different between syllable vs han

English

Alternative forms

• syllab (obsolete)
• syllabe (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English syllable, sillable, syllabylle, sylabul, from Anglo-Norman sillable, from Old French sillebe, from Latin syllaba, from Ancient Greek ??????? (sullab?), from ?????????? (sullambán?, “I gather together”), from ???- (sun-, “together”) + ??????? (lambán?, “I take”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, US) IPA^(key): /?s?l?b?l/, [?s?l?b?]
• Hyphenation: syl?la?ble

Noun

syllable (plural syllables)

1. (linguistics) A unit of human speech that is interpreted by the listener as a single sound, although syllables usually consist of one or more vowel sounds, either alone or combined with the sound of one or more consonants; a word consists of one or more syllables.

   Meronyms: onset, nucleus, coda, rime
2. The written representation of a given pronounced syllable.
3. A small part of a sentence or discourse; anything concise or short; a particle.
   • 1622, Richard Hooker, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, 60:

     Then let them cast backe their eies unto former generations of men, and marke what was done in the prime of the World, Seth, Enoch, Noah, Sem, Abraham, Job, and the rest that lived before any syllable of the Law of God was written, did they not sinne as much as we doe in every action not commanded?

   • 1623, William Shakespeare, The Life of King Henry the Eighth Act 5 Scene 1:

     Is the King's hand and tongue; and The Archbishop
     Is the King's hand and tongue; and who dare speak
     One syllable against him?

Derived terms

Related terms

• syllabus

Translations

Verb

syllable (third-person singular simple present syllables, present participle syllabling, simple past and past participle syllabled)

1. (transitive, poetic) To utter in syllables.
   • 1645, John Milton, “A Mask Presented At Ludlow-Castle, 1634. etc.” [Comus] in Poems, 84:

     Begin to throng A thousand fantasies
     Begin to throng into my memory
     Of calling shapes, and beckning shadows dire,
     And airy tongues, that syllable mens names
     On Sands, and Shoars, and desert Wildernesses.

Translations

Further reading

• syllable on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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)