See also: Pisan, pisaṅ, pīsan, and писан

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pisan (plural pisans)

  1. Alternative form of pisane
    • 1797, John Pinkerton, The History Of Scotland From The Accession Of The House Of Stuart To That Of Mary: With Appendixes Of Original Papers. In Two Volumes, page 406:
      [Those] worth ten pounds a year in land, or more, shall have basnet, sallat (or helm without a crest,) white-hat, gorget or pisan, armour for the legs, sword, spear, and dagger: those of smaller incomes to arm accordingly.
    • 1889, Bernard Homer Dixon, The Border Or Riding Clans: Followed by a History of the Clan Dickson and a Brief Account of the Family of the Author, Albany, N.Y.: J. Munsell's Sons, page 78:
      [] halbrik or brigantine, gorget or pisan with splents, knee.pans of mail and gauntlets of plate or mail; that unlanded gentlemen and yeoman have jacks of plate, halbriks, splents, sallat or steel bonnet with pisan or gorget  []
    • 1923, Edmund Curtis, A History of Mediaeval Ireland from 1110 to 1513, page 411:
      Garret was the true “Ard Ri” of a large part of Ireland, and the chiefs to whom he presented the horses, coats of mail, gorgets and pisans recorded in the Rental looked on these as the customary stipends due from an over-king.

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈpisan/ [ˈpi.san̪]
  • Hyphenation: pi‧san

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písan (Basahan spelling ᜉᜒᜐᜈ᜔)

  1. rare
    Synonym: bihira

French

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  • Audio (Switzerland):(file)

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pisan (feminine pisane, masculine plural pisans, feminine plural pisanes)

  1. Pisan (from Pisa)

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Galician

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pisan

  1. third-person plural present indicative of pisar

Kapampangan

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pisan

  1. cousin

Middle English

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Etymology

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Old French, see English pisane.

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pisan (plural pisans)

  1. a pisane (armor collar of mail or plate, or by extension an ornamental collar)

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Old English

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pisan

  1. inflection of pise:
    1. accusative/genitive/dative singular
    2. nominative/accusative plural

Romanian

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Etymology

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From Pisa +‎ -an.

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pisan m or n (feminine singular pisană, masculine plural pisani, feminine and neuter plural pisane)

  1. Pisan

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References

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  • pisan in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN

Serbo-Croatian

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pȋsān (Cyrillic spelling пи̑са̄н)

  1. written

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Spanish

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pisan

  1. third-person plural present indicative of pisar

Sundanese

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pisan

  1. very; utterly
    Synonym: jasa (dialectal, Banten)
    ngeunah pisan
    very tasty

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Tagalog

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Etymology 1

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Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *pisan. Doublet of pinsan.

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pisan (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜒᜐᜈ᜔)

  1. stuck together, strung together
    Synonyms: magkasama, magkadikit

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pisan (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜒᜐᜈ᜔)

  1. a roommate, a housemate
    Synonyms: kabahay, nakabahay
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Etymology 2

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Possibly related to Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *pasaŋ (flood tide).

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pisán (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜒᜐᜈ᜔)

  1. (literary) flood
    Synonym: baha

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