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English

Etymology 1

From Stan (“Stanley”), after the song Stan by Eminem (2000), a fictitious account of the rapper's encounter with an overly obsessive fan named Stan. Sometimes assumed to be a blend of stalker +? fan, but perhaps simply chosen for the rhyme.

Alternative forms

• Stan

Pronunciation

• (UK, North America) IPA^(key): /stæn/
• enPR: st?n
• Rhymes: -æn

Noun

stan (plural stans)

1. (slang, sometimes derogatory) An extremely obsessive fan of a person, group, character, or creative work, particularly one whose fixation is unhealthy or intrusive.
   • 2011, Vanessa Spates, "Whether in Britney's Army or Rihanna's Navy, stans need to surrender to sanity", The Lantern (Ohio State University), Volume 132, Number 16, 11 October 2011, page 9A:

     I know the in-depth detailed life of a stan because I am one. I'm one of those Lady Gaga fans, […]

   • 2013, "Selena Gomez: She Is My Queen", Sunday Tribune (South Africa), 17 March 2013:

     I am the biggest stan for Selena because she is my queen. She made Disney interesting and I have always watched her.

   • 2013, Jake Folsom, "Stans take dedication to extreme heights online, in real life", Washington Square News, Volume 41, Number 104, 5 December 2013, page 11:

     Incidents have occurred with stans showing up to pop stars' residences, as has happened with Madonna, Taylor Swift and others.

Hypernyms

• megafan, superfan, trufan, uberfan

Hyponyms

• sasaeng (K-pop fandom)

Verb

stan (third-person singular simple present stans, present participle stanning, simple past and past participle stanned)

1. (slang, transitive, intransitive) To act as a stan (for); to be an obsessive fan (of).
   • For quotations using this term, see Citations:stan.

Translations

Etymology 2

Back-formation from -stan

Alternative forms

• Stan, 'Stan, 'stan, -stan, -Stan

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /st??n/
• (US) IPA^(key): /stæn/
• enPR: stän

Noun

stan (plural stans)

1. One of the stans; any of the ex-Soviet countries and their neighbours whose name ends with "-stan" such as Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Kazakhstan.

Further reading

• "Stan" fans on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Stan Twitter on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

Anagrams

• ASNT, NTAs, Nast, Nats, Sant, Tans, Tsan, ants, nats, tans

Albanian

Etymology

Borrowed from a South Slavic language, ultimately derived from Proto-Slavic *stan? (“lodging”). Compare Bulgarian ???? (stan, “camp”), Serbo-Croatian st?n (“apartment”); non-Slavic cognates include Romanian stân? and Greek ????? (stáni).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /stan/

Noun

stan m (indefinite plural stane, definite singular stani, definite plural stanet)

1. shepherd's hut
2. herd of sheep or other livestock

Declension

Related terms

• tëbanë, bun

Derived terms

• stanar, stanore

References

Czech

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *stan?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?stan]
• Rhymes: -an

Noun

stan m

1. tent

Declension

Further reading

• stan in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• stan in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Middle English

Noun

stan (plural stanes or stan)

1. Alternative form of stone

Old Dutch

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *st?n?.

Verb

st?n

1. to stand

Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Derived terms

• antst?n
• bist?n
• farst?n

Descendants

• Middle Dutch: stâen
  • Dutch: staan
    • Afrikaans: staan
  • Limburgish: staon

Further reading

• “st?n”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *stain, from Proto-Germanic *stainaz, from Proto-Indo-European *steyh?no-, *stih?-no- (a suffixed form of *steyh?- (“to be solid, to crowd together”)); cognate with Old Frisian st?n, Old Frisian st?n, Old Dutch stein (Dutch steen), Old High German stein (German Stein), Old Norse steinn (Danish sten, Swedish sten), Gothic ???????????????????????? (stains). The Indo-European root is also the source of Ancient Greek ????? (stîon, “pebble”), Proto-Slavic *st?n?- (Bulgarian ????? (stena), Russian ?????? (stená), Czech st?na (“wall”)).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /st??n/

Noun

st?n m

1. stone

Declension

Derived terms

Descendants

• Middle English: stan, stane, stayn, ston, stoan, stoon, stone
  • English: stone, styen (Northumbrian)
  • Scots: stane
  • Yola: sthoan

Old Saxon

Alternative forms

• standan

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *st?n?.

Verb

st?n

1. to stand

Conjugation

Descendants

• Middle Low German: st?n
  • German Low German: stahn

Polish

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *stan?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /stan/

Noun

stan m inan

1. state (of affairs), condition
2. state (political division of the United States)
3. (rare) state (sovereign polity)

Declension

Further reading

• stan in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• stan in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *stan?, from Proto-Indo-European *steh?- (“to stand, stay”), whence also st?ti (“to stand”), st?viti (“to set, place”), st?do (“herd”) and st?l (“table”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /stâ?n/
• Rhymes: -â?n

Noun

st?n m (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. flat, apartment
2. loom (tkàla?k? st?n)

Declension

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:stan.

Derived terms

• stàmben?
• stàn?r
  • s?stan?r
    • s?stan?rka

References

• “stan” in Hrvatski jezi?ni portal

Slovak

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *stan?, from Proto-Indo-European *steh?- (“to stand, stay”), whence also stá? (“to stand”), stavi? (“to set, place”), stádo (“herd”) and stôl (“table”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?stan/
• Rhymes: -an

Noun

stan m (genitive singular stanu, nominative plural stany, genitive plural stanov, declension pattern of dub)

1. tent
2. (slang) erection, hard-on

Declension

Further reading

• stan in Slovak dictionaries at slovnik.juls.savba.sk

Swedish

Alternative forms

• sta'n

Etymology

Contraction of staden, definite singular of stad.

Noun

stan

1. (colloquial) the town, the city

   på stan

   downtown

Usage notes

• Stockholmers insist that stan always refers to Stockholm and no other cities. The phrase inte i stan (“not in the town”) to them means outside of Stockholm, but to other Swedes it means outside of any town, i.e. in the countryside.

Anagrams

• sant

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fæn/
• (æ-tensing) IPA^(key): [fe?n]
• Rhymes: -æn
• Homophones: faan, fanne

Etymology 1

From Middle English fan, from Old English fann (“a winnowing, fan”), from Latin vannus (“fan for winnowing grain”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?weh?- (“to blow”). Cognate withLatin ventus (“wind”), Dutch wan (“fan”), German Wanne, Swedish vanna (“a fan for winnowing”), Old English windwian (“to fan, winnow”). More at winnow.

Noun

fan (plural fans)

1. A hand-held device consisting of concertinaed material, or slats of material, gathered together at one end, that may be opened out into the shape of a sector of a circle and waved back and forth in order to move air towards oneself and cool oneself.
3. An electrical or mechanical device for moving air, used for cooling people, machinery, etc.
4. The action of fanning; agitation of the air.
   • 1998, Brock Thoene, Bodie Thoene, A New Frontier: Saga of the Sierras (page 181)

     "If I cannot be of service, then I certainly don't wish to impose," said McGinty, with a quick fan of breeze that indicated a sweeping bow.

5. Anything resembling a hand-held fan in shape, e.g., a peacock’s tail.
6. An instrument for winnowing grain, by moving which the grain is tossed and agitated, and the chaff is separated and blown away.

   • The oxen likewise and the yong asses that eare the ground, shall eate cleane prouender which hath bene winnowed with the shouell and with the fanne.

   • Whose fanne is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floore, and gather his wheat into the garner: but wil burne vp the chaffe with vnquenchable fire.

7. A small vane or sail, used to keep the large sails of a smock mill always in the direction of the wind.
8. (mathematics) A section of a tree having a finite number of branches

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

fan (third-person singular simple present fans, present participle fanning, simple past and past participle fanned)

1. (transitive) To blow air on (something) by means of a fan (hand-held, mechanical or electrical) or otherwise.

   We enjoyed standing at the edge of the cliff, being fanned by the wind.
2. (transitive) To slap (a behind, especially).
3. (intransitive, usually to fan out) To move or spread in multiple directions from one point, in the shape of a hand-held fan.
4. (transitive) To dispel by waving a hand-held fan.

   I attempted to fan the disagreeable odour out of the room.

5. (firearms, transitive) To perform a maneuver that involves flicking the top rear of an old-style gun.
6. (metaphoric) To invigorate, like flames when fanned.
7. To winnow grain.
8. (baseball, intransitive) To strike out.
9. (baseball, transitive) To strike out (a batter).

Derived terms

• fanner

Related terms

• (to firing a revolver by holding trigger and hitting hammer) thumbing

Translations

Etymology 2

Clipping of fanatic, originally in US baseball slang. Possibly influenced by fancy (“group of sport or hobby enthusiasts”), fancy boy (“fan”), &c.

Noun

fan (plural fans or fen)

2. A person who is fond of something or someone, especially an admirer of a performer or aficionado of a sport.

Usage notes

The plural fen is only used within science fiction fandom. See fen, etymology 3, for more information.

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:fan

Antonyms

• hater

Derived terms

Translations

Descendants

References

• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “fan”, in Online Etymology Dictionary, retrieved 1 January 2017: “1889, American English, originally of baseball enthusiasts, probably a shortening of fanatic, but it may be influenced by the fancy, a collective term for followers of a certain hobby or sport (especially boxing)”

Anagrams

• AFN, ANF, FNA, NAF, NFA

Bambara

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [fã?ã?]

Etymology 1

Noun

fan

1. egg

Etymology 2

Noun

fan

1. direction, side

References

• 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.
• Richard Nci Diarra, Lexique bambara-français-anglais, December 13, 2010

Catalan

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -an

Verb

fan

1. third-person plural present indicative form of fer

Chibcha

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?an/

Noun

fan

1. Alternative form of ban

References

• Gómez Aldana D. F., Análisis morfológico del Vocabulario 158 de la Biblioteca Nacional de Colombia. Grupo de Investigación Muysccubun. 2013.
• Quesada Pacheco, Miguel Ángel. 1991. El vocabulario mosco de 1612. En estudios de Lingüística Chibcha. Programa de investigación del departamento de lingüística de la Universidad de Costa Rica. Serie Anual Tomo X San José (Costa Rica). Universidad de Costa Rica.

Chuukese

Noun

fan

1. church (building)

2. time (instance or occurrence)

   • Jesus a apasa ngeni Peter, "Upwe apasa ngonuk pwe non ei chok pwinin me mwen ewe chuk? epwe kökkö, fan unungat kopwe apasa pwe kose sinei ei."

     Jesus said to Peter, "I tell you that in this night before the chicken calls, three times you will say that you don't know me."

Preposition

fan

1. under

Cimbrian

Etymology

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

Preposition

fan (Sette Comuni)

1. on

2. in

Usage notes

Often used in conjunction with adverbs, such as au (“up”), übar (“over”), abe (“down”).

References

• “fan” in Martalar, Umberto Martello; Bellotto, Alfonso (1974) Dizionario della lingua Cimbra dei Sette Communi vicentini, 1st edition, Roana, Italy: Instituto di Cultura Cimbra A. Dal Pozzo

Dutch

Pronunciation

• (Belgium) IPA^(key): /f?n/
• (Netherlands) IPA^(key): /f?n/

Etymology

Borrowed from English fan.

Noun

fan m (plural fans, diminutive fannetje n)

1. fan (admirer)

Synonyms

• aanhanger
• bewonderaar
• supporter

Finnish

Noun

fan

1. fan, admirer, aficionado

Declension

Synonyms

• fani

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fan/

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English fan, 1920s.

Noun

fan m or f (plural fans)

1. fan (admirer, supporter)

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English fan.

Noun

fan f (plural fans)

1. (Canada) fan (ventilator)

Further reading

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

Friulian

Etymology

From Latin fam?s.

Noun

fan f

1. hunger

Related terms

• famâ

Galician

Verb

fan

1. third-person plural present indicative of facer

Romanization

fan

1. Romanization of ????????????

Hungarian

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

From Proto-Finno-Ugric *puna (“hair”). Possibly a doublet of pina.

Noun

fan (plural fanok)

1. (obsolete) pubis

   Synonyms: (the region) szeméremtájék, (the bone) szeméremcsont, (mons pubis) szeméremdomb

2. (obsolete) pubic hair

   Synonyms: szeméremsz?rzet, fansz?rzet

Usage notes

Today it is used only in compounds.

Declension

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From English fan.

Noun

fan (plural fanok)

1. (neologism, colloquial) fan (a person who is fond of something or someone, especially an admirer of a performer or aficionado of a sport)

   Synonym: rajongó

Declension

References

Further reading

• (pubis): fan in Czuczor, Gergely and János Fogarasi: A magyar nyelv szótára (’A Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Emich Gusztáv Magyar Akadémiai Nyomdász, 1862–1874.
• (pubis): fan at A Pallas nagy lexikona, Pallas Irodalmi és Nyomdai Rt., Budapest, 1897
• (pubis): László Országh, Magyar–angol szótár (“Hungarian–English Dictionary”), Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest, 1977

Indonesian

Etymology

From English fan (“a person who is fond of something or someone”), clipping of fanatic.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?fan]
• Hyphenation: fan

Noun

fan (first-person possessive fanku, second-person possessive fanmu, third-person possessive fannya)

1. fan: a person who is fond of something or someone.

   Synonyms: pengagum, penggemar

Derived terms

Related terms

Further reading

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

Irish

Etymology

From Middle Irish fanaid, from Old Irish anaid (“to stay, remain, abide”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f?an?/

Verb

fan (present analytic fanann, future analytic fanfaidh, verbal noun fanacht, past participle fanta)

1. to wait
2. to stay

Conjugation

Mutation

Istriot

Etymology

From Latin f?mes.

Noun

fan

1. hunger

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English fan.

Noun

fan m or f (plural fans)

1. fan (admirer or follower)

Kanuri

Verb

fàn+

1. hear
2. understand
3. feel

Mandarin

Romanization

fan

1. Nonstandard spelling of f?n.
2. Nonstandard spelling of fán.
3. Nonstandard spelling of f?n.
4. Nonstandard spelling of fàn.

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

From Old English fann, from Latin vannus. Forms in v- are due to a combination of Southern Middle English voicing of initial fricatives and influence from the ultimate Latin etymon.

Alternative forms

• fanne, ffanne, vanne

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fan/, /van/

Noun

fan (plural fannes)

1. A mechanism or device for removing chaff from grain (i.e. winnowing).
2. A training or practice shield manufactured out of twigs or wickerwork.
3. (rare) A fan; a device for blowing air as to cool.

Descendants

• English: fan, van
• Scots: fan

References

• “fan(ne, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-12-31.

Etymology 2

Verb

fan

1. Alternative form of fannen

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English fan, where it was a clipping of fanatic.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fæn/ (example of pronunciation)

Noun

fan m (definite singular fanen, indefinite plural fans, definite plural fanane)

1. (countable) a fan (person who is fond of someone or something)

Etymology 2

Noun

fan m

1. (swear word, in juxtapositions) Alternative form of faen

References

• “fan” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Occitan

Verb

fan

1. third-person plural present indicative of faire

Old Dutch

Etymology 1

From Proto-Germanic *fan?.

Preposition

fan

1. off, from

Descendants

• Middle Dutch: van
  • Dutch: van
    • Afrikaans: van
  • Limburgish: ven

Further reading

• “fan”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

Etymology 2

From Proto-Germanic *fanhan?.

Verb

f?n

1. to catch

Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Derived terms

• anaf?n
• antf?n
• bif?n

Descendants

• Middle Dutch: vâen
  • Dutch: vangen
    • Afrikaans: vang
  • Limburgish: vange

Further reading

• “f?n”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

Old Saxon

Alternative forms

• fana, fon

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *afan?, *fan?, whence also Old High German fon.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f?n/

Preposition

fan

1. from

Descendants

• Middle Low German: van, von
  • Dutch Low Saxon: van
  • German Low German: van, von, vun

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from English fan.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fan/

Noun

fan m pers (feminine fanka)

1. fan (“admirer”)

Declension

Synonyms

• (admirer): entuzjasta, wielbiciel, mi?o?nik, zapaleniec

Related terms

• fanklub
• fandom
• fanzin
• fanowski

Further reading

• fan in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Rohingya

Noun

fan

1. betel leaf

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish anaid, fanaid (“stays, remains, abides”).

Verb

fan (past dh'fhan, future fanaidh, verbal noun fantail or fantainn or fanachd)

1. stay, remain
2. wait

Synonyms

• feith
• fuirich

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English fan.

Noun

fan m or f (plural fans)

1. fan

   Synonyms: aficionado, admirador, entusiasta, fanático, hincha

Swedish

Etymology 1

From Late Old Norse fendinn, perhaps from Old Frisian fandiand, present participle of fandia (“tempt”), from Proto-Germanic *fand?n? (“seek, search for, examine”). Cognate with Danish fanden and Norwegian Bokmål faen.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?fa?n/, /?fa??a(?)n/

Noun

fan c

1. the devil, Satan

   Må fan ta dig.

   May the devil take you.

   Du var mig en jobbig fan.

   You're one tricky little devil.

Interjection

fan

1. damn (referring to the devil)

   Fan! Jag glömde nycklarna.

   Damn! I forgot my keys.

See also

• måla fan på väggen

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English fan, short for fanatic, related to the Swedish words fanatisk and fanatiker.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?f??n/
• Homophone: fän

Noun

fan c or n

1. fan (admirer)

   jag är ett stort fan av saffransbullar

   I'm a huge fan of saffron buns

Declension

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Low German fan, used since 1772, closely related to Swedish fana (“flag”).

Noun

fan n

1. vane, web (part of the anatomy of a bird's feather)

Declension

Tboli

Noun

fan

1. bait

Uzbek

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic ????? (fann).

Noun

fan (plural fanlar)

1. science

Synonyms

• ilm

Welsh

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English van.

Noun

fan f (plural faniau, not mutable)

1. van

Etymology 2

Noun

fan

1. Soft mutation of man.

Mutation

References

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present) , “fan”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

West Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian fon, from Proto-Germanic *fan?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f?n/

Preposition

fan

1. from
2. of

Further reading

• “fan (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English whanne, from Old English hwænne, from Proto-West Germanic *hwann?.

Adverb

fan

1. when?

References

• Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN