Wahn

See also: wahn and wähn

English

Proper noun

Wahn

1. A district of Porz borough, in south-east Cologne, Germany.

German

Etymology

From Middle High German and Old High German wān, from Proto-West Germanic *wāni. Not related to Wahnsinn.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vaːn/, [vaːn], [ʋaːn]

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -aːn
• Homophones: waren (some speakers), wahren, Waren (chiefly in casual speech)

Noun

Wahn m (strong, genitive Wahnes or Wahns, plural Wahne)

1. delusion, illusion, (vain) hope (very strong but ultimately misguided or fantastical beliefs or motivations)
   1. (especially in compounds) obsession, craze
   2. (psychiatry) delusion, false interpretation of reality (perception not founded in reality)

Declension

Declension of Wahn [masculine, strong]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	der	Wahn	die	Wahne
genitive	eines	des	Wahnes, Wahns	der	Wahne
dative	einem	dem	Wahn, Wahne1	den	Wahnen
accusative	einen	den	Wahn	die	Wahne

¹Now rare, see notes.

Derived terms

• wahnhaft

compound nouns

• Dermatozoenwahn
• Fieberwahn
• Geisteswahn
• Genderwahn
• Größenwahn
• Hexenwahn
• Jugendwahn
• Kontrollwahn
• Liebeswahn
• Männlichkeitswahn
• Massenwahn
• Ordnungswahn
• Rassenwahn
• Rinderwahn
• Sinneswahn
• Verfolgungswahn
• Wahneinfall
• Wahnidee
• Wahnvorstellung
• Weiblichkeitswahn
• Wirklichkeitswahn

Related terms

• wähnen

Further reading

• “Wahn”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎^[1] (in German)
• “Wahn” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “Wahn” in Duden online