bàn

See also: Appendix:Variations of "ban"

Mandarin

Alternative forms

• ban — nonstandard

Pronunciation

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Romanization

bàn (ban⁴, Zhuyin ㄅㄢˋ)

1. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 伴
2. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 办
3. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 半
4. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 埾
5. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 姅
6. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 怑
7. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 扮
8. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 拌
9. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 湴
10. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 瓣
11. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 秚
12. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 絆 / 绊
13. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 绊
14. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 辠
15. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 辦 / 办
16. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 辫
17. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 鉡 / 𰽰
18. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 靽

Middle Vietnamese

Etymology

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

Verv

bàn

1. to examine, to consider

Descendants

• Vietnamese: bàn

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish bán, from Proto-Celtic *bānos (“white”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂- (“shine”); Greek φᾱνός (phānós, “bright”); Sanskrit भानु (bhānú, “light”); further away is English bale (bale-fire).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /paːn/

Adjective

bàn (genitive singular masculine bàin, genitive singular feminine bàine, nominative plural bàna, comparative bàine)

1. white, pale, fair

   Synonyms: fionn, geal

   taigh bàn ― a white house

2. (hair color) fair, blond

   Tha falt bàn air Seumas. ― James has blond hair.

Declension

Declension of bàn (type I adjective)

	masculine	feminine	plural
nominative	bàn	bhàn	bàna
genitive	bhàin	bàine	bàna
dative	bàn	bhàin	bàna
vocative	bhàin	bhàn	bàna

Derived terms

• comhachag-bhàn f (“snowy owl”)
• corra-bhàn f (“stork”)
• còta-bàn m (“petticoat”)
• iolair-bhàn f (“sea eagle”)
• lèine bhàn f (“white tissue lining eggshell”)
• talamh bàn m (“fallow ground”)

See also

Colors in Scottish Gaelic · dathan (layout · text)

bàn, geal	glas	dubh
dearg; ruadh	orains; donn	buidhe; donn
uaine	uaine	gorm
liath; glas	liath	gorm
purpaidh; guirmean	pinc; purpaidh	pinc

References

• Edward Dwelly (1911) “bàn”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎, 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “bán”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Tày

Etymology

From Vietnamese bàn.

Pronunciation

• (Thạch An – Tràng Định) IPA^(key): [ɓaːn˧˨]
• (Trùng Khánh) IPA^(key): [ɓaːn˩]

Verb

bàn

1. to discuss; to decide

   bàn đuổi căn ― to discuss with each other

References

• Léopold Michel Cadière (1910) Dictionnaire Tày-Annamite-Français [Tày-Vietnamese-French Dictionary]‎ (in French), Hanoi: Impressions d'Extrême-Orient

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [ʔɓaːn˨˩]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [ʔɓaːŋ˦˩]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [ʔɓaːŋ˨˩]

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Etymology 1

Sino-Vietnamese word from 盤 (“plate; board game”).

Noun

(classifier chiếc, cái) bàn

1. (furniture) a table
2. (board games) Synonym of ván (“a game”)

Affix

bàn

1. a board (long, wide and thin piece of wood or other material)

   bàn thờ

   an altar

   (literally, “a worship board”)

   bàn tính

   an abacus

   (literally, “a calculation board”)

   bàn cầu cơ

   a Ouija board

   bàn cờ/phím

   a board-game board/keyboard

Derived terms

• bàn cờ
• bàn thờ

Descendants

• → Tai Dam: ꪝꪱꪙ

Classifier

bàn

1. (sports, games) indicates a single score or goal

   bàn thắng

   a goal

   thua 2 bàn

   to lose by two goals

Etymology 2

This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “consider 拌 as in 拌嘴 (bànzuǐ, “to bicker”) or 搬 as in 搬口 (“to tell stories”) or 盤 as in 盤問 / 盘问 (pánwèn) and 盤查 / 盘查 (pánchá, “to interrogate”). Or non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 辦 (SV: biện), as proposed by Baxter & Sagart.”

Verb

bàn • (𡂑)

1. to discuss; to talk over

Derived terms

• bàn bạc
• bàn cãi
• bàn tán

Wiyot

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /βàn/
• Hyphenation: bàn

Noun

bàn

1. name

References

• Karl V. Teeter (1964) The Wiyot Language, University of California press, page 81