusler (1983) “Samoan Plantation Pidgin English and the origin of New Guinea Pidgin”, in Ellen Woolford and William Washabaugh, editors, The Social Context of Creolization, Ann Arbor: Karoma, pages 28-76

Serbo-Croatian

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Etymology

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From Ottoman Turkish خان (han), from Persian خان (xân, caravanserai).

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hȃn m (Cyrillic spelling ха̑н)

  1. inn

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Spanish

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  • IPA(key): /ˈan/ [ˈãn]
  • Rhymes: -an
  • Syllabification: han

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han

  1. third-person plural present indicative of haber

Swedish

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From Old Swedish han, from Old Norse hann, from Proto-Norse *hānaʀ.

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han

  1. he, the third person singular, masculine, nominative case.
    Han är mycket stilig
    He is very handsome
  2. (nonstandard in writing, common in speech) him
    Synonym: (standard) honom
    Jag såg han / Jag såg'an
    I saw him

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See the usage notes for honom.

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Tetum

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Etymology

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From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kaən, compare Malay makan.

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han

  1. to eat

Tok Pisin

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From English hand.

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han

  1. hand
  2. arm
  3. foreleg (of an animal)
  4. wing (of a bird)
  5. branch (of a tree)
  6. branch (figurative)

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References

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  • Mosel, Ulrike (1980) Tolai and Tok Pisin: the influence of the substratum on the development of New Guinea Pidgin (Pacific Linguistics; Series B, no. 73)‎[4], Canberra: Australian National University, →ISBN
  • Peter, Mühlhäusler (1983) “Samoan Plantation Pidgin English and the origin of New Guinea Pidgin”, in Ellen Woolford and William Washabaugh, editors, The Social Context of Creolization, Ann Arbor: Karoma, pages 28-76

Turkish

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From Ottoman Turkish خان (han), probably of central Asian origin. Doublet of kağan and hakan.

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han (definite accusative hanı, plural hanlar)

  1. khan

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From Ottoman Turkish خان (han), from Persian خان (xân, caravanserai).

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han (definite accusative hanı, plural hanlar)

  1. inn (for caravans)

Vietnamese

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(classifier cây) han (𧄊)

  1. Dendrocnide

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han (𨫪)

  1. appeared to start to rust
    chiếc nồi đồng han xanh
    rusty green bronze pot

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han (𪡗, 𠻃)

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Yoruba

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Etymology 1

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Compare with Ifè ŋà, Olukumi ghàn, Itsekiri ghàn and possibly Igala ñà, from Proto-Yoruba *ɣɪ̃ã̀, *ŋɪ̃ã̀ , from Proto-Edekiri *ɣɪ̃ã̀, *ŋɪ̃ã̀, ultimately from Proto-Yoruboid *ŋɪ̃ã̀.

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hàn

  1. to appear, show; to be visible
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Etymology 2

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hàn

  1. to scribble
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Etymology 3

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hàn

  1. (Igbomina) to pluck leaves from a plant
    Synonym:

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Compare with Ifè ŋɔ́, Olukumi ghọn, Igala ñwọ̀, proposed to be derived from Proto-Yoruba *ɣɔ̃̀, *ŋɔ̃̀, from Proto-Edekiri *ɣɔ̃̀, *ŋɔ̃̀, ultimately from Proto-Yoruboid *ŋʷɔ̃̀, Proto-Yoruboid *wɔ̃̀. See Proto-Bantu *gon, Igbo gwọ, Urhobo ahọnre

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hàn

  1. to snore
    Synonym: han-an-run
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Etymology 5

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han

  1. to scream loudly
    Synonym:

Etymology 6

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hán

  1. (Igbomina) Alternative form of wọ́n (to catch something in the air)