different between nan vs ann

English

Etymology 1

From Nan, pet form of the formerly very common female given names Anne and Agnes. As a nursemaid and grandmother, a clipping of earlier nana, from nanny under the probable influence of mama, also from Nan. Compare Mary.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /næn/
• Rhymes: -æn

Noun

nan (plural nans)

1. (obsolete) Synonym of maid: a servant girl. [1599]
2. (slang, obsolete) Synonym of nancy: an effeminate male homosexual. [1670]
3. (Britain, endearing) Synonym of nursemaid. [1940]
4. (Britain, endearing) Synonym of grandmother. [1955]

   We had my nan over for Christmas dinner.

Etymology 2

See at naan.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /næn/, /n??n/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /næn/, /n?n/

Noun

nan (plural nans)

1. Alternative spelling of naan

Anagrams

• ANN, Ann, Ann., ann, ann.

Acehnese

Noun

nan

1. name (word or phrase indicating a particular person, place, class or thing)

References

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

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin n?nus, from Ancient Greek ????? (nânos).

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

nan (feminine nana, masculine plural nans, feminine plural nanes)

1. (attributive) dwarf

Derived terms

• planeta nan

Noun

nan m (plural nans, feminine nana)

1. (mythology) dwarf (a member of a race from folklore)
2. dwarf (a person of short stature, usually as the result of a genetic condition)
3. (folklore) in Catalan celebrations, someone who wears a large papier-mâché head

Derived terms

• nanisme

Further reading

• “nan” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “nan” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “nan” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “nan” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Franco-Provençal

Pronunciation

• (Savoyard dialect) IPA^(key): /?n?/
• (Bressan dialect) IPA^(key): /?n??/

Interjection

nan

1. no

Antonyms

• ouè

Adverb

nan

1. no

Antonyms

• ouè

French

Adverb

nan

1. (informal) nah, nope

Synonyms

• non (standard French)

Haitian Creole

Article

nan

1. the (definite article)

Usage notes

This word is used only when the preceding word is singular and ends with a nasal consonant.

See also

• a
• an
• la
• lan
• yo
• yon

Preposition

nan

1. in

Japanese

Romanization

nan

1. R?maji transcription of ??

Lower Sorbian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nan/

Noun

nan m (diminutive nancycko)

1. father

Declension

Coordinate terms

• ma? (“mother”)
• syn (“son”)
• ?owka (“daughter”)

Further reading

• nan in Ernst Muka/Mucke (St. Petersburg and Prague 1911–28): S?ownik dolnoserbskeje r?cy a jeje nar?cow / Wörterbuch der nieder-wendischen Sprache und ihrer Dialekte. Reprinted 2008, Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag
• nan in Manfred Starosta (1999): Dolnoserbsko-nimski s?ownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch. Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag.

Makolkol

Noun

nan

1. mother

Further reading

• Joshua Arlo, Indigenous language almost extinct, 2 September 2016, LoopPNG

Malecite-Passamaquoddy

Etymology

From Proto-Algonquian *nya·?anwi.

Numeral

nan

1. five

Mandarin

Romanization

nan (Zhuyin ???)

1. Nonstandard spelling of n?n.
2. Nonstandard spelling of nán.
3. Nonstandard spelling of n?n.
4. Nonstandard spelling of nàn.

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.

Northern Kurdish

Etymology 1

Akin to Persian ???? (n?n), See there for more.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /n??n/

Noun

nan m

1. bread
2. food

   Synonym: xwarin

Etymology 2

Verb

nan

1. to put in, to set, to place
2. to fuck, to copulate, to have sex with

Old English

Etymology

From ne (“not”) +? ?n (“one”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /n??n/

Determiner

n?n

1. no; not a, not one, not any
   • late 10th century, Ælfric, Extracts on Grammar in English

Pronoun

n?n

1. no one, nobody; none
   • late 10th century, Ælfric, "The Nativity of St. Clement the Martyr"

Declension

Descendants

• Middle English: noon
  • English: none
  • Scots: nane

Old Frisian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?na?n/

Determiner

n?n

1. Alternative form of n?n

Pronoun

n?n

1. Alternative form of n?n

References

• Bremmer, Rolf H. (2009) An Introduction to Old Frisian: History, Grammar, Reader, Glossary, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, ?ISBN

Papiamentu

Etymology

The third person plural pronoun nan (“they”) and the overall plural noun suffix -nan are unique for Papiamentu and cannot be found in any other language. According to Clements and Parkvall the pronoun nan and it's derived suffix -nan were introduced into the language just in the 1700s because of the grown need for a plural marking. Apparently before the introduction the need for a plural marking was not felt. Just like in other South American languages the suffix originated in the form "kas-nan" literally "house-they" (ac Lenz).

Compare the Curripaco Arawak suffix -na and the Dutch suffix -en.

Searches are being undertaken to find the African connections with the words "iran", "ene", "na", "nan", "inen" and "ane" in the languages Bini, Kwa, Anabonese, Bantu, Kimbundu, Angolar, Fa d'Ambu, Edo and Saotome in the African countries of Sao Tomé, Angola, Equatorial Guinea and Nigeria (see Bartens and Schuchardt). All very improbably.

Pronoun

nan

1. they, third person plural
2. their

See also

• -nan

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology 1

Conjunction

nan

1. if (subjunctive)

   Nan robh mi beartach, b'urrainn dhomh cheannaich taigh-mòr. - If I were rich, I could buy a mansion.

2. whether (subjunctive)

   Biodh gràdh agam air fhathast nan robh e beartach neo bochd. - I would still love him whether he were rich or poor.

Usage notes

• Before words beginning with b, f, m or p, the form nam is used instead.
• Only used in the conditional tense, otherwise ma is used.
• The negative form is mura.

Etymology 2

Univerbation of an (“in”) +? an (“their”).

Preposition

nan (+ dative, triggers eclipsis)

1. in their

Inflection

Etymology 3

Article

nan

1. inflection of an (“the”):
   1. genitive plural preceding a consonant (excluding b-, f-, m-, p-)
   2. genitive plural preceding a vowel

Declension

Upper Sorbian

Noun

nan m

1. father

Declension

Vietnamese

Etymology

According to Ferlus (2009), from *t-rn-a??, with nominalizer -rn- infixed into Proto-Vietic *ta?? (whence ?an (“to weave”)). Further from Proto-Mon-Khmer *t?aa?.

Formationally indentical but independently developed is Proto-West-Bahnaric *trna?? ("thread"), whence Nyaheun nna?? ("thread").

Pronunciation

• (Hà N?i) IPA^(key): [na?n??]
• (Hu?) IPA^(key): [na????]
• (H? Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [na????]

Noun

nan

1. bamboo tape (for basketwork); bamboo slat (of a paper fan)

Wolof

Adverb

nan

1. (interrogative) how

See also

• naka

Zazaki

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?n?n]
• Hyphenation: nan

Etymology

Akin to Persian ???? (n?n, “bread”), see there for more.

Alternative forms

• non
• nun

Noun

nan m

1. bread

English

Alternative forms

• annat

Etymology

From Latin annata (“income of a year; income of half a year”), from annus (“year”): compare French annate (“annats”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /æn/
• (Scotland) IPA^(key): /an/

Noun

ann (plural anns)

1. Obsolete spelling of annate

Anagrams

• NAN, NaN, Nan, nan

Haitian Creole

Etymology

Contraction of annou, from French à nous.

Adverb

ann

1. Contraction of annou; let's

Irish

Pronunciation

• (Munster) IPA^(key): /aun??/
• (Galway) IPA^(key): /??n??/
• (Mayo, Ulster) IPA^(key): /an??/

Etymology 1

From Old Irish and, from Proto-Indo-European *h?n?dó

Adverb

ann

1. there

Derived terms

• bí ann

Pronoun

ann (emphatic annsan)

1. third-person singular masculine of i: in him, in it m

Etymology 2

Reduced form of inmhe

Noun

ann

1. Only used in in ann

Further reading

• "ann" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• Entries containing “ann” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

References

Ladin

Etymology

From Latin annus.

Noun

ann m (plural agn)

1. year

Lombard

Etymology

From Latin annus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?an?/

Noun

ann m (usually invariable, plural agn)

1. year

Scottish Gaelic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aun??/, /ã?n??/

Etymology

From Old Irish and. Cognates include Irish ann and Manx ayn.

Adverb

ann

1. there

2. in existence, alive

Derived terms

• ann am
• ann an

Pronoun

ann

1. third-person singular masculine of an; in him, in it

Inflection

References

• “ann” in Edward Dwelly, Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic–English Dictionary, 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, 1911, ?ISBN.
• Malcolm MacLennan, editor (1925) A Pronouncing and Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language, Edinburgh: John Grant

Vilamovian

Noun

ann

1. plural of ?n