different between san vs sab

English

Etymology 1

Noun

san (plural sans)

1. A letter of the Archaic Greek alphabet (uppercase ?, lowercase ?) that came after pi and before qoppa.

Translations

See also

• sigma
• San (letter) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 2

Shortening of sanatorium.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -æn

Noun

san (plural sans)

1. (dated, informal) A sanatorium.
   • 1958, Doris Lessing, A Ripple From the Storm, HarperPerennial 1995, p. 122:

     ‘I was in the san for ten months before the war. I know all the gen about being sick.’

   • 2005, Dan Soucoup, ?Richard Thorne McCully, McCully's New Brunswick (page 137)

     River Glade Sanatorium, River Glade, June 25, 1931. The "San" at River Glade with the Petitcodiac River in the background.

Anagrams

• ANS, NAS, NAs, NSA, SNA, ans, ans.

Afar

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s?n/

Noun

sán m (plural sanitté f or sanwá f)

1. nose

References

• Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)?^[1], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis), page 61

Atong (India)

Etymology

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

Noun

san

1. day

References

• van Breugel, Seino. 2015. Atong-English dictionary, second edition. Available online: https://www.academia.edu/487044/Atong_English_Dictionary.

Catalan

Pronunciation

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

Noun

san f (plural sans)

1. San; the Archaic Greek letter ? (lowercase ?).

Classical Nahuatl

Particle

san

1. Alternative spelling of zan

Dongxiang

Etymology

From Proto-Mongolic *sam, compare Mongolian ??? (sam).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sa?/

Noun

san

1. comb

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /san/

Noun

san m (plural san)

1. san (Greek letter)

Anagrams

• ans

Friulian

Etymology

From Latin s?nus.

Adjective

san

1. healthy, sound

Related terms

• sanetât

Galician

Etymology 1

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese san, from Latin sanctus. Cognate with Portuguese são and Spanish san.

Alternative forms

• San

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?sa?]

Adjective

san m (apocopate, standard form santo)

1. (before nouns which began by a consonant) Apocopic form of santo (“saint”)

Etymology 2

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese são (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin s?nus. Cognate with Portuguese são and Spanish sano.

Alternative forms

• sao

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?sa?]

Adjective

san m (feminine singular sa, masculine plural sans, feminine plural sas)

1. healthy, sound
   • 1775, María Francisca Isla y Losada, Romance:

     Ay Jesús! miña Joiña!

     non falemos nesto mais,

     que dá grima sò o pensalo,

     Deus vos garde bo é san.

     Santiago. Febreiro doce

     Aÿ! que non sey que me dà,

     que me esfraquezo de todo,

     è non podo vafexàr.

     Oh, Jesus! My Jewel!

     Let's not talk about this anymore

     because it brings creeps just to think about it.

     God take care of you, safe and sound.

     Santiago, February twelve

     Oh!, I don't know what happens to me

     I'm totally weakening

     and I can't breathe

Related terms

• sandar

References

• “são” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “san” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “são” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “san” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “san” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “san” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Garifuna

Etymology

Probably from French cent.

Numeral

san

1. hundred

Haitian Creole

Etymology 1

From French cent (“hundred”)

Numeral

san

1. hundred

Etymology 2

From French sang (“blood”)

Noun

san

1. blood

Irish

Etymology

From earlier ins an, from Old Irish issin(d), from Proto-Celtic *in sind?/sindai (“in the m sg/f sg dative”) and *in sindom/sindam (“into the m sg/f sg accusative”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s??n?/ (before a, o, u, fha, fho, fhu)
• IPA^(key): /s??n?/ (before e, i, fhe, fhi)

Contraction

san

1. preposition i + definite article an: in the (singular)

Usage notes

Used before vowel sounds and f (which lenites):

Related terms

Further reading

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

Italian

Etymology 1

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

Noun

san m or f (invariable)

1. san (Greek letter)

Etymology 2

• see santo

Noun

san m (invariable)

1. (used before a consonant) Apocopic form of santo saint

   San Pietro — “Saint Peter”

See also

• sant', santo

Japanese

Romanization

san

1. R?maji transcription of ??
2. R?maji transcription of ??

Kuna

Noun

san

1. meat

Lombard

Etymology

From sano.

Adjective

san

1. healthy

Mandarin

Romanization

san (Zhuyin ???)

1. Pinyin transcription of ????

san

1. Nonstandard spelling of s?n.
2. Nonstandard spelling of s?n.
3. Nonstandard spelling of sàn.

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 1

A contracted form of earlier sægen, from Old English sæ??an, alternative form of se??an.

Verb

sãn

1. Alternative form of seien

Etymology 2

From Old French san, alternative form of senz.

Preposition

san

1. Alternative form of saunz

Min Nan

Norman

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin sum, from Classical Latin suum

Pronunciation

Determiner

san m

1. (Jersey) his, her, its (used to qualify masculine nouns)

North Frisian

Etymology 1

From Old Frisian sunne. Cognates include West Frisian sinne.

Noun

san m

1. (Mooring and Föhr-Amrum) sun

Etymology 2

From Old Frisian s?n.

Pronoun

san m (feminine sin, neuter sin, plural sin)

1. (Föhr-Amrum) his

Old French

Noun

san m (oblique plural sans, nominative singular sans, nominative plural san)

1. Alternative form of sens

Pali

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Sanskrit ????? (?van).

Noun

san m

1. dog

Declension

Only consensus forms are shown.

Descendants

• ? Thai: ?? (s?a)

References

• “san”, in Pali Text Society, editor, Pali-English Dictionary?, London: Chipstead, 1921-1925.

Pnar

Etymology

From Proto-Khasian *san, from Proto-Mon-Khmer *suun ~ *su?n ~ *s?n; cognate with Khasi san, Mang han², Mon ????? (p?s?n) and Proto-Palaungic *psan (whence Riang [Lang] k?an¹ and Danau ??n?).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /san/

Numeral

san

1. (cardinal) five

Rohingya

Alternative forms

• ????????????? (san) – Hanifi Rohingya script

Etymology

From Sanskrit ?????? (candra); cognate with Bengali ???? (cãdô).

Noun

san (Hanifi spelling ????????????)

1. moon

Romani

Verb

san

1. second-person singular present indicative of si

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From anns + an, from Old Irish issin(d), from Proto-Celtic *in sind?/sindai (“in the m sg/f sg dative”) and *in sindom/sindam (“into the m sg/f sg accusative”).

Preposition

san

1. in the

Usage notes

• This form is not used before nouns beginning with b, c, g, m or p, where sa is used instead.
• If followed by f, the f is lenited.

  facal - word

  san fhacal - in the word

Related terms

• ann an

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *s??n?, from Proto-Indo-European *supnós.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sân/

Noun

s?n m (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. dream

Declension

Derived terms

Somali

Etymology

From Proto-Cushitic *?is??-

Noun

san ?

1. nose

References

• san Afmaal Somali-English Dictionary.

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?san/, [?sãn]
• Rhymes: -an

Etymology 1

Alternative forms

• San (in proper nouns, capitalized)

Adjective

san m (apocopate, standard form santo)

1. (before the noun) Apocopic form of santo (“saint”)

Usage notes

Not used in front of the following names (use santo instead): Tomás, Tomé, Toribio, and Domingo.

Noun

san m (plural sanes)

1. (Dominican Republic) financial, temporal-savings scheme. The participants periodically contribute a quota to a communal pot that is given to one member, based on his/her turn amongst all the others.

Etymology 2

Noun

san f (plural sanes)

1. san; the Greek letter M, ?

Tatar

Noun

san

1. number
2. shin, hind leg
3. limb

Ter Sami

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian ????? (sáni).

Noun

san

1. sledge, sleigh

Further reading

• Koponen, Eino; Ruppel, Klaas; Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002-2008) Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages?^[2], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English sun

Noun

san

1. sun

Derived terms

• sankamap

Torres Strait Creole

Etymology

From English sun.

Noun

san

1. sun

Turkish

Etymology

Related to saymak and sanmak.

Noun

san (definite accusative san?, plural sanlar)

1. name
2. reputation

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

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

Verb

san

1. to flatten
2. to make equal

Derived terms

Zhuang

Etymology

From Proto-Tai *sa?n. Cognate with Thai ??? (s?an), Northern Thai ????, Lao ??? (s?n), Lü ??? (?aan), Khün ????, Shan ???? (s?an), Ahom ???????????? (san).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Zhuang) IPA^(key): /?a?n??/
• Tone numbers: san¹
• Hyphenation: san

Verb

san (old orthography san)

1. to weave

English

Etymology

Short for sabotage.

Verb

sab (third-person singular simple present sabs, present participle sabbing, simple past and past participle sabbed)

1. (informal) To sabotage, especially fox hunts in opposition to blood sports.

Noun

sab (plural sabs)

1. (informal) A saboteur, especially of fox hunts.

Anagrams

• ABS, ABs, Abs, B. A. S., B.A.S., B.A.s, BAS, BAs, BSA, SBA, abs, abs-, abs., bas

Catalan

Verb

sab

1. Obsolete form of sap.

Cornish

Noun

sab f (singulative saben)

1. pines

Synonyms

• pin

Haitian Creole

Etymology

From French sable (“sand”)

Noun

sab

1. sand

Maltese

Etymology

From Arabic ???????? (?a??ba). Compare Moroccan Arabic ???? (??b).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sa?p/

Verb

sab (imperfect jsib, past participle misjub)

1. to find
   1. to find (something) useful
2. to catch
3. to look for
4. to find out, to realise

Conjugation

Scots

Noun

sab (plural sabs)

1. sob

Verb

sab

1. sob