han

From Middle English han.

han

1. (obsolete) plural simple present form of have
   • 1579, Edmund Spenser, The Shepheardes Calender

     They han the fleece, and eke the flesh;

   • 1614, William Browne, The Shepheards Pipe

     Since that ye han had my virginitie,

   • 1748, James Thomson, The Castle of Indolence

     And his alluring Baits suspected han.

• HNA, Nah., ahn, nah

han

1. there

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈan/
• Rhymes: -an

han

1. third-person plural present indicative form of haver

• hand (obsolete)

From Old Norse hann (dative hánum).

• IPA^(key): /han/, [han]

han c (singular definite hannen, plural indefinite hanner)

1. male, he

han (genitive hans, accusative ham)

1. he

• “han” in Den Danske Ordbog
• “han,2” in Den Danske Ordbog

• IPA^(key): /an/

han

1. third-person plural present indicative of haber

Cognate with Tlingit héen (“water, river”).

han

1. river

han

1. Rōmaji transcription of はん

han

1. duck

han

1. Nonstandard spelling of hān.
2. Nonstandard spelling of hán.
3. Nonstandard spelling of hǎn.
4. Nonstandard spelling of hàn.

• 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.

Contracted infinitive and plural present of haven.

han

1. (transitive) Alternative form of haven - Piers Plowman.
   • Him thanken all, and thus they han an end - Geoffrey Chaucer

From Old Norse hampr.

han m (plural hans)

1. (Jersey) galangal

From Old Norse hann

• IPA^(key): /hɑn/
• Homophones: hann, hand
• Rhymes: -ɑn

han

1. he, him

Traditionally, the word for him in Bokmål is ham. However, as most people use only han in regular conversations, it used to be a somewhat common mistake when writing Bokmål. It is now allowed to use either han and ham as the object form. Additionally, Nynorsk uses almost exclusively han as both subject and object form, though honom is a rarely used correct object form. Ham is not an allowed word in Nynorsk.

• “han” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Old Norse hann

• IPA^(key): /hɑnː/ (example of pronunciation)

han

1. he, him, it (third person singular, masculine)

Han is used to refer not only to masculine persons, but any masculine noun. E.g.: Bilen er fin. Eg likar han. - The car is nice. I like it.

• “han” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Old Norse hann.

han

1. he / it (masculine nominative pronoun)

• Danish: han

From Old Norse hann.

han

1. he

• Swedish: han

han (invariable, comparable)

1. Han Chinese (referring to the largest ethnic group indigenous to China)

han m (plural han or hans)

1. Han Chinese (member of the largest ethnic group indigenous to China)

han

1. ear

Borrowed from Turkish han.

han n (plural hanuri)

1. inn

• han in DEX online - Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

From English hand.

han

1. arm
2. hand

Only used to refer to a human; for an animal, the equivalent parts are all labelled as lek.

• Ulrike Mosel, Tolai and Tok Pisin: the influence of the substratum on the development of New Guinea Pidgin (1980)
• Mühlhäusler, Peter (1983). "Samoan Plantation Pidgin English and the origin of New Guinea Pidgin", in Ellen Woolford and William Washabaugh: The Social Context of Creolization, 28–76.

From Ottoman Turkish خان‎ (han), from Persian خانه‎ (khâne, “house”).

• IPA^(key): /xâːn/
• Rhymes: -âːn

hȃn m (Cyrillic spelling ха̑н)

1. inn

• IPA^(key): /an/

han

1. Second-person plural (ustedes) present indicative form of haber.
2. Third-person plural (ellos, ellas, also used with ustedes^?) present indicative form of haber.

From Old Swedish han, from Old Norse hann, from Proto-Norse *hānaʀ (*hānaʀ).

• IPA^(key): /hanː/

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• Homophone: hann

han

1. he, the third person singular, masculine, nominative case.

   Han är mycket stilig.

   He is very handsome.

2. (informal, nonstandard or dialectal) him

   jag såg han

   I saw him.

   Synonym: honom (standard)

han

1. to eat

From English hand.

han

1. hand
2. arm
3. foreleg (of an animal)
4. wing (of a bird)
5. branch (of a tree)
6. branch (figurative)

• hanwara

• Ulrike Mosel, Tolai and Tok Pisin: the influence of the substratum on the development of New Guinea Pidgin (1980)
• Mühlhäusler, Peter (1983). "Samoan Plantation Pidgin English and the origin of New Guinea Pidgin", in Ellen Woolford and William Washabaugh: The Social Context of Creolization, 28–76.

• IPA^(key): /han/

han (definite accusative {{{1}}}, plural {{{2}}})

1. khan
2. inn (for caravans)