buan

From Proto-Austronesian *bulaN (compare Cebuano bulan, Chamorro pulan, Fijian vula, Hiligaynon bulan, Ilocano bulan, Indonesian bulan, Javanese bulan, Kapampangan bulan, Malagasy volana, Malay bulan, Sundanese bulan).

buan

1. moon

From Old Irish búan (“lasting, enduring; constant, firm, persevering”), related to buith, verbal noun of at·tá (“to be”).

• (Munster) IPA^(key): /bˠuən̪ˠ/
• (Connacht) IPA^(key): /bˠuənˠ/, /bˠuən̪ˠ/^[1]
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /bˠiːnˠ/, /bˠiːn̪ˠ/; (older) /bˠɯːnˠ/^[2]

buan (genitive singular masculine buain, genitive singular feminine buaine, plural buana, comparative buaine)

1. enduring, permanent
2. steadfast, solid

• buaine
• buan- (“permanent, perpetual; fixed”)
• buanfas

• buanaigh (“perpetuate”, transitive verb)

• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “buan”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “buan”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “buan”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 búan”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

• Buan (Sylt)

From Old Frisian bāne. Cognates include West Frisian beane.

buan f (plural buanen)

1. (Föhr-Amrum) bean

• būwan

From Proto-West Germanic *būan, from Proto-Germanic *būaną. Cognate with Old Frisian būwa, bōwa (West Frisian bouwe), Old Saxon būan (Low German bugen), Old Dutch būwan (Dutch bouwen), Old High German būan (German bauen), Old Norse búa (Swedish bo, Norwegian Nynorsk bu, Faroese búgva), Gothic 𐌱𐌰𐌿𐌰𐌽 (bauan).

• IPA^(key): /ˈbuː.ɑn/

būan

1. to live or dwell
   • Hē būde on Ēastenglum ― He lived in East Anglia. (Anglo-Saxon Chronicle)
2. to inhabit, to occupy
   • Ne mæġ man meduseld būan ― a man may not occupy the mead-bench, (Beowulf)

• ġebūr m

• būwan, pūan

From Proto-West Germanic *būan, from Proto-Germanic *būaną, whence also Old English būan, Old Norse búa.

būan

1. to build

• Middle High German: būwen, biuwen, bouwen
  • Alemannic German: buue, puue
  • German: bauen
    • → Saterland Frisian: baue
  • Luxembourgish: bauen
  • Yiddish: בויען (boyen)

• būwan

From Proto-West Germanic *būan, from Proto-Germanic *būaną, whence also Old English būan, Old Norse búa.

būan

1. to dwell, live
2. to stay

• Middle Low German: bûwen
  • Low German: boen

From Old Irish búan (“lasting, enduring; constant, firm, persevering”).

• IPA^(key): /puən/

buan

1. durable, lasting, long-lasting, long-lived

• seasmhach

• Edward Dwelly (1911) “buan”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎^[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 búan”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

From Proto-Celtic *bīwonos, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷeyh₃- (“to live”).^[1] Cognate with Old Breton buenion, modern Breton buan.

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈbɨː.an/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈbiː.an/
• Rhymes: -ɨːan

buan (feminine singular buan, plural buain, equative buaned, comparative buanach, superlative buanaf)

1. fast, swift, rapid
2. (of a timepiece) fast; ahead of the correct time

• buanedd, buander (“speed”)
• yn fuan (“soon”)
• mor fuan â phosibl (“as soon as possible”)

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “buan”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies