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English

Etymology

Borrowed from French plan (“a ground-plot of a building”), from plan (“flat”), a later form of the vernacular plain, from Latin planus (“flat, plane”); see plain, plane.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /plæn/, [p?l?æn]
• (US regional) IPA^(key): [pl??n]
• Rhymes: -æn

Noun

plan (plural plans)

1. A drawing showing technical details of a building, machine, etc., with unwanted details omitted, and often using symbols rather than detailed drawing to represent doors, valves, etc.

2. A set of intended actions, usually mutually related, through which one expects to achieve a goal.
3. A two-dimensional drawing of a building as seen from above with obscuring or irrelevant details such as roof removed, or of a floor of a building, revealing the internal layout; as distinct from the elevation.

   Synonym: floor plan

4. A method; a way of procedure; a custom.
   • 1815, William Wordsworth, Rob Roy's Grave

     The simple plan, / That they should take who have the power, / And they should keep who can.

5. A subscription to a service.

Usage notes

• A plan ("set of intended actions") can be developed, executed, implemented, ignored, abandoned, scrapped, changed, etc.

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ??? (puran)

Translations

Verb

plan (third-person singular simple present plans, present participle planning, simple past and past participle planned)

1. (transitive) To design (a building, machine, etc.).

2. (transitive) To create a plan for.

3. (intransitive) To intend.

4. (intransitive) To make a plan.

Usage notes

• This is a catenative verb that takes the to infinitive. See Appendix:English catenative verbs

Derived terms

Translations

Further reading

• plan in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• plan in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Azerbaijani

Noun

plan (definite accusative plan?, plural planlar)

1. plan (set of intended actions), scheme

2. draft, plan, scheme, contrivance, road map
3. layout

Declension

Derived terms

• planla?d?rmaq

Further reading

• “plan” in Obastan.com.

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pl?n/
• Hyphenation: plan
• Rhymes: -?n

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French plan, from Middle French plant.

Noun

plan n (plural plannen, diminutive plannetje n)

1. A set of intended actions, through which one expects to achieve a goal.
2. A technical drawing.
3. A detailed map of a relatively small area, such as a building or settlement.

   Synonym: plattegrond

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Indonesian: plan

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

plan

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

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pl??/
• Homophones: plans, plant, plants

Etymology 1

From earlier plant, derived from the verb planter. Doublet of plant. Or from Latin planus

Noun

plan m (plural plans)

1. plan
2. map (schematic maps of streets, subways, etc.)
3. plane (both flat surface and mathematical plane)
4. (film) shot
5. (slang, dated) A small case inserted in the rectum in order to hide one's valuables from a full-body search.

Derived terms

Descendants

• German: Plan
  • Norwegian Bokmål: plan

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Latin pl?nus. Doublet of plain, which was inherited, and piano.

Adjective

plan (feminine singular plane, masculine plural plans, feminine plural planes)

1. planar

Derived terms

• lichen plan

Further reading

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

Friulian

Etymology

From Latin pl?nus.

Adjective

plan

1. flat, level, plane

Related terms

• planc

See also

• plac
• vualîf

Noun

plan m (plural plans)

1. plane
2. plan

German

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pl?nus.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -a?n

Adjective

plan (comparative planer, superlative am plansten)

1. (technical) planar, flat
2. (archaic) plain, forthright

Declension

Derived terms

• planlegen

See also

• Plan

Further reading

• “plan” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “plan” in Duden online

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch plan, from French plan (“a ground-plot of a building”), from plan (“flat”), a later form of the vernacular plain, from Latin planus (“flat, plane”). Doublet of pelan.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /plan/, [?plan], [p???lan]
• Hyphenation: plan

Noun

plan

1. plan, a set of intended actions, usually mutually related, through which one expects to achieve a goal.

   Synonym: rencana

Alternative forms

• pelan (Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore)

Further reading

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

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From German Plan (“project, plan”), from French plan, from Latin pl?num (“plain, level ground”), from pl?nus (“flat, even, level”), from Proto-Italic *pl?nos, from Proto-Indo-European *pleh?-no-s (“flattened”), from *pleh?- (“flat”).

Noun

plan m (definite singular planen, indefinite plural planer, definite plural planene)

1. a plan
2. a level or plane

Derived terms

References

• “plan” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pla?n/ (example of pronunciation)

Etymology 1

From German Plan, from Latin pl?num.

Noun

plan n (definite singular planet, indefinite plural plan, definite plural plana)

1. plane
2. level

Derived terms

• planovergang

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

plan m (definite singular planen, indefinite plural planar, definite plural planane)

1. a plan

Derived terms

Etymology 3

From Latin planus.

Adjective

plan (masculine and feminine plan, neuter plant, definite singular and plural plane, comparative planare, indefinite superlative planast, definite superlative planaste)

1. plane, flat

References

• “plan” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Occitan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pla/

Noun

plan m (plural plans)

1. plan (a drawing showing technical details of a building)
2. plan (a set of intended actions)

Adjective

plan m (feminine singular plana, masculine plural plans, feminine plural planas)

1. flat

   Synonym: planièr

Adverb

plan

1. well

   Antonym: mal

2. very, quite

   Synonym: fòrça

Further reading

• Joan de Cantalausa (2006) Diccionari general occitan a partir dels parlars lengadocians, 2 edition, ?ISBN, page 754.

Polish

Etymology

From German Plan, from French plan.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /plan/

Noun

plan m inan

1. plan

2. set (scenery for a film or play)

Declension

Further reading

• plan in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

From French plan, from Latin planus.

Adjective

plan m or n (feminine singular plan?, masculine plural plani, feminine and neuter plural plane)

1. plan
2. (geometry) plane

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From German Plan.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /plâ?n/
• Rhymes: -â?n

Noun

pl?n m (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. plan

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

From plano.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?plan/, [?plãn]

Noun

plan m (plural planes)

1. plan
2. scheme (systematic plan of future action)

   Synonyms: régimen, sistema

3. intention
4. (colloquial) mood

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

• ? Basque: plan

Further reading

• “plan” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

Swedish

Pronunciation

Adjective

plan (comparative planare, superlative planast)

1. flat; horizontal (of a surface)

Declension

Noun

plan n

1. (mathematics) a plane; flat surface.
2. a plane; level of existence

3. an aeroplane

   Synonym: flygplan

4. a plaza

Declension

Derived terms

See also

• sluttande plan
• lutande plan

Noun

plan c

1. a drawing showing how to construct a building, machine, etc.
2. a set of intended actions, through which one expects to achieve a goal.

Declension

Derived terms

Volapük

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [plan]

Noun

plan (nominative plural plans)

1. plant (botany)

Declension

Derived terms

See also

English

Noun

plana

1. plural of planum

Anagrams

• LANAP, LAPAN, Lapan

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /?pla.n?/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /?pla.na/

Noun

plana f (plural planes)

1. plain (an expanse of land with relatively low relief)

   Synonyms: planura, planícia

2. flounder

   Synonym: rèmol de riu

Adjective

plana f sg

1. feminine singular of pla

Further reading

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

French

Verb

plana

1. third-person singular past historic of planer

Anagrams

• palan

Galician

Adjective

plana f sg

1. feminine singular of plano

Icelandic

Etymology

Ultimately from Latin pl?nus (“level, flat”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?la?na/
• Rhymes: -a?na

Verb

plana (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative planaði, supine planað)

1. (informal) to plan

   Synonym: skipuleggja

2. (mechanics' jargon) to plane (make flat, level)

Conjugation

Italian

Verb

plana

1. third-person singular present indicative of planare
2. second-person singular imperative of planare

Latin

Etymology 1

Alternative forms

•  pl?n?t?rium

Noun

pl?na f (genitive pl?nae); first declension

1. (Late Latin, Medieval Latin) smoothing plane

Declension

First-declension noun.

Descendants

pl?na

• Bresciano: piona
• Catalan: plana
• Comasco: piana, piona
• Old French: plaine
  • ? Middle English: plaine, plaine
    • English: plane
    • ? Irish: plána
• Friulian: plana
• Istriot: spiana
• Ladin: plana
• Lombard: piana
• Neapolitan: chiana
• Sardinian: prana
• Piedmontese: piana
• Portuguese: plaina
• Old Occitan: plana
• Sicilian: chiana
• Spanish: llana, plana
• Trentino: piona
• Venetian: piana
• Veronese: piona
• ? Greek: ????? (pláni)

*pl?nea

• Northern Italian: piagna
• ? Greek: ?????? (plánia)
  • ? Ottoman Turkish: ??????? (planya)
    • Turkish: planya
• ? Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ??????

  Latin: bl?nja

*pl?nula

• Italian: pialla

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• pl?na: (Classical) IPA^(key): /?pla?.na/, [?p??ä?nä]
• pl?na: (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?pla.na/, [?pl??n?]
• pl?na: (Classical) IPA^(key): /?pla?.na/, [?p??ä?nä]
• pl?na: (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?pla.na/, [?pl??n?]

Adjective

pl?na

1. nominative feminine singular of pl?nus
2. nominative neuter plural of pl?nus
3. accusative neuter plural of pl?nus
4. vocative feminine singular of pl?nus
5. nominative neuter plural of pl?nus

Adjective

pl?n?

1. ablative feminine singular of pl?nus

References

• plana in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• plana in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• plana in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Mussafia, Adolf (1873) Beitrag zur Kunde der norditalienischen Mundarten im XV. Jahrhunderte (Denkschriften der Philosophisch-Historischen Classe der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften; 22), Wien: In Commission bei Karl Gerold’s Sohn, page 88

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

plana n pl

1. definite plural of plan

Occitan

Pronunciation

Adjective

plana

1. feminine singular of plan

Old Polish

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *pl?na.

Noun

plana f

1. stain

Descendants

• Polish: plama
  • ? Belarusian: ?????? (pljáma)
  • ? Ukrainian: ?????? (pljáma)

Further reading

• M. Arcta S?ownik Staropolski/P (ca?o??) on the Polish Wikisource.pl.Wikisource:M. Arcta S?ownik Staropolski/P (ca?o??)
• “plama”, in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego?^[1], 2013

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -??na

Adjective

plana

1. feminine singular of plano

Romanian

Etymology

From French planer.

Verb

a plana (third-person singular present planeaz?, past participle planat) 1st conj.

1. to plane

Conjugation

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?plana/, [?pla.na]

Adjective

plana

1. feminine singular of plano

Noun

plana f (plural planas)

1. face; side (of a sheet of paper)
2. page (of a newspaper)

Derived terms

• a toda plana
• enmendar la plana

Swedish

Etymology

From plan +? -a.

Adjective

plana

1. absolute singular definite and plural form of plan.

Verb

plana (present planar, preterite planade, supine planat, imperative plana)

1. plane; to move in a way that lifts the bow of a boat out of the water

Conjugation

See also

• Medelplana
• plana ut