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

Noun

fán

1. superessive singular of fa

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Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fˠɑːn̪ˠ/
• IPA^(key): /fˠæːn̪ˠ/

Etymology 1

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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

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• fá’n (superseded)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

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “fán”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “fán”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “fán”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024

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Mandarin

Romanization

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References

• Wenlin Pinyin dictionary

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Verb

fán

1. fear

References

• R. Blench, Beboid Comparative