han

See also: Han and Appendix:Variations of "han"

English

Etymology

From Middle English han, contraction of haven.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hæn/, /heɪn/

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• (unstressed) IPA^(key): /hən/

Verb

han

1. (obsolete) plural simple present of have
   • 1579, Edmund Spenser, The Shepheardes Calender:

     They han the fleece, and eke the flesh;

   • 1614, William Browne, The Shepheards Pipe:

     Since that ye han had my virginitie,

   • 1748, James Thomson, The Castle of Indolence:

     And his alluring Baits suspected han.

Anagrams

• HNA, Nah., ahn, nah

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Albanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [hɑn]

Noun

han m (indefinite plural hane, definite singular hani, definite plural hanet)

1. (archaic) roadside shelter for travellers and their animals: roadside hostelry, caravanserai, inn
2. (pejorative) fleabag hotel
3. messy place with no control of who comes and who leaves, regular flophouse

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Basque

Pronoun

han

1. there

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Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈan/
• Rhymes: -an

Verb

han

1. third-person plural present indicative form of haver

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Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɦan]

Noun

han f

1. genitive plural of hana

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Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse hann (dative hánum).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /han/, [ˈhan]

Pronoun

han (genitive hans, accusative ham)

1. he

See also

Danish personal pronouns

Number	Person	Type	Nominative	Oblique	Possessive
					common	neuter	plural
Singular	First	–	jeg	mig	min	mit	mine
	Second	modern / informal	du	dig	din	dit	dine
		formal	De	Dem	Deres
	Third	masculine (person)	han	ham	hans
		feminine (person)	hun	hende	hendes
		common(noun)	den		dens
		neuter(noun)	det		dets
		reflexive	–	sig	sin	sit	sine
Plural	First	modern	vi	os	vores
		archaic / formal			vor	vort	vore
	Second	–	I	jer	jeres
	Third	–	de	dem	deres
		reflexive	–	sig

References

• “han,2” in Den Danske Ordbog

Noun

han c (singular definite hannen, plural indefinite hanner)

1. male, he

Inflection

Declension of han

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	han	hannen	hanner	hannerne
genitive	hans	hannens	hanners	hannernes

References

• “han,1” in Den Danske Ordbog

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Galician

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /an/

Verb

han

1. third-person plural present indicative of haber

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German

Verb

han

1. (archaic or dialectal) Alternative form of haben
   • 1812, Brothers Grimm, Kinder- und Haus-Märchen, p.138 - Der gescheidte Hans

     Hansens Mutter spricht: „wohin Hans?“ Hans antwortet: „zur Grethel.“ – „Machs gut Hans“ – „Schon gut machen, Adies, Mutter“ – Hans kommt zur Grethel: „guten Tag Grethel.“ – „Guten Hans: was bringst du Gutes?“ – „Bring nichts, gegeben han.“

     (please add an English translation of this quote)

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Gwich'in

Etymology

Cognate with Tlingit héen (“water, river”).

Noun

han

1. river

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Japanese

Romanization

han

1. Rōmaji transcription of はん

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Khasi

Noun

han

1. duck

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Mandarin

Romanization

han

1. Nonstandard spelling of hān.
2. Nonstandard spelling of hán.
3. Nonstandard spelling of hǎn.
4. Nonstandard spelling of hàn.

Usage notes

• English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

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Middle English

Etymology

Contracted infinitive and plural present of haven.

Verb

han

1. (transitive) Alternative form of haven - Piers Plowman.
   • (Can we date this quote?), Geoffrey Chaucer, (Please provide the book title or journal name):

     Him thanken all, and thus they han an end

     (please add an English translation of this quote)

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Norman

Etymology

From Old Norse hampr.

Noun

han m (plural hans)

1. (Jersey) galangal

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse hann

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hɑn/
• Homophones: hann, hand
• Rhymes: -ɑn

Pronoun

han

1. he, him

See also

    Personal pronouns in Bokmål

Number	Person	Type	Nominative	Oblique	Possessive
					feminine	masculine	neuter	plural
Singular	First	–	jeg	meg	mi	min	mitt	mine
	Second	–	du	deg	di	din	ditt	dine
	Third	feminine (person)	hun	henne	hennes
		masculine (person)	han	han/ham	hans
		feminine (noun)	den		dens
		masculine (noun)
		neuter(noun)	det		dets
		reflexive	–	seg	si	sin	sitt	sine
Plural	First	–	vi	oss	vår		vårt	våre
	Second	–	dere	dere	deres
	Third	–	de	dem	deres

References

• “han” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse hann

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hɑnː/ (example of pronunciation)

Pronoun

han

1. he, him, it (third person singular, masculine)

Usage notes

Han is used to refer not only to masculine persons, but any masculine noun. E.g.: Bilen er fin. Eg likar han. - The car is nice. I like it.

See also

    Personal pronouns in Nynorsk

Number	Person	Nominative	Oblique	Possessive / Genetive
				feminine	masculine	neuter	plural
Singular	First	eg, je1	meg	mi	min	mitt	mine
	Second	du	deg	di	din	ditt	dine
	Third (reflexive)	—	seg	si	sin	sitt	sine
	Third (masculine)	han	han, honom1	hans
	Third (feminine)	ho	ho, henne	hennar, hennes1
	Third (neuter)	det		dess2
Plural	First	me, vi	oss	vår		vårt	våre
	Second	de, dokker	dykk, dokker	dykkar, dokkar
	Third	dei	dei, deim1	deira, deires1

¹Obsolete. ³Rare or literary.

References

• “han” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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Old Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse hann.

Pronoun

han

1. he / it (masculine nominative pronoun)

Descendants

• Danish: han

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Old Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse hann.

Pronoun

han

1. he

Declension

Old Swedish personal pronouns

	first person	second person	reflexive	third person
				masculine	feminine	neuter
singular
nominative	iak, iæk	þū	—	han	hōn	þæt
accusative	mik	þik	sik	han	hana, hōna	þæt
dative	mǣr, mik	þǣr, þik	sǣr, sik	hōnum, hānum	hænni	þȳ, þī
genitive	mīn	þīn	sīn	hans	hænna(r)	þæs
dual
nominative	vit	it	—	—	—	—
accusative	oker	*iker	sik	—	—	—
dative	oker	*iker	sǣr, sik	—	—	—
genitive	okar	*ikar	sīn	—	—	—
plural
nominative	vī(r)	ī(r)	—	þē(r)	þā(r)	þø̄n, þē(n)
accusative	os, ōs	iþer	sik	þā	þā(r)	þø̄n, þē(n)
dative	os, ōs	iþer	sǣr, sik	þēm, þø̄m, þom	þēm, þø̄m, þom	þēm, þø̄m, þom
genitive	vār	iþar	sīn	þēra	þēra	þēra

Descendants

• Swedish: han

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Portuguese

Adjective

han (invariable, comparable)

1. Han Chinese (referring to the largest ethnic group indigenous to China)

Noun

han m (plural han or hans)

1. Han Chinese (member of the largest ethnic group indigenous to China)

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Rohingya

Noun

han

1. ear

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Romanian

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish خان‎ (han), from Persian خان‎ (xân, “caravanserai”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂wes- (“to dwell”)

Noun

han n (plural hanuri)

1. inn, caravanserai

Declension

Declension of han

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) han	hanul	(niște) hanuri	hanurile
genitive/dative	(unui) han	hanului	(unor) hanuri	hanurilor
vocative	hanule		hanurilor

References

• han in DEX online - Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

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Samoan Plantation Pidgin

Etymology

From English hand.

Noun

han

1. arm
2. hand

Usage notes

Only used to refer to a human; for an animal, the equivalent parts are all labelled as lek.

References

• Ulrike Mosel, Tolai and Tok Pisin: the influence of the substratum on the development of New Guinea Pidgin (1980)
• Mühlhäusler, Peter (1983). "Samoan Plantation Pidgin English and the origin of New Guinea Pidgin", in Ellen Woolford and William Washabaugh: The Social Context of Creolization, 28–76.

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish خان‎ (han), from Persian خانه‎ (khâne, “house”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /xâːn/
• Rhymes: -âːn

Noun

hȃn m (Cyrillic spelling ха̑н)

1. inn

Declension

Declension of han

	singular	plural
nominative	hȃn	hánovi
genitive	hana	hanova
dative	hanu	hanovima
accusative	han	hanove
vocative	hane	hanovi
locative	hanu	hanovima
instrumental	hanom	hanovima

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /an/

Verb

han

1. Second-person plural (ustedes) present indicative form of haber.
2. Third-person plural (ellos, ellas, also used with ustedes^?) present indicative form of haber.

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Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish han, from Old Norse hann, from Proto-Norse *hānaʀ (*hānaʀ).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hanː/

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• Homophone: hann

Pronoun

han

1. he, the third person singular, masculine, nominative case.

   Han är mycket stilig.

   He is very handsome.

2. (informal, nonstandard or dialectal) him

   jag såg han

   I saw him.

   Synonym: honom (standard)

Declension

Swedish personal pronouns

Number	Person	Type	Nominative	Oblique	Possessive
					common	neuter	plural
singular	first	—	jag	mig, mej3	min	mitt	mina
	second	—	du	dig, dej3	din	ditt	dina
	third	masculine (person)	han	honom, han2	hans
		feminine (person)	hon	henne	hennes
		gender-neutral (person)1	hen	henom, hen2	hens
		common (noun)	den	den	dess
		neuter (noun)	det	det	dess
		indefinite	man or en4	en	ens
		reflexive	—	sig, sej3	sin	sitt	sina
plural	first	—	vi	oss	vår, våran2	vårt, vårat2	våra
	second	—	ni	er	er, eran2, ers5	ert, erat2	era
		archaic	I	eder	eder, eders5	edert	edra
	third	—	de, dom3	dem, dom3	deras
		reflexive	—	sig, sej3	sin	sitt	sina

¹Not universally accepted neologism.

²Informal

³Colloquial pronunciation spelling.

⁴Dialectal, also used lately as a gender-neutral alternative to man.

⁵Formal address

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Tetum

Verb

han

1. to eat

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Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English hand.

Noun

han

1. hand
2. arm
3. foreleg (of an animal)
4. wing (of a bird)
5. branch (of a tree)
6. branch (figurative)

Derived terms

• hanwara

References

• Ulrike Mosel, Tolai and Tok Pisin: the influence of the substratum on the development of New Guinea Pidgin (1980)
• Mühlhäusler, Peter (1983). "Samoan Plantation Pidgin English and the origin of New Guinea Pidgin", in Ellen Woolford and William Washabaugh: The Social Context of Creolization, 28–76.

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Turkish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /han/

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish خان‎ (han).

Noun

han (definite accusative hanı, plural hanlar)

1. khan
2. inn (for caravans)