maan

See also: Maan, mån, -maan, and mään

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch maan, from Middle Dutch mâne, from Old Dutch *māno, from Proto-West Germanic *mānō, from Proto-Germanic *mēnô, from Proto-Indo-European *mḗh₁n̥s.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mɑːn/
  • (file)

Noun

maan (plural mane)

  1. moon

Amis

Pronoun

maan

  1. (interrogative) what

References

Chuukese

Alternative forms

Noun

maan

  1. animal

References

  • A sketch of Trukese grammar (1965)
  • Trukese-English Dictionary (1990)

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /maːn/
  • (file)
  • Hyphenation: maan
  • Rhymes: -aːn

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch mâne, from Old Dutch *māno, from Proto-Germanic *mēnô, from Proto-Indo-European *mḗh₁n̥s. The Germanic word was originally masculine (compare German Mond), but it became feminine in Early Middle Dutch (perhaps by analogy with zon).

Noun

maan f (plural manen, diminutive maantje n)

  1. moon
Derived terms
Descendants
  • Afrikaans: maan
  • Berbice Creole Dutch: manti
  • Jersey Dutch: mân, môn
  • Negerhollands: maand, man, maen
  • Aukan: manti

Etymology 2

From Middle Dutch māne, from Old Dutch *mana, from Proto-West Germanic *manu, from Proto-Germanic *manō.

Noun

maan f (plural manen, diminutive maantje n)

  1. mane
Derived terms

Verb

maan

  1. inflection of manen:
    1. first-person singular present indicative
    2. imperative

Anagrams

Finnish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmɑːn/, [ˈmɑ̝ːn]
  • Rhymes: -ɑːn
  • Syllabification(key): maan

Noun

maan

  1. genitive singular of maa

Etymology 2

Possibly a folk etymology of maar, reinterpreted as maan (the genitive singular of maa; see etymology 1).

Adverb

maan

  1. (regional, Tampere, Turku) An intensifier, chiefly used before a -sti adverb or adjective; so, very
Usage notes

Very often prefixed with niin (niin maan).

Anagrams

Kanakanabu

Kanakanabu cardinal numbers
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    Cardinal : maan

Numeral

maan

  1. ten

Nzadi

Noun

máán (plural only)

  1. wine (clarification of this definition is needed)

Further reading

  • Crane, Thera, Larry Hyman, Simon Nsielanga Tukumu (2011) A grammar of Nzadi [B.865]: a Bantu language of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, →ISBN
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