duan

From Irish and Scottish Gaelic duan, from Middle Irish dúan, from Proto-Indo-European *dh₂p-no- (compare Old Armenian տաւն (tawn, “feast, celebration”), Ancient Greek δαπάνη (dapánē, “cost”), Old Norse tafn (“sacrificial animal”) and Latin damnum (“damage”)), from *deh₂p- (“to sacrifice”).

duan (plural duans)

1. A division of a poem, especially an epic poem or a Scottish poem; a canto.
   • 1819–1824, [Lord Byron], Don Juan, London, (please specify |canto=I to XVII):

     Till what is call'd, in Ossian, the fifth Duan

2. A poem or song.

• “duan”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• Danu, Duna, Düna

• IPA^(key): /ˈduan/, [ˈduː.än]

duan

1. third-person plural present indicative/subjunctive of dua

• IPA^(key): [ˈduan]

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• Rhymes: -uan
• Hyphenation: du‧an

duan

1. accusative singular of dua

From Middle Irish dúan, from Proto-Indo-European *dh₂p-no- (compare Old Armenian տաւն (tawn, “feast, celebration”), Ancient Greek δαπάνη (dapánē, “cost”), Old Norse tafn (“sacrificial animal”) and Latin damnum (“damage”)), from *deh₂p- (“to sacrifice”).

• IPA^(key): /d̪ˠuən̪ˠ/, /d̪ˠuənˠ/

duan m (genitive singular duain, nominative plural duanta)

1. poem
2. song

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

duan

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

• Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.

duān

1. Alternative spelling of dwā

From Middle Irish dúan, from Proto-Indo-European *dh₂p-no- (compare Old Armenian տաւն (tawn, “feast, celebration”), Ancient Greek δαπάνη (dapánē, “cost”), Old Norse tafn (“sacrificial animal”) and Latin damnum (“damage”)), from *deh₂p- (“to sacrifice”).

• IPA^(key): /t̪uən/

duan m (genitive singular duain, plural duain)

1. poem
2. song

• dàn, òran