maan

See also: Maan, mån, -maan, and mään

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch maan, from Middle Dutch mâne, from Old Dutch *māno, from Proto-Germanic *mēnô, from Proto-Indo-European *mḗh₁n̥s.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɑːn/

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Noun

maan (plural mane)

1. moon

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Amis

Pronoun

maan

1. (interrogative) what

References

2017, Dictionary of the Central Dialect of Amis (阿美語中部方言詞典) (in Mandarin Chinese), Taiwan: Council of Indigenous Peoples.

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Chuukese

Alternative forms

• man

Noun

maan

1. animal

References

• A sketch of Trukese grammar (1965)
• Trukese-English Dictionary (1990)

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /maːn/

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• Hyphenation: maan
• Rhymes: -aːn

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch mâne, from Old Dutch *māno, from Proto-Germanic *mēnô, from Proto-Indo-European *mḗh₁n̥s.

Noun

maan f (plural manen, diminutive maantje n)

1. moon

Derived terms

• maanlanding
• maanlandschap
• maansopkomst
• maansopgang
• maansondergang
• maansverduistering
• kunstmaan

Descendants

• Afrikaans: maan

Etymology 2

From Middle Dutch māne, from Old Dutch *mana, from Proto-Germanic *manō.

Noun

maan f (plural manen, diminutive maantje n)

1. mane

Etymology 3

Verb

maan

1. first-person singular present indicative of manen
2. imperative of manen

Anagrams

• naam

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Finnish

Noun

maan

1. Genitive singular form of maa.

Anagrams

• mana

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Kanakanabu

Kanakanabu cardinal numbers

<  9	10	11  >
Cardinal : maan

Numeral

maan

1. ten

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Nzadi

Noun

máán (plural only)

1. wine

Further reading

• Crane, Thera; Larry Hyman; Simon Nsielanga Tukumu (2011) A grammar of Nzadi [B.865]: a Bantu language of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, →ISBN