different between klan vs koan

English

Noun

klan (plural klans)

1. Alternative letter-case form of Klan

Anagrams

• Lank, lank, lkna

Breton

Adjective

klan

1. Hard mutation of glan.

Danish

Etymology

From English clan.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kla?n/, [k?læ??n]

Noun

klan c (singular definite klanen, plural indefinite klaner)

1. clan

Inflection

Further reading

• klan on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch clan, from English clan, from Irish clann (“offspring, children of the family”) and Scottish Gaelic clann, from Old Irish cland, from Old Welsh plant, from Latin planta (“shoot, offspring”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?klan]
• Hyphenation: klan

Noun

klan (first-person possessive klanku, second-person possessive klanmu, third-person possessive klannya)

1. clan

Alternative forms

• klen

Further reading

• “klan” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Scottish Gaelic clann

Noun

klan m (definite singular klanen, indefinite plural klaner, definite plural klanene)

1. a clan

References

• “klan” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Scottish Gaelic clann

Noun

klan m (definite singular klanen, indefinite plural klanar, definite plural klanane)

1. a clan

References

• “klan” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /klan/

Noun

klan m inan

1. clan

Declension

Derived terms

• klanowy

Further reading

• klan in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Serbo-Croatian

Participle

klan (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. masculine singular passive past participle of kl?ti

English

Alternative forms

• k?an

Etymology

From Japanese ?? (k?an), which was from Chinese ?? (g?ng'àn, “official business”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?k??.??n/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?ko?.?n/

Noun

koan (plural koans)

1. (Zen Buddhism) A story about a Zen master and his student, sometimes like a riddle, other times like a fable, which has become an object of Zen study, and which, when meditated upon, may unlock mechanisms in the Zen student’s mind leading to satori.
2. A riddle with no solution, used to provoke reflection on the inadequacy of logical reasoning, and to lead to enlightenment.

Translations

Anagrams

• KAON, Kano, Kona, NKAO, kano, kaon

French

Etymology

Japanese ?? (k?an), from Literary Chinese ?? (literally, "public case").

Noun

koan m (plural koan)

1. koan

Further reading

• “koan” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• kaon

Hungarian

Alternative forms

• kóan

Etymology

From English koan, from Japanese ?? (k?an), from Literary Chinese ?? (literally, "public case").

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?ko??n]
• Hyphenation: ko?an
• Rhymes: -?n

Noun

koan (plural koanok)

1. koan

Declension

Volapük

Noun

koan (nominative plural koans)

1. shell, seashell

Declension

Derived terms

• koanaf (“shellfish”)

Yola

Noun

koan

1. Alternative form of cooanes