lan

English Online Dictionary. What means lan‎? What does lan mean?

Balinese

Conjunction

lan

1. and

Basque

Noun

lan inan

1. work, task
2. labour
3. annoyance, trouble

Declension

Derived terms

• lan egin 'work' (v.)
• lantegi 'workplace'

Fon

Etymology

Cognates include Gun làn, Saxwe Gbe olàn, Adja elan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lã̀/

Noun

làn (plural làn lɛ́)

1. meat

Derived terms

Gun

Alternative forms

• òlàn

Etymology

Cognates include Fon làn, Saxwe Gbe olàn, Adja elan, Ewe lã.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lã̀/

Noun

làn (plural làn lɛ́ or làn lẹ́)

1. meat

Derived terms

Haitian Creole

Article

lan

1. the (definite article)

Usage notes

Use this word only after a word that ends with a nasal vowel and an oral (non-nasal) consonant, in that order, and when it modifies a singular noun.

See also

• a
• an
• la
• nan
• yo
• yon

Javanese

Conjunction

lan

1. and

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/

Noun

lan m (diminutive lank)

1. flax (“Linum usitatissimum”)

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

1. Nonstandard spelling of lán.
2. Nonstandard spelling of lǎn.
3. Nonstandard spelling of làn.

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

Adjective

lan

1. Alternative spelling of lán

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From English LAN, acronym of local area network.

Noun

lan n (definite singular lanet, indefinite plural lan, definite plural lana)

1. (networking) a LAN
2. (computing) a LAN party

Derived terms

• lana, lane (verb)

References

• Cf. “lan” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Anagrams

• nal

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic льнъ (lĭnŭ), from Proto-Slavic *lьnъ. Compare Ukrainian лан (lan).

Noun

lan n (plural lanuri)

1. field (arable land)

   Synonym: ogor

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *lьnъ.

Noun

lȁn m (Cyrillic spelling ла̏н)

1. flax

Declension

Derived terms

• lànen

Tetum

Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese lã, from Old Galician-Portuguese lãa (“wool”), from Latin lāna (“wool”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂wĺ̥h₁neh₂ (“wool”).

Noun

lan

1. wool

Turkish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɫɑn/, /læn/

Interjection

lan

1. Alternative form of ulan

Descendants

• → Swedish: len

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [laːn˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [laːŋ˧˧]
• (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [laːŋ˧˧]

Etymology 1

Compare tràn (“to overflow”).

Verb

lan

1. to spread; to run

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Sino-Vietnamese word from 蘭.

Noun

(classifier cây, bông, hoa) lan

1. orchid

See also

Wab

Noun

lan

1. water

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".

Preposition

lan

1. (South Wales) up

   Synonym: i fyny

   Antonym: i lawr

Adverb

lan

1. (South Wales) up, upwards

   Synonym: i fyny

   Antonym: i lawr

Noun

lan

1. Soft mutation of glan (“shore, bank”).

Derived terms

• lanlwytho (“to upload”)

Mutation

Etymology 2

Noun

lan

1. Soft mutation of llan (“church”).

Mutation

West Coast Bajau

Etymology

From Proto-Sama-Bajaw *lalan, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *zalan, from Proto-Austronesian *zalan.

Noun

lan

1. path
2. trail

Yámana

Noun

lan

1. tongue

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

Noun

lan (classifier boux, Sawndip forms 𭓀 or 𰌮 or 𭓎 or 𬞕, 1957–1982 spelling lan)

1. grandchild; grandson

Derived terms