bayan

English

Etymology 1

From Russian бая́н (baján); named after the 11th-century bard Boyan.

Noun

Russian bayan

bayan (plural bayans)

1. A type of chromatic button accordion developed in Russia in the early 20th century.

Translations

a Russian accordion

• Belarusian: бая́н m (baján)
• Bulgarian: бая́н m (baján)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 手風琴／手风琴 (zh) (shǒufēngqín), 手风琴 (zh) (shǒufēngqín) (accordion), 鍵鈕式手風琴／键钮式手风琴, 键钮式手风琴 (jiàn niǔ shì shǒufēngqín)

• Estonian: bajaan
• Finnish: bajan-harmonikka, bajan (fi)
• French: bayan (fr) m
• Georgian: ბაიანი (baiani)
• German: Bajan n
• Italian: bayan m
• Japanese: バヤン (bayan)
• Kazakh: баян (baän)
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• Korean: 바얀 (bayan)
• Kyrgyz: баян (ky) (bayan)
• Latvian: bajāns m
• Lithuanian: bajanas
• Macedonian: баја́н m (baján)
• Polish: bajan (pl) m
• Russian: бая́н (ru) m (baján)
• Serbo-Croatian: бајан m, bajan (sh) m
• Tajik: баян (tg) (bayan)
• Ukrainian: бая́н (uk) m (baján)
• Uzbek: bayan (uz)
• Vietnamese: đàn baian

See also

• garmon

Etymology 2

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Arabic بَيَان (bayān)

Noun

bayan (plural bayans)

1. (Islam) A lecture.

Anagrams

• banya

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Kavalan

Noun

bayan

1. old leaves

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Tagalog

Noun

bayan

1. town; municipality
2. nation; country
3. motherland; native land

Derived terms

• kababayan (“fellow countrymen”)