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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): /st??/
• Rhymes: -??

Etymology 1

From Middle English stynge, sting, stenge, from Old English sting, stin?? (“a sting, stab, thrust made with a pointed instrument; the wound made by a stab or sting”), from Proto-Germanic *stangiz.

Noun

sting (plural stings)

1. A bump left on the skin after having been stung.

2. A puncture made by an insect or arachnid in an attack, usually including the injection of venom.

3. A pointed portion of an insect or arachnid used for attack.

   Synonym: stinger

4. A sharp, localised pain primarily on the epidermis

5. (botany) A sharp-pointed hollow hair seated on a gland which secretes an acrid fluid, as in nettles.
6. The thrust of a sting into the flesh; the act of stinging; a wound inflicted by stinging.
7. (law enforcement) A police operation in which the police pretend to be criminals in order to catch a criminal.

8. A short percussive phrase played by a drummer to accent the punchline in a comedy show.
9. A brief sequence of music used in films, TV, and video games as a form of scenic punctuation or to identify the broadcasting station.
10. A support for a wind tunnel model which extends parallel to the air flow.
11. (figuratively) The harmful or painful part of something.
12. A goad; incitement.
    • 1609, William Shakespeare, A Lover's Complaint
13. The concluding point of an epigram or other sarcastic saying.

Synonyms

• (pointed portion of an insect or arachnid): stinger

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English stingen, from Old English stingan, from Proto-Germanic *stingan?. Compare Swedish and Icelandic stinga.

Verb

sting (third-person singular simple present stings, present participle stinging, simple past and past participle stung or (rare, dialectal) stang)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To hurt, usually by introducing poison or a sharp point, or both.

2. (transitive, of an insect or arachnid) To puncture with the stinger.
3. (intransitive, sometimes figurative) To hurt, to be in pain (physically or emotionally).
4. (figuratively) To cause harm or pain to.

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

• GTINs, Tings, gnits, tings

Middle English

Noun

sting

1. Alternative form of stynge

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From the verb stinge

Noun

sting n (definite singular stinget, indefinite plural sting, definite plural stinga or stingene)

1. a stitch (in sewing and surgery)
2. stitch (pain in the side)

References

• “sting” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From the verb stinge

Noun

sting m (definite singular stingen, indefinite plural stingar or stinger, definite plural stingane or stingene)

1. stitch (pain in the side)

sting n (definite singular stinget, indefinite plural sting, definite plural stinga)

1. a stitch (in sewing and surgery)

References

• “sting” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *stangiz; akin to stingan.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /stin?/, [sti??]

Noun

sting m

1. sting, stinging (of an animal)

Descendants

• Middle English: stynge, stenge, sting, steng
  • English: sting
  • Scots: sting

Romanian

Verb

sting

1. first-person singular present indicative of stinge
2. first-person singular present subjunctive of stinge
3. third-person plural present indicative of stinge

Swedish

Pronunciation

Verb

sting

1. imperative of stinga.

Anagrams

• tings

Westrobothnian

Etymology

From Old Norse stinga, from Proto-Germanic *stingan?. Compare Icelandic, Faroese stinga, Swedish stinga, sticka, stånga, English sting.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²st(e)i??/

  Rhymes: -ì??

Verb

sting, stikk (present stikk, preterite stang or stakk, plural ståkk, supine ståkkä, past participle stongän or ståkkä)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To sting, stab, gore.

Derived terms

• naut-stongän, naut-ståkkä
• mark-stongen

Related terms

• stang
• stöing