stan
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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NounEdit
stan (plural stans)
- (Internet slang, sometimes derogatory) An extremely obsessive fan of a person, group, character, or creative work, particularly one whose fixation is unhealthy or intrusive.
- 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.
- 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:
HypernymsEdit
HyponymsEdit
- sasaeng (K-pop fandom)
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VerbEdit
stan (third-person singular simple present stans, present participle stanning, simple past and past participle stanned)
- (slang, transitive, intransitive) To act as a stan (for); to be an obsessive fan (of).
- We stan a queen.
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:stan.
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Etymology 2Edit
Back-formation from -stan.
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stan (plural stans)
- 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
"Stan" fans on Wikipedia.Wikipedia - Stan Twitter on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
ReferencesEdit
- ^ 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”
- ^ 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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NounEdit
stan m (indefinite plural stane, definite singular stani, definite plural stanet)
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ReferencesEdit
- ^ Omari, Anila (2012), “stan”, in Marrëdhëniet Gjuhësore Shqiptaro-Serbe, Tirana, Albania: Krishtalina KH, page 268-269
CzechEdit
EtymologyEdit
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *stanъ.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
stan m inan
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Middle EnglishEdit
NounEdit
stan (plural stanes or stan)
- Alternative form of stone
Old DutchEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-West Germanic *stān.
VerbEdit
stān
- To stand.
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This verb needs an inflection-table template.
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DescendantsEdit
- Middle Dutch: stâen
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”)).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
stān m
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Derived termsEdit
- byrþenstān (“mill-stone”)
- ċealcstān (“chalk-stone”)
- ċeoselstān (“sandstone, gravel”)
- cweornstān (“quernstone”)
- cynningstān (“trying-stone, die”)
- eorcnanstān (“precious-stone”)
- flōrstān (“floor-stone, pavement”)
- fōtstān (“foot-stone, pedastal”)
- fȳrstān (“firestone, flint”)
- grundstān (“groundstone, cornerstone, foundation”)
- hrōfstān (“roof-stone”)
- hwamstān (“cornerstone, foundation”)
- mǣrstān (“mere-stone, boundary-mark”)
- marmstān (“marble”)
- stānbeorg (“stone-hill”)
- stānbill (“stoneworking tool”)
- stānclif (“cliff, rock”)
- stānclūd (“rock”)
- stāncnoll (“rock summit, peak”)
- stāncynn (“a kind of stone”)
- stānfæt (“stone vessel”)
- stānfāh (“decorated with stones”)
- stānġiella (“stone-yeller, pelican”)
- stānhīewet (“stone quarry”)
- stānhliþ (“rocky slope”)
- stāniġ (“stony, rocky”)
- stānlīm (“cement, mortar”)
- stānweall (“stonewall”)
- stānweġ (“stoneway, stone path, pavement”)
- stānweorc (“stonework”)
- stānwyrhta (“stone-wright”)
- tæflstān (“die, game pawn”)
- tigelstān (“tilestone”)
- Wulfstān
DescendantsEdit
Old SaxonEdit
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EtymologyEdit
From Proto-West Germanic *stān.
VerbEdit
stān
- To stand.
ConjugationEdit
| infinitive | stān | |
|---|---|---|
| indicative | present | past |
| 1st person singular | *stā | stōd |
| 2nd person singular | stēs | stōdi |
| 3rd person singular | stēd | stōd |
| plural | stād | stōdun |
| subjunctive | present | past |
| 1st person singular | *stāe | stōdi |
| 2nd person singular | *stāes | stōdis |
| 3rd person singular | *stāe | stōdi |
| plural | *stāen | stōdin |
| imperative | present | |
| singular | stā | |
| plural | stād | |
| participle | present | past |
| stāndi | gistandan, standan | |
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PolishEdit
EtymologyEdit
Inherited from Old Polish stan, from Proto-Slavic *stanъ.
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stan m inan
- state (of affairs), condition
- state (e.g., a political division of Australia or the United States)
- (rare) state (sovereign polity)
- waist (a part of a piece of clothing that covers the waist)
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RomanianEdit
NounEdit
stan n (plural stanuri)
- Alternative form of stană
DeclensionEdit
| singular | plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
| nominative/accusative | (un) stan | stanul | (niște) stanuri | stanurile |
| genitive/dative | (unui) stan | stanului | (unor) stanuri | stanurilor |
| vocative | stanule | stanurilor | ||
Serbo-CroatianEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Slavic *stanъ, whence also stȁti (“to stand”), stȁviti (“to set, place”), stȁdo (“herd”) and stȏl (“table”).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
stȃn m (Cyrillic spelling ста̑н)
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QuotationsEdit
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:stan.
Derived termsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- “stan” in Hrvatski jezični portal
SlovakEdit
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)
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
- (colloquial) The town, the city.
- på stan
- downtown
- på stan
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.