fán

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
• Rhymes: -aːn

Noun

fán

1. superessive singular of fa

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Irish

Pronunciation

• (Munster, Connacht) IPA^(key): /fˠɑːn̪ˠ/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /fˠæːn̪ˠ/

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

• 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”)

 

Related terms

• fánaí f (“wandering, vagrancy; casualness, haphazardness; scarceness, rareness”)

Alternative forms

• fá’n (superseded)
• faoin (standard language)

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.

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Mandarin

Alternative forms

• fan (nonstandard)

Romanization

fán (fan², Zhuyin ㄈㄢˊ)

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

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Noone

Verb

fán

1. fear

References

• R. Blench, Beboid Comparative