fán

See also: Appendix:Variations of "fan"

Hungarian

Etymology

fa +‎ -n

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ˈfaːn]
  • Hyphenation: fán
  • Rhymes: -aːn

Noun

fán

  1. superessive singular of fa

Irish

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Old Irish fán; see fána (“slope, depression”).

Noun

fán m (genitive singular fáin)

  1. Alternative form of fána (“downward slope, declivity; depression, hollow; droop”)
  2. straying, wandering, vagrancy
  3. turning aside, averting
  4. sparsity
Declension
Declension of fán

First declension

Bare forms (no plural of this noun)

Case Singular
Nominative fán
Vocative a fháin
Genitive fáin
Dative fán

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular
Nominative an fán
Genitive an fháin
Dative leis an bhfán

don fhán

Derived terms
  • fán-aisteoir m (“busker”)
  • fánach (“wandering, straying, vagrant; aimless, purposeless; vain, futile; casual, haphazard; occasional, rare; trivial, insignificant; sparse”, adjective)
  • fánaíocht f (“(act of) wandering, vagrancy; (act of) rambling, roving; hiking; casualness, haphazardness; aimlessness, purposelessness; diminishment, decline; drift”)
  • fánaí m (“wanderer, vagrant; casual worker; potterer; odd, chance, casual, person”)
  • ridireacht fáin f (“knight-errantry”)
  • fánaí f (“wandering, vagrancy; casualness, haphazardness; scarceness, rareness”)

Alternative forms

Contraction

fán

  1. (Ulster) Contraction of fá an (“about the”).

Mutation
Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
fán fhán bhfán
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading
  • Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “fán”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
  • Entries containing “fán” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
  • Entries containing “fán” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

Mandarin

Alternative forms
  • fan — nonstandard

Romanization

fán (fan2, Zhuyin ㄈㄢˊ)

  1. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 凡, 凢
  2. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 勫
  3. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 墦
  4. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 忛
  5. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 憣
  6. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 柉
  7. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 棥, 樊
  8. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 橎
  9. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 氾
  10. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 瀪
  11. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 瀿
  12. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 煩／烦
  13. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 燔
  14. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 璠
  15. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 番
  16. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 礬／矾
  17. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 籵
  18. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 緐／繁
  19. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 繁
  20. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 繙／𬙆
  21. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 羳
  22. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 膰
  23. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 舧
  24. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 蕃
  25. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 薠／𮐚
  26. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 藩
  27. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 蘩
  28. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 蠜
  29. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 襎
  30. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 蹯
  31. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 釩／钒
  32. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 鐇／𫔍
  33. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 鷭／𬸪

Noone

Verb

fán

  1. fear

References
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