different between radical vs han

English

Etymology

From French radical, from Late Latin r?d?c?lis (“of or pertaining to the root, having roots, radical”), from Latin r?dix (“root”); see radix.

Pronunciation

• enPR: r?d??k-?l, IPA^(key): /??æd?k?l/
• Homophone: radicle

Adjective

radical (comparative more radical, superlative most radical)

1. Favoring fundamental change, or change at the root cause of a matter.

2. (botany, not comparable) Pertaining to a root (of a plant).
3. Pertaining to the basic or intrinsic nature of something.
   • 1790, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France

     The most determined exertions of that authority, against them, only showed their radical independence.

   Synonym: fundamental

   Antonyms: ignorable, trivial

4. Thoroughgoing; far-reaching.

5. (lexicography, not comparable) Of or pertaining to the root of a word.
6. (phonology, phonetics, not comparable, of a sound) Produced using the root of the tongue.

   Coordinate terms: coronal, dorsal, labial, laryngeal

7. (chemistry, not comparable) Involving free radicals.
8. (mathematics) Relating to a radix or mathematical root.

9. (slang, 1980s & 1990s) Excellent; awesome.

Synonyms

• (linguistics, in reference to words): primitive

Antonyms

• (linguistics, in reference to words): derivative, derived

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Noun

radical (plural radicals)

1. (historical, 19th-century Britain) A member of the most progressive wing of the Liberal Party; someone favouring social reform (but generally stopping short of socialism).
2. (historical, early 20th-century France) A member of an influential, centrist political party favouring moderate social reform, a republican constitution, and secular politics.
3. A person with radical opinions.
4. (arithmetic) A root (of a number or quantity).
6. (linguistics) In logographic writing systems such as the Chinese writing system, the portion of a character (if any) that provides an indication of its meaning, as opposed to phonetic.
7. (linguistics) In Semitic languages, any one of the set of consonants (typically three) that make up a root.
8. (chemistry) A group of atoms, joined by covalent bonds, that take part in reactions as a single unit.
9. (organic chemistry) A free radical.
10. (algebra, commutative algebra, ring theory, of an ideal) Given an ideal I in a commutative ring R, another ideal, denoted Rad(I) or ${\displaystyle {\sqrt {I}}}$, such that an element x ? R is in Rad(I) if, for some positive integer n, xⁿ ? I; equivalently, the intersection of all prime ideals containing I.
11. (algebra, ring theory, of a ring) Given a ring R, an ideal containing elements of R that share a property considered, in some sense, "not good".
12. (algebra, ring theory, of a module) The intersection of maximal submodules of a given module.
13. (number theory) The product of the distinct prime factors of a given positive integer.

Derived terms

Related terms

• nilradical

Translations

References

• radical in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• radical in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• "radical" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 251.

Further reading

• Radical on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Radical of an ideal on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Radical of a ring on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Radical of a module on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Radical of an integer on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Radical of an ideal on Encyclopedia of Mathematics
• Ideal Radical on Wolfram MathWorld

Anagrams

• aldaric, cardial

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /r?.di?kal/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ra.di?kal/

Adjective

radical (masculine and feminine plural radicals)

1. radical

Derived terms

• radicalment
• radicalisme
• radicalitzar

Noun

radical m or f (plural radicals)

1. radical

Further reading

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

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin r?d?c?lis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a.di.kal/
• Rhymes: -al
• Homophones: radicale, radicales

Adjective

radical (feminine singular radicale, masculine plural radicaux, feminine plural radicales)

1. radical

Noun

radical m (plural radicaux)

1. (linguistics, grammar) radical, root

Further reading

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

Galician

Pronunciation

Noun

radical m (plural radicais)

1. radical (in various senses)

Derived terms

• radicalismo
• radicalizar
• radicalmente

Further reading

• “radical” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?ad??i?kaw/
• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /??ði?ka?/
• Hyphenation: ra?di?cal

Noun

radical m (plural radicais)

1. (linguistic morphology) root (primary lexical unit of a word)

   Synonym: raiz

Noun

radical m, f (plural radicais)

1. radical (person holding unorthodox views)

   Synonym: extremista

Adjective

radical m or f (plural radicais, comparable)

1. radical (favouring fundamental change)
2. drastic; extreme
3. (Brazil, slang) excellent; awesome; thrilling
4. (sports) extreme (dangerous)

Derived terms

• radicalismo
• radicalizar
• radicalmente

Further reading

• “radical” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Romanian

Adjective

radical m or n (feminine singular radical?, masculine plural radicali, feminine and neuter plural radicale)

1. radical

Declension

Related terms

• radicalist
• radicaliza

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin r?d?c?lis or Latin r?d?x + Spanish suffix -al.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /radi?kal/, [ra.ð?i?kal]
• Hyphenation: ra?di?cal

Adjective

radical (plural radicales)

1. radical, seismic

Derived terms

• radicalismo
• radicalizar
• radicalmente

Noun

radical m (plural radicales)

1. radical

Derived terms

Further reading

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

English

Etymology

From Middle English han, contraction of haven.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hæn/, /he?n/
• (unstressed) IPA^(key): /h?n/

Verb

han

1. (obsolete) plural simple present of have

Anagrams

• HNA, Nah., ahn, nah

Albanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [h?n]

Noun

han m (indefinite plural hane, definite singular hani, definite plural hanet)

1. (archaic) roadside shelter for travellers and their animals: roadside hostelry, caravanserai, inn
2. (pejorative) fleabag hotel
3. messy place with no control of who comes and who leaves, regular flophouse

Basque

Pronoun

han

1. there

Catalan

Pronunciation

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

Verb

han

1. third-person plural present indicative form of haver

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [??an]

Noun

han f

1. genitive plural of hana

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse hann (dative hánum).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /han/, [?han]

Pronoun

han (genitive hans, accusative ham)

1. he

See also

References

• “han,2” in Den Danske Ordbog

Noun

han c (singular definite hannen, plural indefinite hanner)

1. male, he

Inflection

References

• “han,1” in Den Danske Ordbog

Galician

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /an/

Verb

han

1. third-person plural present indicative of haber

German

Verb

han

1. (archaic or dialectal) Alternative form of haben
   • 1812, Brothers Grimm, Kinder- und Haus-Märchen, p.138 - Der gescheidte Hans

Gwich'in

Etymology

Cognate with Tlingit héen (“water, river”).

Noun

han

1. river

Japanese

Romanization

han

1. R?maji transcription of ??

Khasi

Noun

han

1. duck

Mandarin

Romanization

han

1. Nonstandard spelling of h?n.
2. Nonstandard spelling of hán.
3. Nonstandard spelling of h?n.
4. Nonstandard spelling of hàn.

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.

Middle English

Etymology

Contracted infinitive and plural present of haven.

Verb

han

1. (transitive) Alternative form of haven - Piers Plowman.

Norman

Etymology

From Old Norse hampr.

Noun

han m (plural hans)

1. (Jersey) galangal

Northern Kurdish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /h??n/

Adjective

han

1. this

   Synonym: ev

References

• Chyet, Michael L. (2003) , “han”, in Kurdish–English Dictionary, with selected etymologies by Martin Schwartz, New Haven and London: Yale University Press

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse hann

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /h?n/
• Homophones: hann, hand
• Rhymes: -?n

Pronoun

han

1. he, him

See also

References

• “han” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse hann

Pronunciation

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

Pronoun

han

1. he, him, it (third person singular, masculine)

Usage notes

Han is used to refer not only to masculine persons, but any masculine noun. E.g.: Bilen er fin. Eg likar han. - The car is nice. I like it.

See also

References

• “han” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse hann.

Pronoun

han

1. he / it (masculine nominative pronoun)

Descendants

• Danish: han

Old Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse hann.

Pronoun

han

1. he

Declension

Descendants

• Swedish: han

Portuguese

Adjective

han (invariable, comparable)

1. Han Chinese (referring to the largest ethnic group indigenous to China)

Noun

han m (plural han or hans)

1. Han Chinese (member of the largest ethnic group indigenous to China)

Rohingya

Noun

han

1. ear

Romanian

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish ???? (han), from Persian ???? (xân, “caravanserai”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?wes- (“to dwell”)

Noun

han n (plural hanuri)

1. inn, caravanserai

Declension

References

• han in DEX online - Dic?ionare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

Samoan Plantation Pidgin

Etymology

From English hand.

Noun

han

1. arm
2. hand

Usage notes

Only used to refer to a human; for an animal, the equivalent parts are all labelled as lek.

References

• Ulrike Mosel, Tolai and Tok Pisin: the influence of the substratum on the development of New Guinea Pidgin (1980)
• Mühlhäusler, Peter (1983). "Samoan Plantation Pidgin English and the origin of New Guinea Pidgin", in Ellen Woolford and William Washabaugh: The Social Context of Creolization, 28–76.

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish ???? (han), from Persian ???? (xan, “caravanserai”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /xâ?n/
• Rhymes: -â?n

Noun

h?n m (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. inn

Declension

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?an/, [?ãn]

Verb

han

1. Second-person plural (ustedes) present indicative form of haber.
2. Third-person plural (ellos, ellas, also used with ustedes^?) present indicative form of haber.

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish han, from Old Norse hann, from Proto-Norse *h?na? (*h?na?).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /han?/
• Homophone: hann

Pronoun

han

1. he, the third person singular, masculine, nominative case.

2. (informal, nonstandard or dialectal) him

   Synonym: (standard) honom

Declension

Tetum

Verb

han

1. to eat

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English hand.

Noun

han

1. hand
2. arm
3. foreleg (of an animal)
4. wing (of a bird)
5. branch (of a tree)
6. branch (figurative)

Derived terms

• hanwara

References

• Ulrike Mosel, Tolai and Tok Pisin: the influence of the substratum on the development of New Guinea Pidgin (1980)
• Mühlhäusler, Peter (1983). "Samoan Plantation Pidgin English and the origin of New Guinea Pidgin", in Ellen Woolford and William Washabaugh: The Social Context of Creolization, 28–76.

Turkish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /han/

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish ???? (han).

Noun

han (definite accusative han?, plural hanlar)

1. khan
2. inn (for caravans)