lan

lan

1. and

lan inan

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

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

Cognates include Gun làn, Saxwe Gbe olàn, Adja elan

• IPA^(key): /lã̀/

làn (plural làn lɛ́)

1. meat

• òlàn

Cognates include Fon làn, Saxwe Gbe olàn, Adja elan

• IPA^(key): /lã̀/

làn (plural làn lɛ́ or làn lẹ́)

1. meat

lan

1. the (definite article)

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.

• a
• an
• la
• nan
• yo
• yon

lan

1. and

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).

• IPA^(key): /lan/

lan m (diminutive lank)

1. flax (“Linum usitatissimum”)

• 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

lan

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

• 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.

lan

1. Alternative spelling of lán

From English LAN, acronym of local area network.

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

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

• lana, lane (verb)

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

• nal

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

lan n (plural lanuri)

1. field (arable land)

• ogor

From Proto-Slavic *lьnъ.

lȁn m (Cyrillic spelling ла̏н)

1. flax

• lànen

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

lan

1. wool

• IPA^(key): /ɫɑn/, /læn/

lan

1. Alternative form of ulan

• → Swedish: len

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

Compare tràn (“to overflow”).

lan

1. to spread; to run

Sino-Vietnamese word from 蘭.

(classifier cây, bông, hoa) lan

1. orchid

lan

1. water

• John Carter, Katie Carter, John Grummitt, Bonnie MacKenzie, Janell Masters, A Sociolinguistic Survey of the Mur Village Vernaculars (2012)

• IPA^(key): /lan/
• Rhymes: -an

The sense of "up, upwards" comes from an abbreviation of the phrase i'r lan "to the shore, ashore; upwards".

lan

1. (South Wales) up

   Sa i'n mynd lan yr Wyddfa ei hunan. ― I'm not going up Snowdon itself.

   Synonym: i fyny

   Antonym: i lawr

lan

1. (South Wales) up, upwards

   Sa i'n mynd lan gyda ti. ― I'm not going up with you.

   Synonym: i fyny

   Antonym: i lawr

lan

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

• lanlwytho (“to upload”)

lan

1. Soft mutation of llan (“church”).

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

lan

1. path
2. trail

From Old Norse *lǫ́n, from Proto-Germanic *laihwną, from Proto-Indo-European *leykʷ-.

• IPA^(key): /loːɳ/, /lɑːɳ/, /loːn/

lan n

1. A loan.
2. A confused, lost person.

• laan
• loon

lan n

1. Alternative spelling of land

lan

1. tongue

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.

• (Standard Zhuang) IPA^(key): /laːn˨˦/
• Tone numbers: lan¹
• Hyphenation: lan

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

1. grandchild; grandson