different between jan vs jank

English

Alternative forms

• jân, jann

Etymology

From Arabic ????? (jann)

Noun

jan

1. Obsolete form of jinn.

Anagrams

• JNA, Jna.

Bambara

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [d?ã?ã?]

Noun

jan

1. trap (device to catch animals)

References

• 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.

Basque

Pronunciation

• (standard) IPA^(key): /xan/
  • (Biscayan) IPA^(key): [d??an]
  • (Gipuzkoan) IPA^(key): [xan]
  • (Navarrese) IPA^(key): [jan]
  • (Navarro-Lapurdian) IPA^(key): [?an]
  • (Souletin) IPA^(key): [?an]

Noun

jan inan

1. food

   Synonym: janari

Declension

Verb

jan (present participle jaten, future participle jango, infinitive jan, verbal noun jate)

1. to eat
2. to eat away, corrode

Bau Bidayuh

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *quzan, from Proto-Austronesian *quzaN.

Noun

jan

1. rain (condensed water from a cloud)

Catalan

Etymology

Shortening of Joan.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /??an/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /?d??an/

Noun

jan m (plural jans)

1. Only used in bon jan

Further reading

• “jan” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
• “jan” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Dalmatian

Alternative forms

• yan, jain, yain

Etymology

From Latin annus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ja?/

Noun

jan m (plural jain or jein)

1. year

Related terms

• jein

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???/

Noun

jan m (plural jans)

1. Each of the two tables in trictrac.

Japanese

Romanization

jan

1. R?maji transcription of ???

Swedish

Noun

jan

1. January; Abbreviation of januari.

See also

• jan - feb - mar - apr - maj - jun - jul - aug - sep - okt - nov - dec

Anagrams

• nja

Yucatec Maya

Verb

jan (intransitive)

1. to eat

Conjugation

Related terms

• jaant

English

Etymology

Ostensibly back-formation from janky (“shoddy, poor quality”).

Noun

jank (uncountable)

1. (computing, slang, rare) Perceptible pause in the smooth rendering of a software application's user interface due to slow operations or poor interface design.
   • 2013, Nick Sutrich, Android Headlines

     This also marks the first time I haven’t felt that Samsung jank on the phone, which deserves its own paragraph in its own right. That weird stuttering and pausing you’ve seen on so many Samsung phones seems to be almost completely gone on the Note 3 […]

   • 2013, Addy Osmani, Smashing Magazine

     In cases where you’re concerned about scrolling, the browser can manage the frame rate for you. But if you introduce a large amount of jank, then it won’t be able to do as good a job.

   • 2015, Bogdan Petrovan, Android Authority

     in order to hit this impressive frame rate, the “jank-free” Sky prioritizes the UI over other processes, meaning the app should stay smooth when it works heavily in the background.

   • 2018, Eli White, Facebook React Native Blog

     Even though JavaScript will try to update the animation every frame, it will likely not be able to do that fast enough and will cause dropped frames (jank) to occur.

Related terms

• janky

Adjective

jank (comparative more jank, superlative most jank)

1. (computing, slang, rare) janky (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -??k

Noun

jank c (plural janken, diminutive jankje n)

1. yowl, howl, cry

Synonyms

• gejank

Related terms

• janken

Verb

jank

1. first-person singular present indicative of janken
2. imperative of janken

Westrobothnian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²j??k/, /²j??k/, /²jæ?k/

  Rhymes: -???k, -à?k

  Homophone: Janck

Etymology

A k-derivative of jamn (“even.”)

Verb

jank

1. adjust, e.g. to smoothen out or cut evenly