fán

See also: fan, Fan, FAN, fàn, fân, fān, fǎn, and Appendix:Variations of "fan"

Hungarian

Etymology

fa +‎ -n

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ˈfaːn]
  • Hyphenation: fán
  • Rhymes: -aːn

Noun

fán

  1. superessive singular of fa

Irish

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Old Irish fán; see fána (“slope, depression”).

Noun

fán m (genitive singular fáin)

  1. Alternative form of fána (“downward slope, declivity; depression, hollow; droop”)
  2. straying, wandering, vagrancy
  3. turning aside, averting
  4. sparsity
Declension
Declension of fán

First declension

Bare forms (no plural of this noun)

Case Singular
Nominative fán
Vocative a fháin
Genitive fáin
Dative fán

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular
Nominative an fán
Genitive an fháin
Dative leis an bhfán

don fhán

Derived terms
  • fánach (“wandering, straying, vagrant; aimless, purposeless; vain, futile; casual, haphazard; occasional, rare; trivial, insignificant; sparse”, adjective)
  • fánaí m (“wanderer, vagrant; casual worker; potterer; odd, chance, casual, person”)
  • fánaíocht f (“(act of) wandering, vagrancy; (act of) rambling, roving; hiking; casualness, haphazardness; aimlessness, purposelessness; diminishment, decline; drift”)
  • fán-aisteoir m (“busker”)
  • ridireacht fáin f (“knight-errantry”)
  • fánaí f (“wandering, vagrancy; casualness, haphazardness; scarceness, rareness”)

Alternative forms

Contraction

fán

  1. (Ulster) Contraction of fá an (“about the”).

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

Further reading
  • Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “fán”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
  • Entries containing “fán” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
  • Entries containing “fán” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

Mandarin

Alternative forms
  • fan (nonstandard)

Romanization

fán (fan2, Zhuyin ㄈㄢˊ)

  1. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 凡, 凢.
  2. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 凣.
  3. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 勫.
  4. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 墦.
  5. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 忛.
  6. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 憣.
  7. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 柉.
  8. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 棥, 樊.
  9. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 橎.
  10. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 氾.
  11. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 泚.
  12. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 瀪.
  13. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 瀿.
  14. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 烦, 煩.
  15. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 燔.
  16. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 璠.
  17. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 番.
  18. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 矾, 礬.
  19. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 笯.
  20. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 籒.
  21. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 籵.
  22. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 緐.
  23. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 繁.
  24. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 繙.
  25. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 羳.
  26. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 膰.
  27. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 舧.
  28. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 蕃.
  29. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 薠.
  30. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 藩.
  31. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 蘩.
  32. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 蟓.
  33. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 蠜.
  34. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 袝.
  35. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 襎.
  36. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 觗.
  37. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 蹯.
  38. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 釩, 钒.
  39. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 鐇.
  40. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 颿.
  41. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 鷭.

Noone

Verb

fán

  1. fear

References
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