different between tian vs xian

English

Etymology

French, from Provençal tian, from Old Occitan, from Ancient Greek ??????? (t?ganon), variant of ??????? (tág?non, “frying pan”).

Noun

tian (plural tians)

1. An oval cooking-pot, traditionally used in Provence.
2. A Provençal dish of layered baked vegetables.

Anagrams

• NAIT, TINA, Tain, Tani, Tina, ain't, ani?, anti, anti-, nait, tain, tina

Esperanto

Pronunciation

Adjective

tian

1. accusative singular of tia

Adverb

tian

1. Obsolete form of tiam.

French

Etymology

From Provençal tian, from Old Occitan, from Ancient Greek ??????? (t?ganon), variant of ??????? (tág?non, “frying pan”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tj??/

Noun

tian m (plural tians)

1. tian, cooking-pot

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• nait, naît
• niât
• tain, 'tain

Ilocano

Etymology

From Proto-Philippine *tian, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tian, from Proto-Austronesian *tiaN

Noun

tián

1. belly; abdomen
2. uterus; womb

Ligurian

Etymology

French, from Provençal, from Old Occitan, from Ancient Greek ??????? (t?ganon), variant of ??????? (tág?non, “frying pan”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tja?/

Noun

tian m (please provide plural)

1. tian, cooking-pot

Malay

Etymology

From Proto-Malayic *tian, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tian, from Proto-Austronesian *tiaN.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ti.an/
• Rhymes: -ian, -jan, -an

Noun

tian (Jawi spelling ?????, plural tian-tian, informal 1st possessive tianku, impolite 2nd possessive tianmu, 3rd possessive tiannya)

1. uterus
2. (Java) the lower abdomen in a pregnant woman

Derived terms

Descendants

• Indonesian: tian

References

• "tian" in Kamus Dewan, Fourth Edition, Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, ?ISBN, 2005.
• “tian” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

Mandarin

Romanization

tian

1. Nonstandard spelling of ti?n.
2. Nonstandard spelling of tián.
3. Nonstandard spelling of ti?n.
4. Nonstandard spelling of tiàn.

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.

Old Dutch

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *teuhan.

Verb

tian

1. to pull
2. to raise (a child)
3. to feed

Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Derived terms

• anttian
• *gitian
  • ?tgitian

Descendants

• Middle Dutch: tiën
  • Dutch: tijgen

Further reading

• “t?an”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

Quotations

• 10th century, Psalm 55:22:

  Uuirp ouir herrin sorga thina inde he thi tion sal. in ne sal giuon an iuuon uuankilheide rehlikin.

  Cast thy burden upon the LORD, and he shall sustain thee: he shall never suffer the righteous to be moved.
  Note: the original is lost and only a fragment of a copy of a lost copy survives; according to a surviving list of glosses from the lost copy, ‘tion’ was spelled ‘tian’ in a now lost part of the text.

Old Frisian

Alternative forms

• t?ne, t?ne

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *tehun.

Numeral

ti?n

1. ten

Descendants

• North Frisian:

  Föhr-Amrum: tjiin

  Helgoland: tain

  Mooring: tin

  Wiedingharde: tiin

• Saterland Frisian: tjoon
• West Frisian: tsien

Swedish

Noun

tian

1. definite singular of tia

Anagrams

• Tina, anti-, inat, inta, tina

Tagalog

Noun

tián

1. Obsolete spelling of tiyan

English

Etymology 1

From the pinyin romanization of Chinese ? (xiàn).

Alternative forms

• hsien (archaic)

Noun

xian (plural xians)

1. (China) An administrative subdivision of imperial, republican, and communist China roughly equivalent to counties, now distinguished from the more urban "districts" (qu).

   Synonym: county

Etymology 2

An alternative capitalization of Xian.

Noun

xian (plural xians)

1. (sometimes derogatory or offensive) Alternative form of Xian: Christian.

Adjective

xian (not comparable)

1. (sometimes derogatory or offensive) Alternative form of Xian: Christian.

References

• What does 'xian' mean?

Anagrams

• Axin, Naxi, axin

Mandarin

Romanization

xian

1. Nonstandard spelling of xi?n.
2. Nonstandard spelling of xián.
3. Nonstandard spelling of xi?n.
4. Nonstandard spelling of xiàn.

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.