fazan

Romanian

fazan

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian фаза́н (fazán), from German Fasan, from Latin phasianus, from Ancient Greek φασιανός (phasianós, “bird of the river Φᾶσις (Phâsis)”).

Compare Italian fagiano and French faisan.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /faˈzan/

Noun

fazan m (plural fazani)

1. pheasant (a bird of family Phasianidae, often hunted for food)
2. (slang) an idiot, sucker

   Synonym: fraier

Declension

Declension of fazan

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) fazan	fazanul	(niște) fazani	fazanii
genitive/dative	(unui) fazan	fazanului	(unor) fazani	fazanilor
vocative	fazanule		fazanilor

Derived terms

terms derived from fazan

• pica de fazan, rămâne de fazan
• fazan comun
• fazan-de-vânătoare
• fazan gulerat
• fazan japonez
• fazan mongolic
• fazan tenebros
• fazanerie
• fazanier
• făzăniță

Related terms

• fazianide
• fezanda
• fezandare

See also

• galiformă
• jacana

References

• fazan in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From German Fasan, from Latin phasianus, from Ancient Greek φασιανός (phasianós, “bird of the river Φᾶσις (Phâsis)”).

Noun

fàzān m (Cyrillic spelling фа̀за̄н)

1. pheasant

Declension

Declension of fazan

	singular	plural
nominative	fàzān	fazani
genitive	fazána	fazana
dative	fazanu	fazanima
accusative	fazana	fazane
vocative	fazane	fazani
locative	fazanu	fazanima
instrumental	fazanom	fazanima

Silesian

Etymology

Borrowed from German Fasan.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfazan/
• Rhymes: -azan
• Syllabification: fa‧zan

Noun

fazan m animal

1. pheasant

Further reading

• fazan in dykcjonorz.eu

Slovene

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fazáːn/

Noun

fazȃn m anim (female equivalent fazȃnka)

1. pheasant
2. (colloquial) freshman

Inflection

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.

Masculine anim., hard o-stem
nom. sing.	fazán
gen. sing.	fazána
	singular	dual	plural
nominative (imenovȃlnik)	fazán	fazána	fazáni
genitive (rodȋlnik)	fazána	fazánov	fazánov
dative (dajȃlnik)	fazánu	fazánoma	fazánom
accusative (tožȋlnik)	fazána	fazána	fazáne
locative (mẹ̑stnik)	fazánu	fazánih	fazánih
instrumental (orọ̑dnik)	fazánom	fazánoma	fazáni

Further reading

• “fazan”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran