English

Proper noun

San

1. A member of the ethnically distinct, short-statured nomadic people of southern Africa.
2. Any of a dozen related Khoisan languages spoken by the San.

Alternative forms

• Saan

Synonyms

• Bushman

Etymology 2

Proper noun

San

1. A river in southeastern Poland and western Ukraine.

Translations

Anagrams

• ans.
• NAS
• NSA

Asturian

Noun

San m

1. Saint (title given to a saint)

Catalan

Noun

San m

1. Saint (title given to a saint)

Irish

Etymology

From French saint, from Latin sanctus ‎(“holy”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [sˠanˠ]

Noun

San ‎(indeclinable)

1. Saint (title)

Synonyms

• Naomh

References

• "San" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.

Italian

Noun

San m f

1. A form of Santo or Santa

Polish

Pronunciation

Proper noun

San m

1. San (river)

Declension

See also

• San on a map

Spanish

Etymology

Shortened from santo.

Adjective

San

1. Saint (title)

Turkish

Proper noun

San

1. A male given name

English

Noun

san ‎(plural sans)

1. A letter of the Archaic Greek alphabet (uppercase Ϻ, lowercase ϻ) that came after pi and before qoppa.

See also

• sigma
• San (letter) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 2

sanatorium

Pronunciation

Noun

san ‎(plural sans)

1. (dated, informal) A sanatorium.
   • 1940, Enid Blyton, The Naughtiest Girl in the School

     "Haven't you heard?" said Belinda. "Joan's ill! She'd got a high temperature, and she's in bed in the San."

   • 2005, Dan Soucoup, ‎Richard Thorne McCully, McCully's New Brunswick (page 137)

     River Glade Sanatorium, River Glade, June 25, 1931. The "San" at River Glade with the Petitcodiac River in the background.

Anagrams

• ans.
• NAS
• NSA

Catalan

Noun

san f ‎(plural sans)

1. San; the Archaic Greek letter Ϻ (lowercase ϻ).

Classical Nahuatl

Particle

san

1. Alternative spelling of zan

French

Noun

san m ‎(plural san)

1. san (Greek letter)

Anagrams

• ans

Garifuna

Etymology

Probably from French cent.

Numeral

san

1. (cardinal) hundred

Haitian Creole

Etymology 1

From French cent ‎(“hundred”)

Numeral

san

1. (cardinal) hundred

Etymology 2

From French sang ‎(“blood”)

Noun

san

1. blood

Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sˠənˠ/ (before a, o, u, fha, fho, fhu)
• IPA^(key): /sˠənʲ/ (before e, i, fhe, fhi)

Contraction

san

1. preposition i + definite article an: in the (singular)

Usage notes

Used before vowel sounds and f (which lenites):

• san amhrán‎

  in the song

• san fhocal‎

  in the word

Related terms

Italian

Etymology 1

Noun

san m, f ‎(invariable)

1. san (Greek letter)

Etymology 2

• see santo

Noun

san m ‎(invariable)

1. (used before a consonant) apocopic form of santo saint

   San Pietro — “Saint Peter”

See also

• sant', santo

Japanese

Romanization

san

1. rōmaji reading of さん
2. rōmaji reading of サン

Kuna

Noun

san

1. meat

Lojban

Rafsi

san

1. rafsi of spano.

Mandarin

Romanization

san

1. Nonstandard spelling of sān.
2. Nonstandard spelling of sǎn.
3. Nonstandard spelling of sàn.

Usage notes

• English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

Middle English

Verb

sãn

1. Alternative form of seien

Norman

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin sum, from Classical Latin suum

Pronunciation

Determiner

san m

1. (Jersey) his, her, its (used to qualify masculine nouns)

North Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian sunne. Cognates include West Frisian sinne.

Noun

san m

1. (Mooring and Föhr-Amrum dialects) sun

   (Föhr-Amrum) a san gungt up

   The sun rises.

   (Föhr-Amrum) a san gungt oner

   The sun sets.

Old French

Noun

san m ‎(oblique plural sans, nominative singular sans, nominative plural san)

1. Alternative form of sens

Rohingya

Etymology

From Bengali চাঁদ ‎(tʃām̐da).

Noun

san

1. moon

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

anns + an

Preposition

san

1. in the

Usage notes

• This form is not used before nouns beginning with b, c, g, m or p, where sa' is used instead.
• If followed by f, the f is lenited.

  facal - word

  san fhacal - in the word

Related terms

• ann an

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *sъnъ, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *supnas, from Proto-Indo-European *swépnos, *súpnos ‎(“sleep, slumber; dream”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sân/

Noun

sȁn m ‎(Cyrillic spelling са̏н)

1. dream

Declension

Derived terms

Spanish

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -an

Etymology 1

Alternative forms

• (in proper nouns, capitalized) San

Adjective

san m ‎(apocopate, standard form santo)

1. (before the noun) apocopic form of santo ("saint")

Usage notes

Not used in front of the following names (use santo instead): Tomás, Tomé, Toribio y Domingo.

Noun

san m ‎(plural sanes)

1. (Dominican Republic) financial, temporal-savings scheme. The participants periodically contribute a quota to a communal pot that is given to one member, based on his/her turn amongst all the others.

Etymology 2

Noun

san f ‎(plural sanes)

1. san; the Greek letter M, ϻ

Tok Pisin

Etymology

English sun

Noun

san

1. sun
   • 1989, Buk Baibel long Tok Pisin, Bible Society of Papua New Guinea, Genesis 1:15 (translation here):

     God i mekim kamap tupela bikpela lait. Bikpela em san bilong givim lait long de, na liklik em mun bilong givim lait long nait. Na God i mekim kamap ol sta tu.

Derived terms

• sankamap

Torres Strait Creole

Etymology

From English sun.

Noun

san

1. sun

Turkish

Noun

san ‎(definite accusative }}}, plural }}})

1. name
2. reputation

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [s̪aːn˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [ʂaːŋ˧˧]
• (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [ʂaːŋ˧˥]

Noun

san

1. review
2. journal