duan

See also: Duan, duán, duàn, duān, and duǎn

English

Etymology

Gaelic and Irish.

Noun

duan (plural duans)

  1. A division of a poem corresponding to a canto.
  2. A poem or song.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 duan in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

Esperanto

Pronunciation
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Adjective

duan

  1. accusative singular of dua

Mandarin

Romanization

duan

  1. Nonstandard spelling of duān.
  2. Nonstandard spelling of duǎn.
  3. Nonstandard spelling of duàn.

Usage notes
  • English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

Old Frisian

Verb

duān

  1. Alternative spelling of dwā

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *dʰewgʰ-.

Noun

duan m (genitive singular duain, plural duain)

  1. poem
  2. song

Synonyms
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