nan

From Nan, pet form of the formerly very common female given names Anne and Agnes. As a nursemaid and grandmother, a clipping of earlier nana, from nanny under the probable influence of mama, also from Nan. Compare Mary.

• IPA^(key): /næn/

• Audio (US)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -æn

nan (plural nans)

1. (obsolete) Synonym of maid: a servant girl. [1599]
2. (slang, obsolete) Synonym of nancy: an effeminate male homosexual. [1670]
3. (UK, endearing) Synonym of nursemaid. [1940]
4. (Britain, Ireland, Australia, Canada, endearing) Synonym of grandmother. [1955]

   We had my nan over for Christmas dinner.

See at naan.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /næn/, /nɑːn/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /næn/, /nɑn/

nan (plural nans)

1. Alternative spelling of naan

• ANN, Ann, Ann., ann, ann.

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ŋajan.

nan

1. name (word or phrase indicating a particular person, place, class or thing)

• 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.

• nang

• IPA^(key): /nan/

nan

1. (Sorsogon) and

   Synonyms: asin, saka, buda, at, sagkod, tapos

From Latin nānus, from Ancient Greek νᾶνος (nânos).

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈnan/

nan (feminine nana, masculine plural nans, feminine plural nanes)

1. (attributive) dwarf

• planeta nan

nan m (plural nans, feminine nana)

1. (mythology) dwarf (a member of a race from folklore)
2. dwarf (a person of short stature, usually as the result of a genetic condition)
3. (folklore) in Catalan celebrations, someone who wears a large papier-mâché head

• nanisme

• “nan” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “nan”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
• “nan” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “nan” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

• (Savoyard dialect) IPA^(key): /ˈnɑ/
• (Bressan dialect) IPA^(key): /ˈnɔ̃/

nan

1. no

nan

1. no

• ouè

• IPA^(key): /nɑ̃/

• Audio

  (file)

nan

1. (informal) nah, nope

   Synonym: (standard French) non

nan

1. marks the preterite tense

• Oumar Bah, Dictionnaire Pular-Français, Avec un index français-pular, Webonary.org, SIL International, 2014.

nan

1. the (definite article)

This word is used only when the preceding word is singular and ends with a nasal consonant.

• a
• an
• la
• lan
• yo
• yon

nan

1. in
   • 2019 March 19, “Rankont ann Itali ant Anvwaye Espesyal Etazini ak Larisi sou Kriz Venezuela a”, in Lavwadlamerik‎:

     Anvwaye espesyal Etazini pou Venezuela, Elliot Abrams, ak vis-minis afè etranjè Larisi, Sergei Ryabkov, ap fè reyinyon nan vil Wòm ann Itali pou yo pale sou “sityasyon Venezuela kap agrave.”

     American Special Envoy for Venezuela Elliot Abrams and Russian Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergei Ryabkov are having a meeting in the city of Rome, Italy to speak about "the worsening situation in Venezuela."

nan

1. Rōmaji transcription of なん

Akin to Italian nano, ultimately from Greek νᾶνος.

nan

1. dwarf

• IPA^(key): /nan/

nan m (diminutive nancycko)

1. father

• maś (“mother”)
• syn (“son”)
• źowka (“daughter”)

• Muka, Arnošt (1921, 1928), “nan”, in Słownik dolnoserbskeje rěcy a jeje narěcow (in German), St. Petersburg, Prague: ОРЯС РАН, ČAVU; Reprinted Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag, 2008
• Starosta, Manfred (1999), “nan”, in Dolnoserbsko-nimski słownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch (in German), Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag

nan

1. mother

• Joshua Arlo, Indigenous language almost extinct, 2 September 2016, LoopPNG

From Proto-Algonquian *nya·θanwi.

• IPA^(key): /ˈnan/, [ˈnan˧˦]

nan (initial root nan-)

1. five (in counting)

• Passamaquoddy-Maliseet language portal
• LeSourd, Philip S. (1993) Accent and Syllable Structure in Passamaquoddy, New York: Garland Publishing

nan

1. Nonstandard spelling of nān.
2. Nonstandard spelling of nán.
3. Nonstandard spelling of nǎn.
4. Nonstandard spelling of nàn.

• 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.

Akin to Persian نان‎ (nān), See there for more.

• IPA^(key): /nɑːn/

nan m

1. bread
2. food

   Synonym: xwarin

nan

1. to put in, to set, to place
2. to fuck, to copulate, to have sex with

From Proto-West Germanic *nain, from Proto-Germanic *nainaz, equivalent to ne (“not”) +‎ ān (“one”).

• IPA^(key): /nɑːn/

nān

1. no; not a, not one, not any

   nān mann

   no one (literally "no person")

   nān þing

   nothing

   • c. 995, Ælfric, Extracts on Grammar in English

     Þæt word willan næfþ nān bebēodendlīċ, for þon þe sē willa sċeal bēon ǣfre frī.

     The word 'to want' has no imperative, because the will must always be free.

nān

1. no one, nobody; none

   Ūre nān ne mæġ tōweardnesse forecweðan.

   None of us can predict the future.

   • late 10th century, Ælfric, "The Nativity of St. Clement the Martyr"

     Þā cwelleras þā ġeopenodon þæt cweartern and nānne ne ġemētton.

     The executioners then opened the prison and found no one.

• Middle English: noon
  • English: none
  • Scots: nane

• IPA^(key): /ˈnaːn/

nān

1. Alternative form of nēn

nān

1. Alternative form of nēn

• Bremmer, Rolf H. (2009) An Introduction to Old Frisian: History, Grammar, Reader, Glossary, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN

The third person plural pronoun nan (“they”) and the overall plural noun suffix -nan are unique for Papiamentu and cannot be found in any other language. According to Clements and Parkvall the pronoun nan and it's derived suffix -nan were introduced into the language just in the 1700s because of the grown need for a plural marking. Apparently before the introduction the need for a plural marking was not felt. Just like in other South American languages the suffix originated in the form "kas-nan" literally "house-they" (ac Lenz).

Compare the Curripaco Arawak suffix -na and the Dutch suffix -en.

Searches are being undertaken to find the African connections with the words "iran", "ene", "na", "nan", "inen" and "ane" in the languages Bini, Kwa, Anabonese, Bantu, Kimbundu, Angolar, Fa d'Ambu, Edo and Saotome in the African countries of Sao Tomé, Angola, Equatorial Guinea and Nigeria (see Bartens and Schuchardt). All very improbably.

nan

1. they, third person plural
2. their

• -nan

From Latin nanus.

nan m (plural nani)

1. dwarf

From Old Irish dïa n- (“if, when”) with irregular change of initial d- to n-. Cognate with Irish dá (“if”).

nan

1. if (subjunctive)

   Nan robh mi beartach, b'urrainn dhomh taigh mór a cheannach.

   If I were rich, I could buy a mansion.

2. whether (subjunctive)

   Bhiodh gràdh agam air fhathast nan robh e beartach neo bochd.

   I would still love him whether he were rich or poor.

• Before words beginning with b, f, m or p, the form nam is used instead.
• Only used in the conditional tense, otherwise ma is used.
• The negative form is mura.

• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “1 día n-”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• MacBain, Alexander; Mackay, Eneas (1911), “na’n (na’m)”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language, Stirling, →ISBN, page 260

Univerbation of an (“in”) +‎ an (“their”).

nan (+ dative, triggers eclipsis)

1. in their

   Bha iad nan cadal. ― They were sleeping. (literally, “They were in their sleep.”)

nan

1. inflection of an (“the”):
   1. genitive plural preceding a consonant (excluding b-, f-, m-, p-)
   2. genitive plural preceding a vowel

From Ottoman Turkish نان‎ (nan), from Persian نان‎ (nân).

nan (definite accusative nanı, plural nanlar) (archaic)

1. bread
2. food

• Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013) The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN

nan m

1. father

• “nan” in Soblex

According to Ferlus (2009), from *t-rn-aːɲ, with nominalizer -rn- infixed into Proto-Vietic *taːɲ (whence đan (“to weave”)).

Formationally indentical but independently developed are Khmu [Rook] tʰrnaːɲ ("material used for weaving") (Suwilai, 2002) and Proto-West-Bahnaric *trnaːɲ ("thread"), whence Nyaheun nnaːɲ ("thread").

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

(classifier sợi) nan

1. bamboo tape (for basketwork); bamboo slat (of a paper fan)

nan

1. (interrogative) how

• naka

• non
• nun

Akin to Persian نان‎ (nān, “bread”), see there for more.

• IPA^(key): [ˈnɑn]
• Hyphenation: nan

nan m

1. bread