partan

See also: Partan and partán

English

Etymology

Compare Irish portán and Scottish Gaelic partan.

Noun

partan (plural partans)

1. (UK, dialect) An edible British crab.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for partan in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

Anagrams

• tarpan, trapan

Galician

Verb

partan

1. third-person plural present subjunctive of partir

Manx

Etymology

From Old Irish partán.

Noun

partan m (genitive singular partan, plural partanyn)

1. crab

   "Vel ny partanyn snaue, Joe?" "Cha nel monney, cha nel monney," dooyrt Joe.

   "Are the crabs crawling, Joe?" "Not much, not much," said Joe.

   Yn partan ta dy-kinjagh 'sy towl echey cha vel eh rieau roauyr.

   The crab which is always in its hole is never fat.

Mutation

Manx mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
partan	phartan	bartan
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “partán”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Scots

Etymology

Borrowed from Scottish Gaelic partan, from Old Irish partán, (compare Manx partan, Irish portán).

Noun

partan (plural partans)

1. crab

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish partán.

Noun

partan m (genitive singular partain, plural partanan)

1. shore crab

Derived terms

• partan-tuathal

References

• Edward Dwelly (1911), “partan”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “partán”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Spanish

Verb

partan

1. inflection of partir:
   1. third-person plural present subjunctive
   2. third-person plural imperative