different between koan vs roan

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

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: r?n, IPA^(key): /???n/
• (US) enPR: r?n, IPA^(key): /?o?n/
• Rhymes: -??n

Etymology 1

From Middle French roan, probably from Spanish roano, from Old Spanish raudano, itself probably of Germanic origin (compare Gothic ???????????????????????? (raudan), accusative of ???????????????????? (rauþs, “red”).

Adjective

roan (not comparable)

1. Especially of a horse, having a coat of a dark base color with individual white hairs mixed in
2. Made of the leather called roan.

   roan binding

Translations

Noun

roan (plural roans)

1. An animal such as a horse that has a coat of a dark base color with individual white hairs mixed in.
2. The color of such an animal.
3. A kind of leather used for slippers, bookbinding, etc., made from sheepskin, tanned with sumac and colored to imitate ungrained morocco.
   • 1882, Leo de Colange, The American Encyclopaedia of Commerce, Manufactures, Commercial Law, and Finance (volume 2)

     Roan, a kind of leather used for shoes, slippers, and common bookbinding; prepared from sheep skins by tanning with sumach.

Translations

Etymology 2

Noun

roan (plural roans)

1. Archaic form of rowan (“kind of tree”).

Anagrams

• Arno, Aron, NRAO, Nora, Oran, Rona, rona

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?roan/, [?ro.ãn]

Verb

roan

1. Second-person plural (ustedes) present subjunctive form of roer.
2. Third-person plural (ellos, ellas, also used with ustedes^?) present subjunctive form of roer.
3. Second-person plural (ustedes) imperative form of roer.