fan
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[edit] English
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- Rhymes: -æn
[edit] Etymology 1
Old English fann, from the Latin vannus (“‘fan for winnowing grain’”).
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fan (plural fans)
- A hand-held device consisting of concertinaed material, or slats of material, gathered together at one end, that may be opened out into the shape of a sector of a circle and waved back and forth in order to move air towards oneself and cool oneself.
- An electrical device for moving air, used for cooling people, machinery, etc.
- Anything resembling a hand-held fan in shape, e.g., a peacock’s tail.
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to fan (third-person singular simple present fans, present participle fanning, simple past and past participle fanned)
- (transitive) To blow air on (something) by means of a fan (hand-held, mechanical or electrical) or otherwise.
- We enjoyed standing at the edge of the cliff, being fanned by the wind.
- (intransitive) (usually to fan out) To move or spread in multiple directions from one point, in the shape of a hand-held fan.
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[edit] Etymology 2
Shortened from fanatic.
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fan (plural fans)
- An admirer or aficionado, especially of a sport or performer; someone who is fond of something or someone; an admirer.
- I am a big fan of libraries.
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[edit] Etymology 3
From the romanization of the Cantonese word 分 (fan)
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fan (plural fans)
- (Hong Kong) a traditional unit of length, legally defined in Hong Kong as 0.1 tsun (0.01 chek) or 0.00371475 metres [1]
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[edit] Cantonese
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fan (分)
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[edit] Finnish
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fan
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Declension of fan (type risti)
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[edit] Galician
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fan
- third-person plural present indicative of facer.
[edit] Hungarian
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- IPA: /ˈfɒn/
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fan (plural fanok)
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Today it is used only in compounds.
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- fan at A Pallas Nagy Lexikona, Pallas Irodalmi és Nyomdai Rt., Budapest, 1897
- László Országh, Hungarian-English Dictionary, Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest, 1977
[edit] Irish
[edit] Pronunciation
- IPA: [fˠanˠ]
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fan
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- Finite forms
| Analytic | 1st sing. | 2d sing. | 3d sing. | Autonomous | |
| 1st pl. | 2d pl. | 3d pl. | |||
| Present | fanann | fanaim | fanair* | fantar | |
| fanaimid | fanaid* | ||||
| Imperfect | d'fhanadh | d'fhanainn | d'fhantá | d'fhantaí | |
| d'fhanaimis | d'fhanaidís | ||||
| Past | d'fhan | d'fhanas* | d'fhanais* | fanadh | |
| d'fhanamar | d'fhanabhar* | d'fhanadar* | |||
| Future | fanfaidh | fanfad* | fanfair* | fanfar | |
| fanfaimid; fanfam* |
fanfaid* | ||||
| Conditional | d'fhanfadh | d'fhanfainn | d'fhanfá | d'fhanfaí | |
| d'fhanfaimis | d'fhanfaidís | ||||
| Present subjunctive | fana | fanad* | fanair* | fantar | |
| fanaimid | fanaid* | ||||
| Past subjunctive | fanadh | fanainn | fantá | fantaí | |
| fanaimis | fanaidís | ||||
| Imperative | fanadh | fanaim | fan | fantar | |
| fanaimis | fanaigí | fanaidís | |||
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| Irish mutation | |||
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| fan | fhan | bhfan | |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
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[edit] Italian
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fan m. and f. (plural fans)
- fan (admirer or follower)
[edit] Mandarin
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fan (Pinyin fàn, traditional 飯, simplified 饭)
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fan (Pinyin fan3, traditional and simplified 反)
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fan
- A transliteration of any of a number of Chinese characters properly represented as having one of four tones, fān, fán, fǎn, or fàn.
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English transcriptions of Chinese speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Chinese language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.
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fan
- betel leaf
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fan, present participle fantail, fantainn
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fan m. and f. (plural fans)
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[edit] Swedish
[edit] Etymology 1
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fan
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fan
- damn (referring to the devil)
- Fan! Jag glömde nycklarna.
- "Damn! I forgot my keys."
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fan
- fan (admirer)
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[edit] Uzbek
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fan
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[edit] Welsh
[edit] Etymology 1
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fan f.
- van.
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| Welsh mutation | |||
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| radical | soft | nasal | aspirate |
| fan | unchanged | unchanged | unchanged |
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fan
- Soft mutation form of man
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| Welsh mutation | |||
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| radical | soft | nasal | aspirate |
| man | fan | unchanged | unchanged |
[edit] West Frisian
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[edit] Pronunciation
- IPA: /fɔn/
[edit] Preposition
fan