lan

See also: Appendix:Variations of "lan"

Basque

Noun

lan inan

1. work, task
2. labour
3. annoyance, trouble

Declension

Declension of lan (inanimate) indefinite singular plural absolutive lan lana lanak ergative lanek lanak lanek dative lani lanari lanei genitive lanen lanaren lanen comitative lanekin lanarekin lanekin causative lanengatik lanarengatik lanengatik benefactive lanentzat lanarentzat lanentzat instrumental lanez lanaz lanez inessive lanetan lanan lanetan locative lanetako laneko lanetako allative lanetara lanera lanetara terminative lanetaraino laneraino lanetaraino directive lanetarantz lanerantz lanetarantz destinative lanetarako lanerako lanetarako ablative lanetatik lanetik lanetatik partitive lanik - - prolative lantzat - -

Derived terms

• lan egin 'work' (v.)
• lantegi 'workplace'

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Haitian Creole

Article

lan

1. the (definite article)

Usage notes

Use this word only after a word that ends with a nasal vowel and an oral (non-nasal) consonant, in that order, and when it modifies a singular noun.

See also

• a
• an
• la
• nan
• yo
• yon

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Javanese

Conjunction

lan

1. and

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Lower Sorbian

lan

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *lьnъ, from Proto-Indo-European *lino-; cognate with Upper Sorbian len, Polish len, Czech len, Russian лён (ljon), Old Church Slavonic льнѣнъ (lĭněnŭ).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lan/

Noun

lan m (diminutive lank)

1. flax (“Linum usitatissimum”)

Declension

Declension of lan

	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	lan	lana	lany
Genitive	lana	lanowu	lanow
Dative	lanoju	lanoma	lanam
Accusative	lan	lana	lany
Instrumental	lanom	lanoma	lanami
Locative	lanje	lanoma	lanach

Further reading

• lan in Ernst Muka/Mucke (St. Petersburg and Prague 1911–28): Słownik dolnoserbskeje rěcy a jeje narěcow / Wörterbuch der nieder-wendischen Sprache und ihrer Dialekte. Reprinted 2008, Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag.
• lan in Manfred Starosta (1999): Dolnoserbsko-nimski słownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch. Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag.

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Mandarin

Romanization

lan

1. Nonstandard spelling of lán.
2. Nonstandard spelling of lǎn.
3. Nonstandard spelling of làn.

Usage notes

• English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

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Middle Irish

Adjective

lan

1. Alternative spelling of lán

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From English LAN, acronym of local area network.

Noun

lan n (definite singular lanet, indefinite plural lan, definite plural lana)

1. (networking) a LAN
2. (computing) a LAN party

Derived terms

• lana, lane (verb)

References

• Cf. “lan” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Anagrams

• nal

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Novial

Determiner

lan

1. her

Pronoun

lan

1. hers

Related terms

• la
• lasen

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Romanian

Etymology

From a Slavic form; compare Ukrainian лан (lan).

Noun

lan n (plural lanuri)

1. field (arable land)

Declension

Declension of lan

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) lan	lanul	(niște) lanuri	lanurile
genitive/dative	(unui) lan	lanului	(unor) lanuri	lanurilor
vocative	lanule		lanurilor

Synonyms

• ogor

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *lьnъ.

Noun

lȁn m (Cyrillic spelling ла̏н)

1. flax

Declension

Declension of lan

	singular	plural
nominative	lan	lanovi
genitive	lana	lanova
dative	lanu	lanovima
accusative	lan	lanove
vocative	lanu	lanovi
locative	lanu	lanovima
instrumental	lanom	lanovima

Derived terms

• lànen

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Tetum

Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese lã, from Old Portuguese lãa (“wool”), from Latin lāna (“wool”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂wĺ̥h₁neh₂ (“wool”).

Noun

lan

1. wool

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Turkish

Interjection

lan

1. ulan

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Vietnamese

Pronunciation

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [laːn˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [laːŋ˧˧]
• (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [laːŋ˧˧]

Etymology 1

From Proto-Mon-Khmer *laaɲ (“to spread; to be propagated”); cognate with Bahnar lanh (“to spread”), Khasi laiñ-laiñ (“from place to place”), Mon သၞာန် (hənan, “to spread”) (through a prefixed form). Compare also tràn (“to overflow”).

Verb

lan

1. to spread; to run

Derived terms

Derived terms

• lan man
• lan truyền
• tràn lan

 

Etymology 2

Sino-Vietnamese word from 蘭.

Noun

(classifier cây, bông, hoa) lan

1. orchid

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Wab

Noun

lan

1. water

Further reading

• John Carter, Katie Carter, John Grummitt, Bonnie MacKenzie, Janell Masters, A Sociolinguistic Survey of the Mur Village Vernaculars (2012)

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Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lan/

Etymology 1

The sense of "up, upwards" comes from an abbreviation of the phrase i'r lan "to the shore, ashore; upwards".

Preposition

lan

1. (South Wales) up

   Sa i'n mynd lan yr Wyddfa ei hunan. ― I'm not going up Snowdon itself.

   Synonym: i fyny

   Antonym: i lawr

Adverb

lan

1. (South Wales) up, upwards

   Sa i'n mynd lan gyda ti. ― I'm not going up with you.

   Synonym: i fyny

   Antonym: i lawr

Noun

lan

1. Soft mutation of glan (“shore, bank”).

Derived terms

• lanlwytho (“to upload”)

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
glan	lan	nglan	unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Etymology 2

Noun

lan

1. Soft mutation of llan (“church”).

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
llan	lan	unchanged	unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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Westrobothnian

Etymology 1

From Old Norse *lǫ́n, from Proto-Germanic *laihwną, from Proto-Indo-European *leykʷ-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /loːɳ/, /lɑːɳ/, /loːn/

Noun

lan

1. A loan.
2. A confused, lost person.

Related terms

• laan
• loon

Etymology 2

Noun

lan

1. Alternative spelling of land

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Yámana

Noun

lan

1. tongue

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Zhuang

Etymology

From Proto-Tai *ʰlaːnᴬ (“nephew; niece; grandchild”). Cognate with Thai หลาน (lǎan), Northern Thai ᩉᩖᩣ᩠ᨶ, Khün ᩉᩖᩣ᩠ᨶ, Lao ຫຼານ (lān), Lü ᦜᦱᧃ (l̇aan), Tai Dam ꪨꪱꪙ, Shan လၢၼ် (lǎan), Tai Nüa ᥘᥣᥢᥴ (láan), Ahom 𑜎𑜃𑜫 (lan), Saek หล่าน.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Zhuang) IPA^(key): /laːn˨˦/
• Tone numbers: lan¹
• Hyphenation: lan

Noun

lan (classifier boux, Sawndip forms 𭓀 or 𰌮 or 𭓎 or 𬞕, old orthography lan)

1. grandchild; grandson

Derived terms

• bawxlan
• ciuhlan
• daeglan
• dahlan
• daihlan
• goyelan
• goyezlan
• goyilan
• lanbaex
• lanbawx
• lancaiz
• landaeuz
• langwiz
• lanlaej
• lanlux
• lanluz
• lanmbauq
• lanmbwk
• lannyingz
• lanranzrog
• lansai
• lansau
• lanvaihseng
• lanvaiqseng
• lwglan