lan

lan

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Laru.

• Wiktionary's coverage of Laru terms

lan

1. Romanization of ᬮᬦ᭄

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• IPA^(key): /lan/ [lãn]
• Rhymes: -an
• Hyphenation: lan

lan inan

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

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

• “lan”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy], Euskaltzaindia
• “lan”, in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], Euskaltzaindia, 1987–2005

• lana (Lagarteiru)

From Old Galician-Portuguese lãa, from Latin lāna.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlan/
• Rhymes: -an
• Syllabification: lan

lan f (plural lanis)

1. (Mañegu, Valverdeñu) wool

• Valeš, Miroslav (2021) Diccionariu de A Fala: lagarteiru, mañegu, valverdeñu (web)‎^[1], 2nd edition, Minde, Portugal: CIDLeS, published 2022, →ISBN

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, Ewe lã.

• IPA^(key): /lã̀/

làn (plural làn lɛ́ or làn lẹ́)

1. meat

• IPA^(key): /lã/

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. Romanization of ꦭꦤ꧀

lan

1. tongue
2. rays of the Sun on water
3. spearpoint

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 inan (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.

• 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.

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

Probably from earlier len, lyan (“other, different”), inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *lian (“to change appearance”).

lan

1. and

• > Javanese: ꦭꦤ꧀ (lan) (inherited)
• → Balinese: ᬮᬦ᭄ (lan)

• "lan" in P.J. Zoetmulder with the collaboration of S.O. Robson, Old Javanese-English Dictionary. 's-Gravenhage: M. Nijhoff, 1982.

• (Masovia):
  • (Near Masovian) IPA^(key): /ˈlan/

lan m inan

1. (Near Masovian) Alternative form of len

• Zygmunt Wasilewski (1889) “lan”, in Jagodne: wieś w powiecie łukowskim, gminie Dąbie: zarys etnograficzny (in Polish), Warsaw: M. Arct, page 242

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

lan n (plural lanuri)

1. field (arable land)

   Synonym: ogor

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *lьnъ.

lȁn m (Cyrillic spelling ла̏н)

1. flax

• lànen

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

lan

1. wool

• IPA^(key): /ɫɑn/, [ˈɫ̟ɑn̟]

lan

1. Alternative form of ulan

• → Swedish: len

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [laːn˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [laːŋ˧˧]
• (Saigon) 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

   Synonym: i fyny

   Antonym: i lawr

   Sa i'n mynd lan yr Wyddfa heb esgidiau addas.

   I'm not going up Snowdon without appropriate footwear.

lan

1. (South Wales) up, upwards

   Synonym: i fyny

   Antonym: i lawr

   Sa i'n mynd lan gyda ti yn y fflipfflops yna.

   I'm not going up with you in those flipflops.

lan

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

• lan a lawr (“up and down”)
• lan lofft (“upstairs”)
• 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

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