fan

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English [edit]

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Pronunciation [edit]

Etymology 1 [edit]

Handheld fans
An electrical fan
A Ceiling fan

From Middle English, from Old English fann (“a winnowing, fan”), from Latin vannus (“fan for winnowing grain”), from Proto-Indo-European *wē- (“to thresh, winnow”). Cognate with Dutch wan (“fan”), German Wanne, Swedish vanna (“a fan for winnowing”), Old English windwian (“to fan, winnow”). More at winnow.

Noun [edit]

fan (plural fans)

  1. 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.
  2. An electrical device for moving air, used for cooling people, machinery, etc.
  3. Anything resembling a hand-held fan in shape, e.g., a peacock’s tail.
Derived terms [edit]
Translations [edit]
hand-held device
electrical device
anything resembling a hand-held fan
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Verb [edit]

fan (third-person singular simple present fans, present participle fanning, simple past and past participle fanned)

  1. (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..
  2. (transitive) To slap (a behind, especially).
  3. (intransitive, usually to fan out) To move or spread in multiple directions from one point, in the shape of a hand-held fan.
Derived terms [edit]
Translations [edit]
blow air on by means of a fan
to slap (a behind)
move or spread in multiple directions from one point
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Etymology 2 [edit]

Football/soccer fans in Argentina.

Shortened from fanatic.

Noun [edit]

fan (plural fans)

  1. 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.
Translations [edit]
admirer

Anagrams [edit]

Cantonese [edit]

Noun [edit]

fan (分)

  1. a traditional unit of length, legally defined as 1/10th of a tsun (1/100 of a chek) in Hong Kong

See also [edit]

Catalan [edit]

Pronunciation [edit]

Verb [edit]

fan

  1. Third-person plural present indicative form of fer.

Finnish [edit]

Noun [edit]

fan

  1. fan, admirer, aficionado

Declension [edit]

Declension of fan (type risti)
singular plural
nominative fan fanit
genitive fanin fanien
partitive fania faneja
accusative fan
fanin		 fanit
inessive fanissa faneissa
elative fanista faneista
illative faniin faneihin
adessive fanilla faneilla
ablative fanilta faneilta
allative fanille faneille
essive fanina faneina
translative faniksi faneiksi
instructive – fanein
abessive fanitta faneitta
comitative – faneineen

Synonyms [edit]

Galician [edit]

Verb [edit]

fan

  1. third-person plural present indicative of facer

Hungarian [edit]

Pronunciation [edit]

  • IPA: /ˈfɒn/

Noun [edit]

fan (plural fanok)

  1. (obsolete) pubis

Usage notes [edit]

Today it is used only in compounds.

Derived terms [edit]

References [edit]

  • fan at A Pallas Nagy Lexikona, Pallas Irodalmi és Nyomdai Rt., Budapest, 1897
  • László Országh, Hungarian-English Dictionary, Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest, 1977

Irish [edit]

Etymology [edit]

From Old Irish anaid, fanaid (“stays, remains, abides”).

Pronunciation [edit]

  • IPA: [fˠanˠ]

Verb [edit]

fan (present analytic fanann, future analytic fanfaidh, verbal noun fanacht, past participle fanta)

  1. to wait
  2. to stay

Conjugation [edit]

First Conjugation (A)
singular plural autonomous
first second third first second third
indicative present fanaim fanann tú;
fanair†		 fanann sé, sí fanaimid fanann sibh fanann siad;
fanaid†		 fantar
past d'fhan mé;
d'fhanas†		 d'fhan tú;
d'fhanais†		 d'fhan sé, sí d'fhanamar d'fhan sibh;
d'fhanabhair†		 d'fhan siad;
d'fhanadar†		 fanadh
future fanfaidh mé;
fanfad†		 fanfaidh tú;
fanfair†		 fanfaidh sé, sí fanfaimid;
fanfam†		 fanfaidh sibh fanfaidh siad;
fanfaid†		 fanfar
past habitual d'fhanainn d'fhantá d'fhanadh sé, sí d'fhanaimis d'fhanadh sibh d'fhanaidís d'fhantaí
imperative fanaim fan fanadh sé, sí fanaimis fanaigí fanaidís fantar
conditional d'fhanfainn d'fhanfá d'fhanfadh sé, sí d'fhanfaimis d'fhanfadh sibh d'fhanfaidís d'fhanfaí
subjunctive present fana mé;
fanad†		 fana tú;
fanair†		 fana sé, sí fanaimid fana sibh fana siad;
fanaid†		 fantar
past fanainn fantá fanadh sé, sí fanaimis fanadh sibh fanaidís fantaí
verbal noun fanacht
past participle fanta

† Dialect form

Mutation [edit]

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
fan fhan bhfan
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Italian [edit]

Etymology [edit]

English

Noun [edit]

fan mf (plural fans)

  1. fan (admirer or follower)

Lojban [edit]

Rafsi [edit]

fan

  1. rafsi of falnu.

Mandarin [edit]

Romanization [edit]

fan

  1. Nonstandard spelling of fān.
  2. Nonstandard spelling of fán.
  3. Nonstandard spelling of fǎn.
  4. Nonstandard spelling of fàn.

Usage notes [edit]

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.

Mopán [edit]

Noun [edit]

fan

  1. language, speech

Occitan [edit]

Verb [edit]

fan

  1. third-person plural present indicative of faire

Old Dutch [edit]

Preposition [edit]

fan

  1. off, from

Descendants [edit]

  • Middle Dutch: van

Old Saxon [edit]

Alternative forms [edit]

Etymology [edit]

Proto-Germanic *afana, whence also Old High German fon.

Preposition [edit]

fon

  1. from

Rohingya [edit]

Noun [edit]

fan

  1. betel leaf

Scottish Gaelic [edit]

Verb [edit]

fan (verbal noun fantail or fantainn)

  1. stay, remain
  2. wait

Synonyms [edit]

Spanish [edit]

Noun [edit]

fan m and f (plural fans)

  1. fan

Synonyms [edit]

Swedish [edit]

Etymology 1 [edit]

Noun [edit]

fan c

  1. the devil, Satan
    må fan ta dig
    may the devil take you
    du var mig en jobbig fan
    you're one tricky little devil

Interjection [edit]

fan

  1. damn (referring to the devil)
    Fan! Jag glömde nycklarna.
    Damn! I forgot my keys.

See also [edit]

Etymology 2 [edit]

Noun [edit]

fan n and c

  1. fan (admirer)
    jag är ett stort fan av saffransbullar
    I'm a huge fan of saffron buns
Declension [edit]
Declension of fan
singular plural
Neuter indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative fan fanet fans fansen
genitive fans fanets fans fansens

Etymology 3 [edit]

Noun [edit]

fan n

  1. vane, web (part of the anatomy of a bird's feather)
Declension [edit]
Declension of fan
singular plural
Neuter indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative fan fanet fan fanen
genitive fans fanets fans fanens

Uzbek [edit]

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Etymology [edit]

From Arabic فن (fann)

Noun [edit]

fan (plural fanlar)

  1. science

Synonyms [edit]

Welsh [edit]

Etymology 1 [edit]

Noun [edit]

fan f (plural faniau) 

  1. a van.
Mutation [edit]
Welsh mutation
radical soft nasal aspirate
fan unchanged unchanged unchanged

Etymology 2 [edit]

Noun [edit]

fan

  1. Soft mutation form of man
Mutation [edit]
Welsh mutation
radical soft nasal aspirate
man fan unchanged unchanged

West Frisian [edit]

Etymology [edit]

From Middle Frisian fen; compare Dutch van, German von

Pronunciation [edit]

Preposition [edit]

fan

  1. from
  2. of
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