clan

See also: Clan and član

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Irish clann (“offspring, children of the family”) and Scottish Gaelic clann, both from Old Irish cland, borrowed from Old Welsh plant, itself borrowed from Latin planta (“shoot, offspring”). Doublet of plant.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /klæn/

• Audio (US)

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• Homophone: Klan
• Rhymes: -æn

Noun

clan (plural clans)

1. (anthropology) A group of people all descended from a common ancestor, in fact or belief, especially when the exact genealogies are not known.

   Coordinate term: lineage

   Hyponym: descent group

2. A traditional social group of families in the Scottish Highlands having a common hereditary chieftain
3. Any group defined by family ties with some sort of political unity.
   • 1923, P.G. Wodehouse, The Inimitable Jeeves:

     As a rule, you see, I'm not lugged into Family Rows. On the occasions when Aunt is calling to Aunt like mastodons bellowing across primeval swamps and Uncle James's letter about Cousin Mabel's peculiar behaviour is being shot round the family circle... the clan has a tendency to ignore me.

4. (video games) A group of players who habitually play on the same team in multiplayer games.
5. A badger colony.

Derived terms

• clannish
• matriclan
• patriclan

Descendants

• → Catalan: clan
• → Dutch: clan
• → French: clan
• → Galician: clan
• → German: Clan
• → Italian: clan
• → Portuguese: clan, clã
• → Spanish: clan

Translations

group having common ancestor

• Albanian: fis (sq), farefis (sq), farë (sq)
• Armenian: ցեղ (hy) (cʿeł), տոհմ (hy) (tohm)

  Old Armenian: ցեղ (cʿeł), տոհմ (tohm), զարմ (zarm)

• Avestan: 𐬬𐬍𐬯‎ (vīs)
• Bashkir: ырыу (ïrïw)
• Basque: jas
• Berber:

  Tashelhit: afus m

• Bulgarian: клан (bg) m (klan)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 家族 (zh) (jiāzú), 一族 (zh) (yīzú)

• Czech: klan m, rod (cs) m
• Dutch: clan (nl) m, stam (nl) m, sibbe (nl) f
• Esperanto: klano
• Finnish: klaani (fi)
• Galician: clan m
• Georgian: კლანი (ḳlani)
• German: Clan (de) m, Sippe (de) f
• Hausa: zuriya (ha)
• Hebrew: חמולה‎ (he) f (khamúla)
• Hindi: खानदान (hi) (khāndān)
• Hungarian: klán (hu)
• Ido: klano (io)
• Indonesian: klan (id)
• Irish: clann (ga)
• Italian: clan (it) m

• Japanese: 一門 (いちもん, ichimon), 一族 (ja) (いちぞく, ichizoku), 一家 (いっか, ikka), クラン (kuran)
• Maori: hapū, mātāwaka, matawaka
• Navajo: dóoneʼé
• Ngarrindjeri: laklinyeri
• Ngazidja Comorian: mɓa 9 or 10
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: klan m

  Nynorsk: klan m

• Old Persian: 𐎻𐎰 (vi-θ /viθ/)
• Pashto: خېل‎ (ps) m (xel)
• Persian: ویس‎ (vis), طایفه‎ (fa) (tāyefe)
• Polish: klan (pl) m
• Portuguese: clã (pt) m
• Russian: клан (ru) m (klan), род (ru) m (rod)
• Scottish Gaelic: clann f, cinneadh m
• Serbo-Croatian: zadruga (sh) f, rod (sh) m, svojta (sh) f, bratstvo (sh) n
• Spanish: clan (es) m
• Swedish: klan (sv) c, stam (sv) c
• Tagalog: angkan
• Tocharian B: kottär
• Tok Pisin: pisin (tpi)
• Ugaritic: 𐎜𐎎𐎚 (ủmt)
• Ukrainian: рід m (rid)
• Volapük: dafamül
• Welsh: clan m, claniau m pl

group of relatives with some degree of political organization

• Danish: klan c

group of players who habitually play on the same team in multiplayer games

• Czech: klan m
• Marathi: क्लॅन f (klĕn)

• Polish: klan (pl) m
• Russian: клан (ru) m (klan)

Anagrams

• Lanc, NLCA, NaCl

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Catalan

Noun

clan m (plural clans)

1. clan

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English clan, from Scottish Gaelic clann (“progeny, race”), from Old Irish cland, from Old Welsh plant, from Latin planta (“shoot, offspring”). As such, it is a doublet of plant (“plant, flora”).

Pronunciation

• (Netherlands) IPA^(key): /klɛn/

• Audio

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• Hyphenation: clan
• Rhymes: -ɛn

Noun

clan m (plural clans, diminutive clannetje n)

1. clan, kin group, esp. in relation to the Scottish Highlands or Scotland in general
2. (gaming) a group of gamers playing on the same team, a clan

Descendants

• Afrikaans: clan
• → Indonesian: klan

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from English clan, Scottish Gaelic clann, ultimately from Latin planta, and therefore a doublet of plante.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /klɑ̃/

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

clan m (plural clans)

1. clan

Further reading

• “clan” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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Galician

Noun

clan m (plural clans)

1. clan

Synonyms

• (clan): tribo

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Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English clan.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈklan/, /ˈklɛn/

Noun

clan m (invariable)

1. clan
2. team
3. gang

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Portuguese

Noun

clan m (plural clans)

1. Alternative spelling of clã

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Romanian

Etymology

From French clan.

Noun

clan n (plural clanuri)

1. clan

Declension

Declension of clan

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) clan	clanul	(niște) clanuri	clanurile
genitive/dative	(unui) clan	clanului	(unor) clanuri	clanurilor
vocative	clanule		clanurilor

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Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English clan. Doublet of planta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈklan/, [ˈklãn]

Noun

clan m (plural clanes)

1. clan

Further reading

• “clan” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.