fán

See also: fan, Fan, FAN, fàn, fân, fān, fǎn, and Appendix:Variations of "fan"

Hungarian

Etymology

fa +‎ -n

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

Noun

fán

  1. superessive singular of fa

Irish

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

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

Etymology 2

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
  • "fán" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
  • 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

Romanization

fán (Zhuyin ㄈㄢˊ)

  1. Pinyin transcription of 凡, 凢
  2. Pinyin transcription of 凣
  3. Pinyin transcription of 勫
  4. Pinyin transcription of 墦
  5. Pinyin transcription of 忛
  6. Pinyin transcription of 憣
  7. Pinyin transcription of 柉
  8. Pinyin transcription of 棥, 樊
  9. Pinyin transcription of 橎
  10. Pinyin transcription of 氾
  11. Pinyin transcription of 泚
  12. Pinyin transcription of 瀪
  13. Pinyin transcription of 瀿
  14. Pinyin transcription of 烦, 煩
  15. Pinyin transcription of 燔
  16. Pinyin transcription of 璠
  17. Pinyin transcription of 番
  18. Pinyin transcription of 矾, 礬
  19. Pinyin transcription of 笯
  20. Pinyin transcription of 籒
  21. Pinyin transcription of 籵
  22. Pinyin transcription of 緐
  23. Pinyin transcription of 繁
  24. Pinyin transcription of 繙
  25. Pinyin transcription of 羳
  26. Pinyin transcription of 膰
  27. Pinyin transcription of 舧
  28. Pinyin transcription of 蕃
  29. Pinyin transcription of 薠
  30. Pinyin transcription of 藩
  31. Pinyin transcription of 蘩
  32. Pinyin transcription of 蟓
  33. Pinyin transcription of 蠜
  34. Pinyin transcription of 袝
  35. Pinyin transcription of 襎
  36. Pinyin transcription of 觗
  37. Pinyin transcription of 蹯
  38. 釩, 鐇, 钒: vanadium
  39. Pinyin transcription of 颿
  40. Pinyin transcription of 鷭

References

Noone

Verb

fán

  1. fear

References
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