different between volcano vs akan

English

Alternative forms

• vulcano (obsolete)

Etymology

From Italian vulcano and French volcan, from Latin Vulcanus (“Vulcan, the Roman god of fire and metalworking”). Doublet of bolcane.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /v?l?ke?n??/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /v?l?ke?no?/, /v?l?ke?no?/

Noun

volcano (plural volcanoes or volcanos)

1. A vent or fissure on the surface of a planet (usually in a mountainous form) with a magma chamber attached to the mantle of a planet or moon, periodically erupting forth lava and volcanic gases onto the surface.
2. A kind of firework producing an upward plume of sparks.

Hypernyms

• mountain

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• crater
• lava
• lava flow
• magma
• vent

Verb

volcano (third-person singular simple present volcanos or volcanoes, present participle volcanoing, simple past and past participle volcanoed)

1. to erupt; to burst forth
   • 1951, Phyllis Hambledon, Nobody's Child

     She shrank back, the words volcanoed, words that stabbed again, and yet again

   • 2012, George Pratt, ?Peter Lambrou, ?John David Mann, Code to Joy: The Four-Step Solution to Unlocking Your Natural State of Happiness

     Startled, you look up at the horizon just in time to see a gigantic plume of ash and dust volcanoing up into the sky and spreading out to form a gigantic cloud that will persist for days, weeks, perhaps years.

Further reading

• volcano on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Alak

Noun

akan

1. (Alak) woman

Alternative forms

• kan (Harak)

Further reading

• Theraphan L. Thongkum, The place of Lawi, Harak and Tariang within Bahnaric (1997), in The Mon-Khmer Studies Journal, volume 27

Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??k?n/, [??k?n]
• Rhymes: -?k?n
• Syllabification: a?kan

Etymology 1

Noun

akan

1. Genitive singular form of akka.

Etymology 2

From Akan Akan.

Alternative forms

• akani

Noun

akan

1. Akan (West African language spoken mainly in Ghana and Ivory Coast)

Declension

Anagrams

• -kaan, kana

Indonesian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.kan/
• Rhymes: -kan

Adverb

akan

1. will
2. about to
3. going to

Preposition

akan

1. regarding, concerning, as for

Further reading

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

Malay

Alternative forms

• kan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.kan/
• Rhymes: -kan
• Hyphenation: a?kan

Adverb

akan (Jawi spelling ????)

1. will

2. about to
3. going to

Derived terms

• akan-akan
• seakan-akan
• mengakan
• mengakankan
• keakanan

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

akan m (definite singular akanen, uncountable)

1. Akan language

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

akan m (definite singular akanen, uncountable)

1. Akan language

Portuguese

Noun

akan m (uncountable)

1. The Akan language.

Quechua

Verb

akan

1. third-person singular present indicative of akay

Spanish

Alternative forms

• acano

Noun

akan m (uncountable)

1. Akan (Niger-Congo language)
2. Akan (language group spoken in Ghana)