Dane

See also: dane, dañe, Däne, dåne, and dañé

English

Etymology

From Danish Daner ‎(“Danes”), from Old Norse Danir. Displaced native Old English Dene. Both forms ultimately descend from Proto-Germanic *daniz.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /deɪn/
• Rhymes: -eɪn

Noun

Dane ‎(plural Danes)

1. A person from Denmark or of Danish descent.
2. (historical) A member of the Danes, a Germanic tribe inhabiting the Danish islands and parts of southern Sweden.

Synonyms

• (person from Denmark): Danish

Derived terms

• Great Dane

Translations

person from Denmark or of Danish descent

• Arabic: دَانِمَارْكِيّ m ‎(danimārkiyy), دَانِمَرْكِيَّة f ‎(danimarkiyya)
• Armenian: դանիացի (hy) ‎(daniacʿi)
• Basque: daniar
• Belarusian: датча́нін m ‎(datčánin), датча́нка f ‎(datčánka)
• Bulgarian: датчанин (bg) m ‎(datčanin)
• Catalan: danès (ca) m, danesa (ca) f

  Valencian: danés (ca) m, danesa (ca) f

• Cherokee: ᎠᏕᏂ ‎(Adeni)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 丹麦人 (zh) ‎(Dānmài-rén)

• Czech: Dán (cs) m
• Danish: dansker (da) c
• Dutch: Deen (nl) m, Deense (nl) f
• Estonian: taanlane (male and female), taanlanna (female)
• Faroese: dani (fo) m, danskari m
• Finnish: tanskalainen (fi)
• French: Danois (fr) m, Danoise (fr) f
• Georgian: დანიელი ‎(danieli)
• German: Däne (de) m, Dänin (de) f
• Greek: Δανός (el) m ‎(Danós), Δανή f ‎(Daní)
• Greenlandic: Danskeq (kl)
• Hawaiian: Kenemaka
• Hindi: डेनिश ‎(ḍēniś), डेन ‎(ḍēn)
• Hungarian: dán (hu)
• Icelandic: Dani (is) m
• Ido: Dano (io) c, n, Danulo m, Danino f
• Irish: Danar

• Italian: danese (it) m, f
• Japanese: デンマーク人 ‎(Denmāku-jin)
• Khmer: ដាណឺ ‎(daanəɨ)
• Korean: 덴마크 사람 ‎(Denmakeu saram)
• Latvian: dānis m, dāniete f
• Lithuanian: danas (lt) m, danė (lt) f
• Maori: Teina
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: danske (no) m

  Nynorsk: danske (nn) m

• Polish: Duńczyk (pl) m, Dunka (pl) f
• Portuguese: dinamarquês (pt) m, dinamarquesa f, danês m
• Romanian: danez (ro)
• Russian: датча́нин (ru) m ‎(datčánin), датча́нка (ru) f ‎(datčánka)
• Scottish Gaelic: Danmhairgeach m
• Serbo-Croatian: Danac (sh) m, Dankinja f
• Slovak: Dán (sk) m, Dánka (sk) f
• Slovene: Dánec (sl) m, Dánka (sl) f
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: Dan m

• Spanish: danés (es)
• Swahili: Mdeni (sw) sg, Wadeni (sw) pl
• Swedish: dansk (sv) m, danska (sv) f
• Tagalog: Danes (tl)
• Turkish: Dan, Danimarkalı (tr)
• Ukrainian: данці pl ‎(dánci), данка f ‎(dánka), данець m ‎(dáneć)
• Volapük: Danänan (vo)

Proper noun

Dane

1. A surname​ for someone who came from Denmark, also a variant of Dean.
   • 1913 Harry Leon Wilson, Bunker Bean, BiblioBazaar, LLC, 2008, ISBN 0554347148, page 13

     Often he wrote good ones on casual slips and fancied them his; names like Trevellyan or Montressor or Delancey, with musical prefixes; or a good, short, beautiful, but dignified name like "Gordon Dane". He liked that one. It suggested something.

2. A male given name transferred from the surname, or from the ethnic term Dane (like Scott or Norman).
   • 1977 Colleen McCullough, The Thorn Birds, Gramercy Books 1998, ISBN 0517201658, pages 432-433

     "I'm going to call him Dane."

     "What a queer name! Why? Is it an O'Neill family name? I thought you were finished with the O'Neills."

     "It's got nothing to do with Luke. This is his name, no one else's. - - - I called Justine Justine simply because I liked the name, and I'm calling Dane Dane for the same reason."

     "Well, it does have a nice ring to it," Fee admitted.

Anagrams

• Aden
• dean, Dean
• Edna
• Enda

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Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdanɛ/
• Rhymes: -anɛ
• Hyphenation: Da‧ne

Proper noun

Dane

1. vocative singular of Dan