ngan

See also: Appendix:Variations of "ngan"

Kapampangan

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈŋan/ [ˈŋän]

Adjective

ngan

1. all

   Synonyms: sabla, malda, egana

Pronoun

ngan

1. all; everyone; everybody

   Synonyms: egana, eganagana, malda, sabla, langan

2. everything

   Synonyms: egana, eganagana, laren

Derived terms

• ikayungan
• ilangan
• itamungan
• retangan

Malay

Etymology

Clipping of dengan.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ŋan/
• Rhymes: -an

Preposition

ngan (Jawi spelling ڠن)

1. (colloquial) alternative form of dengan

   Kau gi ngan siapa?

   Who are you going with?

Ngambay

Pronunciation

• Audio (Chad):

  (file)

Noun

ngan

1. (anatomy) tooth

Old Sundanese

Etymology

Clipping of héngan

Adverb

ngan

1. only

Descendants

• > Sundanese: ngan (inherited)

Sundanese

Sundanese register set
lemes	mung
lemes ka sorangan	{{{les}}}
lemes ka batur	{{{leb}}}
loma	ngan
cohag	{{{co}}}

Etymology

Inherited from Old Sundanese ngan, clipping of héngan.

Adverb

ngan (Sundanese script ᮍᮔ᮪)

1. only

   Ku karéta Whoosh mah ti Bandung ka Jakarta téh rarasaan ngan sakotéap geus nepi.

   With the Whoosh train, it feels like it takes just a moment to get from Bandung to Jakarta.

Vietnamese

Etymology

Non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 雁 (“wild goose”, SV: nhạn). Doublet of nhạn.

Likely meant "wild goose" initially.

Sense "muscovy duck" (from the Americas) is attested in Phạm Đình Hổ's 1827 dictionary Nhật dụng thường đàm (日用常談 "Common Words Used Daily") , wherein ngan 鴳 was glossed as 赤靣鴨 (SV: xích diện áp) "red-faced duck" [1].

Pronunciation

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [ŋaːn˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [ŋaːŋ˧˧]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [ŋaːŋ˧˧]

Noun

(classifier con) ngan • (岸, 狺, 鴳, 𪃛, 𪇩)

1. Muscovy duck

Synonyms

• vịt xiêm

Waray-Waray

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈŋan/, [ˈŋan]

Conjunction

ngán

1. and

   Synonym: ug

Zou

Noun

ngan

1. request

References

• http://www.languageinindia.com/feb2013/zouphonologyfinal.pdf