lan
Balinese
Basque
Pronunciation
Audio (file) - IPA(key): /lan/ [lãn]
- Rhymes: -an
- Hyphenation: lan
Declension
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 | lanean | 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'
Haitian Creole
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /lã/
Javanese
Lower Sorbian
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/
Declension
Further reading
- Muka, Arnošt (1921, 1928) “lan”, in Słownik dolnoserbskeje rěcy a jeje narěcow (in German), St. Petersburg, Prague: ОРЯС РАН, ČAVU; Reprinted Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag, 2008
- Starosta, Manfred (1999) “lan”, in Dolnoserbsko-nimski słownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch (in German), Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag
Mandarin
Romanization
lan
Usage notes
- 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 Irish
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From English LAN, acronym of local area network.
Noun
lan n (definite singular lanet, indefinite plural lan, definite plural lana)
- (networking) a LAN
- (computing) a LAN party
References
- Cf. “lan” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
Anagrams
Old Javanese
Etymology
Probably from earlier len, lyan (“other, different”), inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *lian (“to change appearance”).
Further reading
- "lan" in P.J. Zoetmulder with the collaboration of S.O. Robson, Old Javanese-English Dictionary. 's-Gravenhage: M. Nijhoff, 1982.
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic льнъ (lĭnŭ), from Proto-Slavic *lьnъ. Compare Ukrainian лан (lan).
Tetum
Etymology
Borrowed from Portuguese lã, from Old Galician-Portuguese lãa (“wool”), from Latin lāna (“wool”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂wĺ̥h₁neh₂ (“wool”).
Vietnamese
Pronunciation
- (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [laːn˧˧]
- (Huế) IPA(key): [laːŋ˧˧]
- (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA(key): [laːŋ˧˧]
Etymology 1
Compare tràn (“to overflow”).
Etymology 2
Sino-Vietnamese word from 蘭.
Wab
Further reading
- John Carter, Katie Carter, John Grummitt, Bonnie MacKenzie, Janell Masters, A Sociolinguistic Survey of the Mur Village Vernaculars (2012)
Welsh
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /lan/
- Rhymes: -an
Etymology 1
The sense of "up, upwards" comes from an abbreviation of the phrase i'r lan "to the shore, ashore; upwards".
Derived terms
- lan a lawr (“up and down”)
- lan lofft (“upstairs”)
- lanlwytho (“to upload”)
West Coast Bajau
Etymology
From Proto-Sama-Bajaw *lalan, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *zalan, from Proto-Austronesian *zalan.
Yámana
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