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Webster 1913 Edition
Dan
Dan
(dăn)
, Noun.
A title of honor equivalent to master, or sir.
[Obs.]
Old
The pure wellhead of poetry did dwell.
Dan
Geoffry, in gently sprightThe pure wellhead of poetry did dwell.
Spenser.
What time
Dan
Abraham left the Chaldee land. Thomson.
Dan
,Noun.
[Etymol. uncertain.]
(Mining)
A small truck or sledge used in coal mines.
Webster 1828 Edition
Dan
DAN
,Noun.
Definition 2024
dàn
dàn
See also: Appendix:Variations of "dan"
Mandarin
Romanization
dàn (Zhuyin ㄉㄢˋ)
- Pinyin transcription of 亳
- Pinyin transcription of 但
- Pinyin transcription of 僤
- Pinyin transcription of 唋
- Pinyin transcription of 啖
- Pinyin transcription of 啗
- Pinyin transcription of 啿
- Pinyin transcription of 噉
- Pinyin transcription of 嚪
- Pinyin transcription of 帎
- Pinyin transcription of 弹
- Pinyin transcription of 弾
- Pinyin transcription of 彈
- Pinyin transcription of 惐
- Pinyin transcription of 惮, 憚
- Pinyin transcription of 憺
- Pinyin transcription of 担
- Pinyin transcription of 擒
- Pinyin transcription of 旦
- Pinyin transcription of 憺
- Pinyin transcription of 旦
- Pinyin transcription of 氮
- Pinyin transcription of 沊
- Pinyin transcription of 淡
- Pinyin transcription of 潬
- Pinyin transcription of 潭
- Pinyin transcription of 澴
- Pinyin transcription of 澹
- Pinyin transcription of 狚
- Pinyin transcription of 疍
- Pinyin transcription of 疶
- Pinyin transcription of 瘅, 癉
- Pinyin transcription of 癚
- Pinyin transcription of 矲
- Pinyin transcription of 禫
- Pinyin transcription of 窞
- Pinyin transcription of 腅
- Pinyin transcription of 膵
- Pinyin transcription of 舕
- Pinyin transcription of 萏
- Pinyin transcription of 蛋
- Pinyin transcription of 萏
- Pinyin transcription of 蜑
- Pinyin transcription of 蟹
- Pinyin transcription of 觛
- Pinyin transcription of 蜑
- Pinyin transcription of 詷
- Pinyin transcription of 誕
- Pinyin transcription of 诞
- Pinyin transcription of 贅
- Pinyin transcription of 贊
- Pinyin transcription of 啖
- Pinyin transcription of 鉭, 钽
- Pinyin transcription of 氮
- Pinyin transcription of 餢
- Pinyin transcription of 饏
- Pinyin transcription of 馾
- Pinyin transcription of 駳
- Pinyin transcription of 髧
- Pinyin transcription of 鴠
- Pinyin transcription of 黮
Scottish Gaelic
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈd̥aːn/
Etymology 1
From Old Irish dán m (“gift, bestowal, endowment, present; skill in applying the principles of a special science; science; skill applied to the material or subject-matter of art; artistic faculty, art; especially the poetic faculty; the art of poetry; poem, song, verse, rhyme; an industrial pursuit of a skilled nature; a craft, trade, business, office, calling, profession; a profession as represented by its practisers collectively, the members of a trade as a body; an occupation, function, business; an allotted task; a payment”).
Noun
dàn m (genitive singular dàin, plural dàin or dàna or dàintean)
Derived terms
Terms derived from dàn
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Etymology 2
Adjective
dàn
References
- Faclair Gàidhlig Dwelly Air Loidhne, Dwelly, Edward (1911), Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic-English Dictionary (10th ed.), Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, ISBN 0 901771 92 9
- “dán” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.