fán

See also: fan, Fan, FAN, fàn, fân, fān, fǎn, and Appendix:Variations of "fan"

Hungarian

Etymology

fa +‎ -n

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ ˈfaːn]
• Hyphenation: fán
• Rhymes: -aːn

Noun

fán

1. superessive singular of fa

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Irish

Pronunciation

• (Munster, Connacht) IPA^(key): /fˠɑːn̪ˠ/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /fˠæːn̪ˠ/

Etymology 1

From Old Irish fán; see fána (“slope, depression”).

Noun

fán m (genitive singular fáin)

1. Alternative form of fána (“downward slope, declivity; depression, hollow; droop”)
2. straying, wandering, vagrancy
3. turning aside, averting
4. sparsity

Declension

Declension of fán

First declension

Bare forms (no plural of this noun) Case Singular Nominative fán Vocative a fháin Genitive fáin Dative fán

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Nominative an fán Genitive an fháin Dative leis an bhfán don fhán

Derived terms

• fánach (“wandering, straying, vagrant; aimless, purposeless; vain, futile; casual, haphazard; occasional, rare; trivial, insignificant; sparse”, adjective)
• fánaí m (“wanderer, vagrant; casual worker; potterer; odd, chance, casual, person”)
• fánaíocht f (“(act of) wandering, vagrancy; (act of) rambling, roving; hiking; casualness, haphazardness; aimlessness, purposelessness; diminishment, decline; drift”)
• fán-aisteoir m (“busker”)
• ridireacht fáin f (“knight-errantry”)

 

Related terms

• fánaí f (“wandering, vagrancy; casualness, haphazardness; scarceness, rareness”)

Etymology 2

Alternative forms

• fá’n (superseded)
• faoin (standard language)

Contraction

fán

1. (Ulster) Contraction of fá an (“about the”).

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
fán	fhán	bhfán
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• "fán" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• Entries containing “fán” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
• Entries containing “fán” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

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Mandarin

Romanization

fán (Zhuyin ㄈㄢˊ)

1. Pinyin transcription of 凡, 凢
2. Pinyin transcription of 凣
3. Pinyin transcription of 勫
4. Pinyin transcription of 墦
5. Pinyin transcription of 忛
6. Pinyin transcription of 憣
7. Pinyin transcription of 柉
8. Pinyin transcription of 棥, 樊
9. Pinyin transcription of 橎
10. Pinyin transcription of 氾
11. Pinyin transcription of 泚
12. Pinyin transcription of 瀪
13. Pinyin transcription of 瀿
14. Pinyin transcription of 烦, 煩
15. Pinyin transcription of 燔
16. Pinyin transcription of 璠
17. Pinyin transcription of 番
18. Pinyin transcription of 矾, 礬
19. Pinyin transcription of 笯
20. Pinyin transcription of 籒
21. Pinyin transcription of 籵
22. Pinyin transcription of 緐
23. Pinyin transcription of 繁
24. Pinyin transcription of 繙
25. Pinyin transcription of 羳
26. Pinyin transcription of 膰
27. Pinyin transcription of 舧
28. Pinyin transcription of 蕃
29. Pinyin transcription of 薠
30. Pinyin transcription of 藩
31. Pinyin transcription of 蘩
32. Pinyin transcription of 蟓
33. Pinyin transcription of 蠜
34. Pinyin transcription of 袝
35. Pinyin transcription of 襎
36. Pinyin transcription of 觗
37. Pinyin transcription of 蹯
38. 釩, 鐇, 钒: vanadium
39. Pinyin transcription of 颿
40. Pinyin transcription of 鷭

References

• Wenlin Pinyin dictionary

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Noone

Verb

fán

1. fear

References

• R. Blench, Beboid Comparative