fán

See also: Appendix:Variations of "fan"

Hungarian

Etymology

fa +‎ -n

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈfaːn]
• Hyphenation: fán
• Rhymes: -aːn

Noun

fán

1. superessive singular of fa

Irish

Pronunciation

• (Munster, Connacht) IPA^(key): /fˠɑːn̪ˠ/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /fˠæːn̪ˠ/

Etymology 1

From Old Irish fán; see fána (“slope, depression”).

Noun

fán m (genitive singular fáin)

1. Alternative form of fána (“downward slope, declivity; depression, hollow; droop”)
2. straying, wandering, vagrancy
3. turning aside, averting
4. sparsity

Declension

Declension of fán (first declension, no plural)

bare forms case singular nominative fán vocative a fháin genitive fáin dative fán forms with the definite article case singular nominative an fán genitive an fháin dative leis an bhfán don fhán

Derived terms

• fán-aisteoir m (“busker”)
• fánach (“wandering, straying, vagrant; aimless, purposeless; vain, futile; casual, haphazard; occasional, rare; trivial, insignificant; sparse”, adjective)
• fánaíocht f (“(act of) wandering, vagrancy; (act of) rambling, roving; hiking; casualness, haphazardness; aimlessness, purposelessness; diminishment, decline; drift”)
• fánaí m (“wanderer, vagrant; casual worker; potterer; odd, chance, casual, person”)
• ridireacht fáin f (“knight-errantry”)

Related terms

• fánaí f (“wandering, vagrancy; casualness, haphazardness; scarceness, rareness”)

Etymology 2

Alternative forms

• fá’n (superseded)
• faoin (standard language)

Contraction

fán

1. (Ulster) Contraction of fá an (“about the”).

Mutation

Mutated forms of fán

radical	lenition	eclipsis
fán	fhán	bhfán

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “fán”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “fán”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “fán”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2025

Mandarin

Alternative forms

• fan — nonstandard

Romanization

fán (fan², Zhuyin ㄈㄢˊ)

1. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 凡, 凢
2. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 勫
3. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 墦
4. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 忛
5. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 憣
6. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 柉
7. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 棥, 樊
8. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 橎
9. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 氾
10. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 瀪
11. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 瀿
12. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 煩 / 烦
13. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 燔
14. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 璠
15. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 番
16. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 礬 / 矾
17. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 籵
18. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 緐 / 繁
19. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 繁
20. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 繙 / 𬙆
21. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 羳
22. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 膰
23. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 舧
24. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 蕃
25. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 薠 / 𮐚
26. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 藩
27. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 蘩
28. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 蠜
29. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 襎
30. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 蹯
31. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 釩 / 钒
32. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 鐇 / 𫔍
33. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 鷭 / 𬸪

Noone

Verb

fán

1. fear

References

• R. Blench, Beboid Comparative