partan
See also: Partan and partán
English
Etymology
Compare Irish portán and Scottish Gaelic partan.
Noun
partan (plural partans)
- (UK, dialect) An edible British crab.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for partan in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)
Anagrams
- tarpan, trapan
Galician
Verb
partan
- third-person plural present subjunctive of partir
Manx
Etymology
From Old Irish partán.
Noun
partan m (genitive singular partan, plural partanyn)
- crab
- "Vel ny partanyn snaue, Joe?" "Cha nel monney, cha nel monney," dooyrt Joe.
- "Are the crabs crawling, Joe?" "Not much, not much," said Joe.
- Yn partan ta dy-kinjagh 'sy towl echey cha vel eh rieau roauyr.
- The crab which is always in its hole is never fat.
Mutation
| Manx mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
| partan | phartan | bartan |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
References
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “partán”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Scots
Etymology
Borrowed from Scottish Gaelic partan, from Old Irish partán, (compare Manx partan, Irish portán).
Noun
partan (plural partans)
- crab
Scottish Gaelic
Etymology
From Old Irish partán.
Noun
partan m (genitive singular partain, plural partanan)
- shore crab
Derived terms
- partan-tuathal
References
- Edward Dwelly (1911), “partan”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “partán”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Spanish
Verb
partan
- inflection of partir:
- third-person plural present subjunctive
- third-person plural imperative