cuán
See also: cuan, cuàn, cuān, cúan, and cúán
Aragonese
Adverb
cuán
- when
Irish
Pronunciation
- (Munster) IPA(key): /kuːˈɑːn̪ˠ/
- (Connacht) IPA(key): /ˈkuː.ɑːnˠ/
- (Ulster) IPA(key): /ˈkuː.ænˠ/
Etymology 1
From Old Irish cúán, synchronically analyzable as cú + -án.
Noun
cuán m (genitive singular cuáin, nominative plural cuáin)
- Diminutive of cú (“hound, greyhound”)
Derived terms
- cuán mara m (“sea-urchin”)
Related terms
- cuain f (“litter of puppies”)
Noun
cuán m (genitive singular cuáin, nominative plural cuáin)
- Alternative form of cumhán (“(fit of) lonesomeness; anxiety, sorrow”)
Declension
Declension of cuán
First declension
Bare forms:
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Mutation
| Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
| cuán | chuán | gcuán |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
Further reading
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “cuán”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
Mandarin
Alternative forms
- cuan (nonstandard)
Romanization
cuán (cuan2, Zhuyin ㄘㄨㄢˊ)
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 劗／𭄛.
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 巑／𰏁.
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 攢／攒.
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 櫕.
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 濽.
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 蹰.
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkwan/ [ˈkwãn]
- Rhymes: -an
- Syllabification: cuán
Adverb
cuán
- accented form of cuan (used when interrogative or exclamatory)
- 1877, Benito Pérez Galdós, Gloria:
- Si siguieras mis indicaciones que son las de una madre desinteresada, y se ajustan al criterio de tu padre y a la voluntad de tu santo tío, entonces, querida Gloria, ¡cuán distinta sería tu situación ante Dios y ante los hombres!
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Further reading
- “cuán”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014