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English

Etymology 1

san

Noun

san (plural sans)

  1. A letter of the Archaic Greek alphabet (uppercase Ϻ, lowercase ϻ) that came after pi and before qoppa.

See also

Etymology 2

Shortening of sanatorium.

Pronunciation

  • Audio (US)(file)

Noun

san (plural sans)

  1. (dated, informal) A sanatorium.
    • 1940, Enid Blyton, The Naughtiest Girl in the School:
      "Haven't you heard?" said Belinda. "Joan's ill! She'd got a high temperature, and she's in bed in the San."
    • 1958, Doris Lessing, A Ripple From the Storm, HarperPerennial 1995, p. 122:
      ‘I was in the san for ten months before the war. I know all the gen about being sick.’
    • 2005, Dan Soucoup, ‎Richard Thorne McCully, McCully's New Brunswick (page 137)
      River Glade Sanatorium, River Glade, June 25, 1931. The "San" at River Glade with the Petitcodiac River in the background.

Anagrams

Catalan

Pronunciation

Noun

san f (plural sans)

  1. San; the Archaic Greek letter Ϻ (lowercase ϻ).

Classical Nahuatl

Particle

san

  1. Alternative spelling of zan

Dongxiang

Etymology

From Proto-Mongolic *sam, compare Mongolian сам (sam).

Pronunciation

Noun

san

  1. comb

French

Pronunciation

Noun

san m (plural san)

  1. san (Greek letter)

Anagrams

Friulian

Etymology

From Latin sānus.

Adjective

san

  1. healthy, sound

Related terms

Garifuna

Etymology

Probably from French cent.

Numeral

san

  1. hundred

Haitian Creole

Etymology 1

From French cent (“hundred”)

Numeral

san

  1. hundred

Etymology 2

From French sang (“blood”)

Noun

san

  1. blood

Irish

Etymology

From earlier ins an, from Old Irish issin(d), from Proto-Celtic *in sindū/sindai (“in the m sg/f sg dative”) and *in sindom/sindam (“into the m sg/f sg accusative”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sˠənˠ/ (before a, o, u, fha, fho, fhu)
  • IPA(key): /sˠənʲ/ (before e, i, fhe, fhi)

Contraction

san

  1. preposition i + definite article an: in the (singular)

Usage notes

Used before vowel sounds and f (which lenites):

  • san amhrán ― in the song
  • san fhocal ― in the word

Related terms

Irish preposition contractions
Basic form Contracted with Copular forms
an (“the sg”) na (“the pl”) mo (“my”) do (“your”) a (“his, her, their; which (present)”) ár (“our”) ar (“which (past)”) (before consonant) (present/future before vowel) (past/conditional before vowel)
de (“from”) den de na
desna*		 de mo
dem*		 de do
ded*, det*		 dá dár dar darb darbh
do (“to, for”) don do na
dosna*		 do mo
dom*		 do do
dod*, dot*		 dá dár dar darb darbh
faoi (“under, about”) faoin faoi na faoi mo faoi do faoina faoinár faoinar faoinarb faoinarbh
i (“in”) sa, san sna i mo
im*		 i do
id*, it*		 ina inár inar inarb inarbh
le (“with”) leis an leis na le mo
lem*		 le do
led*, let*		 lena lenár lenar lenarb lenarbh
ó (“from, since”) ón ó na
ósna*		 ó mo
óm*		 ó do
ód*, ót*		 óna ónár ónar ónarb ónarbh
trí (“through”) tríd an trí na trí mo trí do trína trínár trínar trínarb trínarbh
*Dialectal.

Further reading

  • Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “san”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
  • Entries containing “san” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

Italian

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Etymology 1

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Noun

san m or f (uncountable)

  1. san (Greek letter)

Etymology 2

Noun

san m (uncountable)

  1. (used before a consonant) Apocopic form of santo saint
    San Pietro — “Saint Peter”

See also

Japanese

Romanization

san

  1. Rōmaji transcription of さん
  2. Rōmaji transcription of サン

Kuna

Noun

san

  1. meat

Mandarin

Romanization

san (san5／san0, Zhuyin ˙ㄙㄢ)

  1. Template:pinyin reading of

san

  1. Nonstandard spelling of sān.
  2. Nonstandard spelling of sǎn.
  3. Nonstandard spelling of sàn.

Usage notes

  • Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.

Middle English

Etymology 1

A contracted form of earlier sægen, from Old English sæċġan, alternative form of seċġan.

Verb

sãn

  1. Alternative form of seien

Etymology 2

From Old French san, alternative form of senz.

Preposition

san

  1. Alternative form of saunz

Min Nan

For pronunciation and definitions of san – see 山 (“mountain; hill; hill-shaped object; etc.”).
(This term is the pe̍h-ōe-jī form of 山).

Norman

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin sum, from Classical Latin suum

Pronunciation

  • Audio (Jersey)(file)

Determiner

san m

  1. (Jersey) his, her, its (used to qualify masculine nouns)

North Frisian

Etymology 1

From Old Frisian sunne. Cognates include West Frisian sinne.

Noun

san m

  1. (Mooring and Föhr-Amrum dialects) sun
    (Föhr-Amrum) a san gungt up
    The sun rises.
    (Föhr-Amrum) a san gungt oner
    The sun sets.

Etymology 2

From Old Frisian sīn.

Pronoun

san m (feminine sin, neuter sin, plural sin)

  1. (Föhr-Amrum) his

Old French

Noun

san oblique singular, m (oblique plural sans, nominative singular sans, nominative plural san)

  1. Alternative form of sens

Pali

Alternative forms

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-Aryan *śwā́, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *ćwā́, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱwṓ (“dog”). Cognate with Ancient Greek κύων (kúōn, “dog”), Latin canis (“dog”), Avestan 𐬯𐬞𐬀𐬥 (span, “dog”), Lithuanian šuo, Old Armenian շուն (šun), Old English hund (whence English hound).

Noun

san m

  1. dog

Declension

Only consensus forms are shown.

Declension table of "san" (masculine)
Case \ NumberSingularPlural
Nominative (first)sāsā
Accusative (second)(uncertain)sāne
Dative (fourth)sassasānaṃ
Genitive (sixth)sassasānaṃ
Vocative (calling)sasā

References

  • Pali Text Society (1921–1925) “san”, in Pali-English Dictionary‎, London: Chipstead

Rohingya

Etymology

From Sanskrit candra; cognate with Bengali চাঁদ (cãd).

Noun

san

  1. moon

Romani

Verb

san

  1. second-person singular present indicative of si
    2018, Yūsuke Sumi, ニューエクスプレス　ロマ（ジプシー）語 [New Express Romani (Gypsy)] (overall work in Japanese), Tokyo: Hakusuisha, →ISBN, page 20:
    Kon san?
    Who are you?

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From anns + an, from Old Irish issin(d), from Proto-Celtic *in sindū/sindai (“in the m sg/f sg dative”) and *in sindom/sindam (“into the m sg/f sg accusative”).

Preposition

san

  1. in the

Usage notes

  • This form is not used before nouns beginning with b, c, g, m or p, where sa' is used instead.
  • If followed by f, the f is lenited.
    facal - word
    san fhacal - in the word

Related terms

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

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From Proto-Slavic *sъnъ, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *supnas, from Proto-Indo-European *swépnos, *súpnos (“sleep, slumber; dream”).

Pronunciation

Noun

sȁn m (Cyrillic spelling са̏н)

  1. dream

Declension

Declension of san
singular plural
nominative sȁn snȏvi / snȉ
genitive snȁ snȏvā
dative snȕ snȏvima / snȉma
accusative sȁn snȏve / snȅ
vocative snȕ snȏvi / snȉ
locative snȕ snȏvima / snȉma
instrumental snȍm snȏvima / snȉma

Derived terms

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Spanish

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Alternative forms

  • (in proper nouns, capitalized) San

Adjective

san m (apocopate, standard form santo)

  1. (before the noun) Apocopic form of santo (“saint”)
Usage notes

Not used in front of the following names (use santo instead): Tomás, Tomé, Toribio y Domingo.

Noun

san m (plural sanes)

  1. (Dominican Republic) financial, temporal-savings scheme. The participants periodically contribute a quota to a communal pot that is given to one member, based on his/her turn amongst all the others.

Etymology 2

Noun

san f (plural sanes)

  1. san; the Greek letter M, ϻ

Tatar

Noun

san

  1. number
  2. shin, hind leg
  3. limb

Ter Sami

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian са́ни (sáni).

Noun

san

  1. sledge, sleigh

Further reading

  • Koponen, Eino, Ruppel, Klaas, Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008), Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages‎[1], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English sun

Noun

san

  1. sun

Derived terms

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Torres Strait Creole

Etymology

From English sun.

Noun

san

  1. sun

Turkish

Noun

san (definite accusative [please provide], plural [please provide])

  1. name
  2. reputation

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

Verb

san

  1. to flatten
  2. to make equal

Derived terms

Derived terms
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