duan

See also: Duan, duán, duàn, duān, and duǎn

English

Etymology

From Goidelic (Irish and Scottish).

Noun

duan (plural duans)

  1. A division of a poem corresponding to a canto.
  2. A poem or song.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for duan in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

Anagrams

Albanian

Verb

duan

  1. third-person plural present indicative of dua

Esperanto

Pronunciation
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Adjective

duan

  1. accusative singular of dua

Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *dʰewgʰ-. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Noun

duan m (genitive singular duain, nominative plural duanta)

  1. poem
  2. song

Declension
Declension of duan

First declension

Bare forms:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative duan duanta
Vocative a dhuain a dhuanta
Genitive duain duanta
Dative duan duanta

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an duan na duanta
Genitive an duain na nduanta
Dative leis an duan

don duan

 leis na duanta

Mutation
Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
duan dhuan nduan
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

Mandarin

Romanization

duan

  1. Nonstandard spelling of duān.
  2. Nonstandard spelling of duǎn.
  3. Nonstandard spelling of duàn.

Usage notes
  • English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

Old Frisian

Verb

duān

  1. Alternative spelling of dwā

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *dʰewgʰ-.

Noun

duan m (genitive singular duain, plural duain)

  1. poem
  2. song

Synonyms
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