stan

See also: Stan, stań, śtan, stán, ştan, -stan, stan', and -стан

English

Etymology 1

From Stan (“Stanley”), after the song Stan by Eminem (2000),[1] a fictitious account of the rapper's encounter with an overly obsessive fan named Stan. Sometimes assumed to be a blend of stalker +‎ fan, but perhaps simply chosen for the rhyme.[2]

Alternative forms

Stan

Pronunciation

(UK, North America) IPA^(key): /stæn/
enPR: stăn
Rhymes: -æn
Audio (AU) (file)
Audio (UK) (file)

Noun

stan (plural stans)

(Internet slang, sometimes derogatory) An extremely obsessive fan of a person, group, character, or creative work, particularly one whose fixation is unhealthy or intrusive.
IUstan
K-popstan
- 2011, Vanessa Spates, "Whether in Britney's Army or Rihanna's Navy, stans need to surrender to sanity", The Lantern (Ohio State University), Volume 132, Number 16, 11 October 2011, page 9A:
  I know the in-depth detailed life of a stan because I am one. I'm one of those Lady Gaga fans, […]
- 2013, "Selena Gomez: She Is My Queen", Sunday Tribune (South Africa), 17 March 2013:
  I am the biggest stan for Selena because she is my queen. She made Disney interesting and I have always watched her.
- 2013, Jake Folsom, "Stans take dedication to extreme heights online, in real life", Washington Square News, Volume 41, Number 104, 5 December 2013, page 11:
  Incidents have occurred with stans showing up to pop stars' residences, as has happened with Madonna, Taylor Swift and others.
- 2020 June 21, “TikTok Teens and K-Pop Stans Say They Sank Trump Rally”, in New York Times‎:
  K-pop stans have been getting increasingly involved in American politics in recent months. After the Trump campaign solicited messages for the president’s birthday on June 8, K-pop stans submitted a stream of prank messages.
- 2022 April 29, Ezra Marcus, “Johnny Depp Case Brings Stan Culture Into the Courtroom”, in The New York Times‎, ISSN 0362-4331:
  “Stans will literally go to any extent to defend anyone,” he said of Mr. Depp’s supporters, adding: “Amber Heard, she has not got that fan base.”

Hypernyms

megafan
superfan
trash
trufan
uberfan

Hyponyms

sasaeng (K-pop fandom)

Derived terms

Stan Twitter
stantwt

Verb

stan (third-person singular simple present stans, present participle stanning, simple past and past participle stanned)

(slang, transitive, intransitive) To act as a stan (for); to be an obsessive fan (of).
We stan a queen.
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:stan.

Translations

to be an obsessive fan (of)

Spanish: estanear

Etymology 2

Back-formation from -stan.

Alternative forms

Stan, 'Stan, 'stan, -stan, -Stan

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /stɑːn/
- Audio (UK) (file)
(US) IPA^(key): /stæn/
enPR: stän

Noun

stan (plural stans)

One of the stans; any of the ex-Soviet countries and their neighbours whose name ends with "-stan" such as Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Kazakhstan.
- 2015 July 30, Jules Boykoff, “Beijing and Almaty contest Winter Olympics in human rights nightmare”, in The Guardian‎:
  This is a stan with a plan. Unlike Uzbekistan […] .

References

Eminem; Dido; Paul Herman (lyrics and music) (2000), “Stan”, in The Marshall Mathers LP, performed by Eminem: “ […] truly yours, your biggest fan, this is Stan”
Lili Feinberg (20 July 2015), “The emergence of the ‘stan’”, in Oxford Dictionaries Blog‎, archived from the original on 2015-07-23

Anagrams

ASNT, NTAs, Nast, Nats, Sant, Tans, Tsan, ants, nats, tans

Albanian

Etymology

From a South Slavic language, ultimately derived from Proto-Slavic *stanъ (“lodging”). Compare Bulgarian стан (stan, “camp”), Serbo-Croatian stȃn (“apartment”);[1] non-Slavic cognates include Romanian stână and Greek στάνη (stáni).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /stan/

Noun

stan m (indefinite plural stane, definite singular stani, definite plural stanet)

A shepherd's hut.
A herd of sheep or other livestock.

Declension

Declension of stan

	indefinite forms (trajta të pashquara)		definite forms (trajta të shquara)
	singular (numri njëjës)	plural (numri shumës)	singular (numri njëjës)	plural (numri shumës)
nominative (emërore)	(një) stan	(disa) stane	stani	stanet
accusative (kallëzore)	(një) stan	(disa) stane	stanin	stanet
genitive (gjinore) (i/e/të/së)	(një) stani	(disa) staneve	stanit	stanevet
dative (dhanore)	(një) stani	(disa) staneve	stanit	stanevet
ablative (rrjedhore) (prej)	(një) stani	(disa) stanesh	stanit	stanevet

Derived terms

stanar, stanore

Related terms

tëbanë, bun

References

Omari, Anila (2012), “stan”, in Marrëdhëniet Gjuhësore Shqiptaro-Serbe, Tirana, Albania: Krishtalina KH, page 268-269

Czech

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *stanъ.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈstan]
Rhymes: -an

Noun

stan m inan

tent

Declension

Declension of stan

	singular	plural
nominative	stan	stany
genitive	stanu	stanů
dative	stanu	stanům
accusative	stan	stany
vocative	stane	stany
locative	stanu	stanech
instrumental	stanem	stany

Derived terms

stanovat
stanovit
stánek
stanoviště
stanovy
ustanovit
ustanovení

Middle English

Noun

stan (plural stanes or stan)

Alternative form of stone

Old Dutch

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *stān.

Verb

stān

To stand.

Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Derived terms

antstān
bistān
farstān

Descendants

Middle Dutch: stâen
- Dutch: staan
  - Afrikaans: staan
  - Berbice Creole Dutch: tan
  - Jersey Dutch: stân
  - Negerhollands: staan, tan
  - → Biak: vestan
- Limburgish: staon

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *stain, from Proto-Germanic *stainaz, from Proto-Indo-European *steyh₂no-, *stih₂-no- (a suffixed form of *steyh₂- (“to be solid, to crowd together”)).

Cognate with Old Frisian stēn, Old Saxon stēn (German Low German Steen), Old Dutch sten, stein (Dutch steen), Old High German stein (German Stein), Old Norse steinn (Icelandic steinn, Faroese steinur, Norwegian Nynorsk stein, Norwegian Bokmål stein, sten, Danish sten, Swedish sten), Gothic 𐍃𐍄𐌰𐌹𐌽𐍃 (stains). The Indo-European root is also the source of Ancient Greek στῖον (stîon, “pebble”), Proto-Slavic *stěnà (Bulgarian стена (stena), Russian стена́ (stená), Czech stěna (“wall”)).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /stɑːn/

Noun

stān m

stone

Declension

Declension of stan (strong a-stem)

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	stān	stānas
accusative	stān	stānas
genitive	stānes	stāna
dative	stāne	stānum

Derived terms

byrþenstān (“mill-stone”)
ċealcstān (“chalk-stone”)
ċeoselstān (“sandstone, gravel”)
cweornstān (“quernstone”)
cynningstān (“trying-stone, die”)
eorcnanstān (“precious-stone”)
flōrstān (“floor-stone, pavement”)
fōtstān (“foot-stone, pedastal”)
fȳrstān (“firestone, flint”)
grundstān (“groundstone, cornerstone, foundation”)
hrōfstān (“roof-stone”)
hwamstān (“cornerstone, foundation”)
mǣrstān (“mere-stone, boundary-mark”)
marmstān (“marble”)
stānbeorg (“stone-hill”)
stānbill (“stoneworking tool”)
stānclif (“cliff, rock”)
stānclūd (“rock”)
stāncnoll (“rock summit, peak”)
stāncynn (“a kind of stone”)
stānfæt (“stone vessel”)
stānfāh (“decorated with stones”)
stānġiella (“stone-yeller, pelican”)
stānhīewet (“stone quarry”)
stānhliþ (“rocky slope”)
stāniġ (“stony, rocky”)
stānlīm (“cement, mortar”)
stānweall (“stonewall”)
stānweġ (“stoneway, stone path, pavement”)
stānweorc (“stonework”)
stānwyrhta (“stone-wright”)
tæflstān (“die, game pawn”)
tigelstān (“tilestone”)
Wulfstān

Descendants

Middle English: stan, stane, stayn, ston, stoan, stoon, stone
- English: stone, styen (Northumbrian)
- Scots: stane
- Yola: sthoan

Old Saxon

Alternative forms

standan

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *stān.

Verb

stān

To stand.

Conjugation

Conjugation of stān (irregular)

indicative	present	past
infinitive	stān
1st person singular	*stā	stōd
2nd person singular	stēs	stōdi
3rd person singular	stēd	stōd
plural	stād	stōdun
subjunctive	present	past
1st person singular	*stāe	stōdi
2nd person singular	*stāes	stōdis
3rd person singular	*stāe	stōdi
plural	*stāen	stōdin
imperative	present
singular	stā
plural	stād
participle	present	past
	stāndi	gistandan, standan

Descendants

Middle Low German: stān
- German Low German: stahn

Polish

Etymology

Inherited from Old Polish stan, from Proto-Slavic *stanъ.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /stan/
Audio (file)
Rhymes: -an
Syllabification: stan

Noun

stan m inan

state (of affairs), condition
state (e.g., a political division of Australia or the United States)
(rare) state (sovereign polity)
waist (a part of a piece of clothing that covers the waist)

Declension

Declension of stan

	singular	plural
nominative	stan	stany
genitive	stanu	stanów
dative	stanowi	stanom
accusative	stan	stany
instrumental	stanem	stanami
locative	stanie	stanach
vocative	stanie	stany

Derived terms

nouns

błogostan
kwiatostan
owocostan
pustostan
stan błogosławiony

Romanian

Noun

stan n (plural stanuri)

Alternative form of stană

Declension

Declension of stan

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) stan	stanul	(niște) stanuri	stanurile
genitive/dative	(unui) stan	stanului	(unor) stanuri	stanurilor
vocative	stanule		stanurilor

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *stanъ, whence also stȁti (“to stand”), stȁviti (“to set, place”), stȁdo (“herd”) and stȏl (“table”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /stâːn/
Rhymes: -âːn

Noun

stȃn m (Cyrillic spelling ста̑н)

flat, apartment
loom (tkàlačkī stȃn)

Declension

Declension of stan

	singular	plural
nominative	stȃn	stȁnovi
genitive	stana	stanova
dative	stanu	stanovima
accusative	stan	stanove
vocative	stane	stanovi
locative	stanu	stanovima
instrumental	stanom	stanovima

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:stan.

Derived terms

stàmbenī
stànār
- sȕstanār
  - sȕstanārka

References

“stan” in Hrvatski jezični portal

Slovak

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *stanъ, whence also stáť (“to stand”), staviť (“to set, place”), stádo (“herd”) and stôl (“table”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈstan/
Rhymes: -an

Noun

stan m (genitive singular stanu, nominative plural stany, genitive plural stanov, declension pattern of dub)

tent
(slang) erection, hard-on

Declension

Declension of stan

	singular	plural
nominative	stan	stany
genitive	stanu	stanov
dative	stanu	stanom
accusative	stan	stany
locative	stane	stanoch
instrumental	stanom	stanmi

Swedish

Alternative forms

sta'n

Etymology

Contraction of staden, the definite singular of stad.

Noun

stan

(colloquial) The town, the city.
på stan
downtown

Usage notes

Stockholmers insist that stan always refers to Stockholm and no other cities. The phrase inte i stan (“not in the town”) to them means outside of Stockholm, but to other Swedes it means outside of any town, i.e., in the countryside.

Anagrams

sant

[1] Eminem; Dido; Paul Herman (lyrics and music) (2000), “Stan”, in The Marshall Mathers LP, performed by Eminem: “ […] truly yours, your biggest fan, this is Stan”

[2] Lili Feinberg (20 July 2015), “The emergence of the ‘stan’”, in Oxford Dictionaries Blog‎, archived from the original on 2015-07-23

[3] Omari, Anila (2012), “stan”, in Marrëdhëniet Gjuhësore Shqiptaro-Serbe, Tirana, Albania: Krishtalina KH, page 268-269

stan

English

Etymology 1

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Noun

Hypernyms

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Verb

Translations

Etymology 2

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Noun

Further reading

References

Anagrams

Albanian

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

Declension

Derived terms

Related terms

References

Czech

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

Declension

Derived terms

Further reading

Middle English

Noun

Old Dutch

Etymology

Verb

Inflection

Derived terms

Descendants

Further reading

Old English

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

Declension

Derived terms

Descendants

Old Saxon

Alternative forms

Etymology

Verb

Conjugation

Descendants

Polish

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

Declension

Derived terms

Further reading

Romanian

Noun

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

Declension

Quotations

Derived terms

References

Slovak

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

Declension

Further reading

Swedish