EnglishEdit

Etymology 1Edit

From Stan (Stanley), after the song Stan by Eminem (2000),[1] a fictitious account of the rapper's encounter with an overly obsessive fan named Stan. Sometimes assumed to be a blend of stalker +‎ fan, but perhaps simply chosen for the rhyme.[2]

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PronunciationEdit

  • (UK, North America) IPA(key): /stæn/
  • enPR: stăn
  • Rhymes: -æn
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NounEdit

stan (plural stans)

  1. (Internet slang, sometimes derogatory) An extremely obsessive fan of a person, group, character, or creative work, particularly one whose fixation is unhealthy or intrusive.
    IU stan
    K-pop stan
    Dream stan
    • 2011, Vanessa Spates, "Whether in Britney's Army or Rihanna's Navy, stans need to surrender to sanity", The Lantern (Ohio State University), Volume 132, Number 16, 11 October 2011, page 9A:
      I know the in-depth detailed life of a stan because I am one. I'm one of those Lady Gaga fans, []
    • 2013, "Selena Gomez: She Is My Queen", Sunday Tribune (South Africa), 17 March 2013:
      I am the biggest stan for Selena because she is my queen. She made Disney interesting and I have always watched her.
    • 2013, Jake Folsom, "Stans take dedication to extreme heights online, in real life", Washington Square News, Volume 41, Number 104, 5 December 2013, page 11:
      Incidents have occurred with stans showing up to pop stars' residences, as has happened with Madonna, Taylor Swift and others.
    • 2020 June 21, “TikTok Teens and K-Pop Stans Say They Sank Trump Rally”, in New York Times[2]:
      K-pop stans have been getting increasingly involved in American politics in recent months. After the Trump campaign solicited messages for the president’s birthday on June 8, K-pop stans submitted a stream of prank messages.
    • 2022 April 29, Ezra Marcus, “Johnny Depp Case Brings Stan Culture Into the Courtroom”, in The New York Times[3], →ISSN:
      Stans will literally go to any extent to defend anyone,” he said of Mr. Depp’s supporters, adding: “Amber Heard, she has not got that fan base.”
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VerbEdit

stan (third-person singular simple present stans, present participle stanning, simple past and past participle stanned)

  1. (slang, transitive, intransitive) To act as a stan (for); to be an obsessive fan (of).
    We stan a queen.
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Etymology 2Edit

Back-formation from -stan.

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NounEdit

stan (plural stans)

  1. One of the stans; any of the ex-Soviet countries and their neighbours whose name ends with "-stan" such as Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Kazakhstan.
    • 2015 July 30, Jules Boykoff, “Beijing and Almaty contest Winter Olympics in human rights nightmare”, in The Guardian[4]:
      This is a stan with a plan. Unlike Uzbekistan [] .

Further readingEdit

ReferencesEdit

  1. ^ Eminem; Dido; Paul Herman (lyrics and music) (2000), “Stan”, in The Marshall Mathers LP, performed by Eminem: “ [] truly yours, your biggest fan, this is Stan”
  2. ^ Lili Feinberg (20 July 2015), “The emergence of the ‘stan’”, in Oxford Dictionaries Blog[1], archived from the original on 2015-07-23

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AlbanianEdit

EtymologyEdit

From a South Slavic language, ultimately derived from Proto-Slavic *stanъ (lodging). Compare Bulgarian стан (stan, camp), Serbo-Croatian stȃn (apartment);[1] non-Slavic cognates include Romanian stână and Greek στάνη (stáni).

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stan m (indefinite plural stane, definite singular stani, definite plural stanet)

  1. A shepherd's hut.
  2. A herd of sheep or other livestock.

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ReferencesEdit

  1. ^ Omari, Anila (2012), “stan”, in Marrëdhëniet Gjuhësore Shqiptaro-Serbe, Tirana, Albania: Krishtalina KH, page 268-269

CzechEdit

 
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EtymologyEdit

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *stanъ.

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stan m inan

  1. tent

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Further readingEdit

  • stan in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
  • stan in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
  • stan in Internetová jazyková příručka

Middle EnglishEdit

NounEdit

stan (plural stanes or stan)

  1. Alternative form of stone

Old DutchEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-West Germanic *stān.

VerbEdit

stān

  1. To stand.

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DescendantsEdit

  • Middle Dutch: stâen
    • Dutch: staan
      • Afrikaans: staan
      • Berbice Creole Dutch: tan
      • Jersey Dutch: stân
      • Negerhollands: staan, tan
      • Biak: vestan
    • Limburgish: staon

Further readingEdit

  • stān”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

Old EnglishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-West Germanic *stain, from Proto-Germanic *stainaz, from Proto-Indo-European *steyh₂no-, *stih₂-no- (a suffixed form of *steyh₂- (to be solid, to crowd together)).

Cognate with Old Frisian stēn, Old Saxon stēn (German Low German Steen), Old Dutch sten, stein (Dutch steen), Old High German stein (German Stein), Old Norse steinn (Icelandic steinn, Faroese steinur, Norwegian Nynorsk stein, Norwegian Bokmål stein, sten, Danish sten, Swedish sten), Gothic 𐍃𐍄𐌰𐌹𐌽𐍃 (stains). The Indo-European root is also the source of Ancient Greek στῖον (stîon, pebble), Proto-Slavic *stěnà (Bulgarian стена (stena), Russian стена́ (stená), Czech stěna (wall)).

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NounEdit

stān m

  1. stone

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Old SaxonEdit

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EtymologyEdit

From Proto-West Germanic *stān.

VerbEdit

stān

  1. To stand.

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PolishEdit

 
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EtymologyEdit

Inherited from Old Polish stan, from Proto-Slavic *stanъ.

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NounEdit

stan m inan

  1. state (of affairs), condition
  2. state (e.g., a political division of Australia or the United States)
  3. (rare) state (sovereign polity)
  4. waist (a part of a piece of clothing that covers the waist)

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nouns

Further readingEdit

  • stan in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • stan in Polish dictionaries at PWN

RomanianEdit

NounEdit

stan n (plural stanuri)

  1. Alternative form of stană

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Serbo-CroatianEdit

 
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EtymologyEdit

From Proto-Slavic *stanъ, whence also stȁti (to stand), stȁviti (to set, place), stȁdo (herd) and stȏl (table).

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stȃn m (Cyrillic spelling ста̑н)

  1. flat, apartment
  2. loom (tkàlačkī stȃn)

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ReferencesEdit

  • stan” in Hrvatski jezični portal

SlovakEdit

 
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EtymologyEdit

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *stanъ, whence also stáť (to stand), staviť (to set, place), stádo (herd) and stôl (table).

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

stan m inan (genitive singular stanu, nominative plural stany, genitive plural stanov, declension pattern of dub)

  1. tent
  2. (slang) erection, hard-on

DeclensionEdit

Further readingEdit

  • stan in Slovak dictionaries at slovnik.juls.savba.sk

SwedishEdit

Alternative formsEdit

EtymologyEdit

Contraction of staden, the definite singular of stad.

NounEdit

stan

  1. (colloquial) The town, the city.
    stan
    downtown

Usage notesEdit

  • Stockholmers insist that stan always refers to Stockholm and no other cities. The phrase inte i stan (not in the town) to them means outside of Stockholm, but to other Swedes it means outside of any town, i.e., in the countryside.

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