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English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
APA (“amateur press association”) + -n (“of or pertaining to”)
Noun[edit]
apan (plural apans)
- (fandom slang) A member of an amateur press association.
- 1990 August, Guy Lillian, “'Tis the Season”, in Mimosa[1], number 8, page 4:
- The greatest apan of all time lives on a quiet old street rising above Hagerstown, Maryland.
- 1998 October 3, Brown, Rich [Dr Gafia], “Fan Terms (1)”, in rec.arts.sf.fandom[2] (Usenet), retrieved 2018-06-13, message-ID <19981003020622.14181.00000964@ng52.aol.com>:
- Most of the participants in the mundane apas are hobby printers—-and the disdain with which our fandom once viewed Xeroxing of fanzines is but a pale reflection of the way mundane apans have looked upon the mimeo and the ditto as a means of publishing "papers" (as they call their amateur publications).
- 2006 May, Arnie Katz, “The Thin Veneer”, in confuSon[3], volume 1, number 4:
- I immediately began a cutback. I remained an enthusiastic apan, but by the time I gafiated around 1976, I was in only one, FAPA.
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Cebuano[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Short for apanapan.
Pronunciation[edit]
- Hyphenation: a‧pan
Noun[edit]
apan
- a grasshopper
- Synonyms: apan, apanapan
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Finnish[edit]
Verb[edit]
apan
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Hiligaynon[edit]
Noun[edit]
apán
- an adult locust
Malay[edit]
Noun[edit]
apan
Pipil[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From at (“water”) + -pan (“upper surface; place/area; time”, locative).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
apan (plural ajapan)
- river
- Yahquet maltiat tic ne apan ne pipilmet
- The children went to bathe in the river
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Quechua[edit]
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apan
Swedish[edit]
Noun[edit]
apan
Tagakaulu Kalagan[edit]
Noun[edit]
apan
Waray-Waray[edit]
Noun[edit]
apán
Western Huasteca Nahuatl[edit]
Noun[edit]
apan
Yola[edit]
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Etymology[edit]
From Middle English apan, upan, from Old English upon, uppon, uppan (“on, upon, up to, against, after, in addition to”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Preposition[edit]
apan
- upon
- 1867, “THE WEDDEEN O BALLYMORE”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 2, page 94:
- Wee aar lhaung vlealès an pikkès, to waaite apan a breede.
- With their long flails and picks, to wait upon the bride.
- 1867, “THE WEDDEEN O BALLYMORE”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 3, page 94:
- Aar was a muskawn o buthther ee-laaide apan hoat shruaanès,
- There was a great heap of butter laid upon hot scraps,
- 1867, “VERSES IN ANSWER TO THE WEDDEEN O BALLYMORE”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 98:
- [Wee] vaate apan vaate a met-borde was ee-halt.
- [With vat upon vat a meat-borde was held.]
- 1867, “VERSES IN ANSWER TO THE WEDDEEN O BALLYMORE”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 1, page 100:
- Amang wefty jhemes, 'cha jeist ee-rid apan.
- Among cobwebby scraps, I have just alighted on.
- 1867, “ABOUT AN OLD SOW GOING TO BE KILLED”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 2, page 106:
- Ich aam a vat hog it's drue. Aar is ken apan aam.
- I am a fat hog, 'tis true. There is ken upon them.
References[edit]
- Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 23
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