yan

• IPA^(key): /jæn/, /jɛn/

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• Rhymes: -æn, -ɛn

Along with ane and yen, a Northumbrian form of one, from the Old English ān. An example is "yan, twee, tree, fower" for "one, two, three, four".

yan

1. (Northumbria, Cumbria) One.

• yance or yence

• Griffiths, Bill (2004) A Dictionary of North East Dialect, Northumbria University Press, →ISBN, page 191
• Leith, Dick (1997) A Social History of English, Routledge, →ISBN, page 45

From Brythonic numerals, with influence from Old English ān or modern Northern English yan or yen.

yan

1. (Cumbria) One in Cumbrian sheep counting rhyme.

• (Borrowdale sheep counting) yan, tyan, tethera, methera, pimp, sethera, lethera, hovera, dovera, dick, yan-a-dick, tyan-a-dick, tethera-a-dick, methera-a-dick, bumfit, yan-a-bumfit, tyan-a-bumfit, tethera-a-bumfit, methera-bumfit, giggot

• Wright, Peter (1995) Cumbrian Chat, Dalesman Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 7
• Deakin, Michael A.B. (2007) Leigh-Lancaster, David, editor, The Name of the Number‎, Australian Council for Educational Research, →ISBN, retrieved 2008-05-17, page 75
• Varvogli, Aliki (2002) Annie Proulx's The Shipping News: A Reader's Guide‎, Continuum International Publishing Group, →ISBN, retrieved 2008-05-17, pages 24-25

• AYN, Ayn, NAY, NYA, Nay, any, any%, ayn, nay

from Proto-Turkic *yān (“side”). Cognate with Chuvash ҫум (śum), etc.

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yan (definite accusative yanı, plural yanlar)

1. side

   Synonym: tərəf

2. (anatomy) buttock

• hayan (“which side, where”)
• yanında (“next to”)
• yanına (“to”)
• yan-yana, yanbayan (“side by side”)
• yan baxmaq (“to look askance, look sideways”)
• yan almaq (“to dock”)

yan

1. here

• yen

• IPA^(key): /ˈjan/, [ˈjan̪]

'yan

1. Nonstandard spelling of iyan.

yan

1. and

Used to connect similar words or phrases. To indicate causation the alternate ya is used.

• ya

• jan, yain, jain

From Latin annus.

yan m

1. year (Vegliot)

From *giyan, compare Ibanag gian.

yan

1. place

yan

1. Nonstandard spelling of yān.
2. Nonstandard spelling of yán.
3. Nonstandard spelling of yǎn.
4. Nonstandard spelling of yàn.

• 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.

From English yarn, from the expression spin a yarn.

yan

1. to talk
   • (Can we date this quote?), Anthonia Ujene, “Khalai yan with plant”, in Storybooks African Languages‎:

     Khalai dey yan to flower wen surround her school. “Abeg oo flower, make grow strong oo so yeye person no go fit enter our school.”

     Khalai talks to the flower around her school. “Please flower, grow strong so bad people won't come into our school.”

• IPA^(key): /jɑːn/

Confer Persian یا (yâ).

• ya, yane, yanê

yan (Arabic spelling یان)

1. or

   Synonym: (after a word ending in a consonant) an

• → Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܝܲܢ (yan)

yan (Arabic spelling یان)

1. Alternative form of yenî (“that is to say”)

• Chyet, Michael L. (2020) “yan I”, in Ferhenga Birûskî: Kurmanji–English Dictionary (Language Series; 2), volume 2, London: Transnational Press, page 428
• Chyet, Michael L. (2020) “yan II”, in Ferhenga Birûskî: Kurmanji–English Dictionary (Language Series; 2), volume 2, London: Transnational Press, page 428

yan

1. if

yan

1. canoe

• Antônio Almeida, A lingua Tapirapé. http://biblio.wdfiles.com/local--files/almeida-1983-tapirape/almeida_1983_tapirape.pdf

yan (Baybayin spelling ᜌᜈ᜔)

1. Alternative spelling of 'yan

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish یان (yan), from Proto-Turkic *yān (“side”).

yan (definite accusative yanı, plural yanlar)

1. side

   Adam, eşyalarımın yanında oturuyordu.

   The man was sitting next to my belongings.

yan

1. second-person singular imperative of yanmak

Probably borrowed from Latin iānua.

• IPA^(key): /jan/

yan (nominative plural yans)

1. door

• leyan

• yanul

yan

1. here