Ilan

Ilan

See also: I-lan, ilan, and ilân

English

Etymology 1

Hebrew אִילָן‎ (Ilán, “tree, oak tree”).

Alternative forms

• Ilon, Elan, Elon, Alan, Alon, Eilan, Eilon, Ailan, Ailon

Proper noun

Ilan

1. A male given name from Hebrew.

Etymology 2

From the Wade–Giles romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 宜蘭 (I²-lan²).

Proper noun

Ilan

1. Alternative form of Yilan
   • 1967 October, “Selling to the Farm Sector”, in A Market for U.S. Products in Taiwan‎, US Department of Commerce, page 77:

     Throughout the fertile alluvial plains in Chianan, Pingtung, and Ilan, farm size averages between 2½ and 5 acres.

   • 1981 June 14, “Ilan county has scenic setting for modern life”, in Free China Weekly‎, volume XXII, number 23, Taipei, ISSN 0016-0318, OCLC 1786626, page 2:

     Of the county's total area of 2,137 square kilometers, mountains comprise 65 percent. Ilan is profusely endowed with natural charms and a mild climate.

   • 1998, Robert Storey, Taiwan (Lonely Planet)‎, page 207:

     The largest city in Ilan County, Ilan is of no special interest to most travellers other than as a transit point.

   • 2004, Phil Macdonald, National Geographic Traveler: Taiwan, National Geographic Society, →ISBN, OCLC 54962554, page 128:

     The port town of Suao in Ilan County is the gateway to the east coast of Taiwan.

   • 2006 December 22, Wang, Flora, “NewsMaker: Mayor-elect Chen is a crusader in curls”, in Taipei Times‎, archived from the original on 25 January 2007‎:

     Born in 1950, Chen grew up as a farmer's daughter in Sanhsing Township (三星), Ilan County.

   • 2007 January 9, Chen Pan, “Folk Customs and Related Cultural Artifacts”, in Hakka Affairs Council‎, archived from the original on 20 October 2022‎:

     Currently only in Chuangwei, Ilan is there a "Sky Mending Temple" where sacrifices are made to Nu-Wa.

   • 2008 April 27, Wong, Jacqueline, “No quick fix to soothe Asian rice shortage fears”, in Reuters‎, archived from the original on 28 October 2022, Top News‎:

     A man holds a handful of rice as he poses for the photographer in a rice factory in Jiaosi, Ilan County, Taiwan, April 7, 2008.

   • 2010 October 23, “Typhoon Spurs Big Mudslides in Taiwan”, in The New York Times‎, archived from the original on 17 June 2022, Asia Pacific‎:

     Searchers in Taiwan found mangled vehicle parts thought to be from a bus carrying 19 mainland Chinese tourists that disappeared when rains from Typhoon Megi caused huge mudslides on a mountainside highway, the transport minister said Saturday.
     Landslides caused by the typhoon also killed nine people and buried a Buddhist temple in hardest-hit Ilan County in the northeast, where a record 45 inches of rain fell in 48 hours.

   • 2016 September 30, 王柏文; 陳信隆, “颱風假怎放 氣象局長建議看清晨4點預報 [CWB makes suggestion for typhoon day-off decision]”, in M. Larsen-Strecker, transl., Public Television Service‎, archived from the original on 01 October 2016‎:

     Executive Yuan State Administrative Council member Chang Ching-sen quoted a statistic on her facebook account, listing the number of erroneous Typhoon days over the last 15 years, with Ilan in the lead at 22 days, followed by Taitung at 21, and Taichung and Hsin Pei at 19 each.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Ilan.

Translations

Yilan — see Yilan

Further reading

• Ilan at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• INLA, LNAI, Lain, Lani, Lian, Lina, Nila, anil, lain, nail