fasan

See also: Fasan, fașân, faṣãn, and fāsàn

Danish

Etymology

From Ancient Greek φασιανός (phasianós).

Noun

fasan c (singular definite fasanen, plural indefinite fasaner)

1. pheasant

Declension

Declension of fasan

common gender	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	fasan	fasanen	fasaner	fasanerne
genitive	fasans	fasanens	fasaners	fasanernes

References

• “fasan” in Den Danske Ordbog

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Ancient Greek φασιανός (phasianós).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fasaːn/, [fɑ.ˈsaːn]

Noun

fasan m (definite singular fasanen, indefinite plural fasaner, definite plural fasanene)

1. a pheasant

References

• “fasan” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Ancient Greek φασιανός (phasianós).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fasaːn/, [fɑ.ˈsaːn]

Noun

fasan m (definite singular fasanen, indefinite plural fasanar, definite plural fasanane)

1. a pheasant

References

• “fasan” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Piedmontese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /faˈzaŋ/

Noun

fasan m

1. pheasant

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

Borrowed from English fashion

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfas̪an/

Noun

fasan m (genitive singular fasain, plural fasanan)

1. fashion

   A bheil gorm san fhasan no às an fhasan am bliadhna? ― Is blue in fashion or out of fashion this year?

Derived terms

• fasanta
• seann-fhasanta

Further reading

• MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “fasan”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language‎^[1], Stirling, →ISBN

Swedish

fasantupp [male pheasant (pheasant cock)]

fasanhöna [female pheasant (pheasant hen)]

Etymology 1

Spelled phasshan by Risingh in 1671, pluralized as phasanter by Asteropherus in 1609. Borrowed from German Fasan, from Latin phāsiānus, from Ancient Greek φασιανός (ὄρνις) (phasianós (órnis), “bird of the river Φᾶσις (Phâsis)”).

Noun

fasan c

1. pheasant (a bird of family Phasianidae, often hunted for food)

Declension

Declension of fasan

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	fasan	fasans
	definite	fasanen	fasanens
plural	indefinite	fasaner	fasaners
	definite	fasanerna	fasanernas

Derived terms

• diamantfasan
• fasanfjäder
• fasangård
• fasanhöna
• fasankyckling
• fasantupp
• fasanägg
• guldfasan

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

fasan

1. definite singular of fasa

References

• fasan in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• fasan in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• fasan in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Anagrams

• fanas, nafsa

Volapük

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [fa.ˈsan]

Noun

fasan (nominative plural fasans)

1. pheasant (bird family Phasianidae)

Declension

Declension of fasan

	singular	plural
nominative	fasan	fasans
genitive	fasana	fasanas
dative	fasane	fasanes
accusative	fasani	fasanis
vocative 1	o fasan!	o fasans!
predicative 2	fasanu	fasanus

¹ status as a case is disputed
² in later, non-classical Volapük only

Hypernyms

• böd
• nim

Hyponyms

• fasanil
• fasanül
• hifasan
• jifasan

Derived terms

• fasanapijun
• fasanöp
• fasanik
• goldafasan
• largentafasan

See also

• paf