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4-letter words (1 found)

FANE,

3-letter words (7 found)

ANE,EAN,FAE,FAN,FEN,NAE,NEF,

2-letter words (9 found)

AE,AN,EA,EF,EN,FA,FE,NA,NE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 18 words from fane according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of fane

fane afne fnae nfae anfe nafe faen afen fean efan aefn eafn fnea nfea fena efna nefa enfa anef naef aenf eanf neaf enaf

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Definitions and meaning of fane

fane

Alternative forms

  • faine (obsolete)
  • phane (obsolete)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /feɪn/
  • Rhymes: -eɪn
  • Homophones: feign, foehn, fain (archaic)

Etymology 1

From Middle English fane, from Old English fana (“cloth, banner”), from Proto-West Germanic *fanō, from Proto-Germanic *fanô (“cloth, flag”), from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂n- (“to weave; something woven; cloth, fabric, tissue”). Doublet of fanon and vane.

Noun

fane (plural fanes)

  1. (obsolete) A weathercock, a weather vane.
  2. (obsolete) A banner, especially a military banner.

Etymology 2

From Middle English fane (“temple”), from Latin fanum (“temple, place dedicated to a deity”). Doublet of fanum.

Noun

fane (plural fanes)

  2. A temple or sacred place.
    • 1888, H. P. Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine, Volume 1: Cosmogenesis, Quest Books 1993 page 458:
      And this ideal conception is found beaming like a golden ray upon each idol, however coarse and grotesque, in the crowded galleries of the sombre fanes of India and other Mother lands of cults.
Related terms
  • profane

Anagrams

  • NEFA, neaf

French

Etymology

From faner.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fan/

Noun

fane f (plural fanes)

  1. (archaic) dry leaf
  2. (cooking) the leaves attached to vegetables, but which are themselves not usually consumed, such as those of carrot, radishes and cauliflowers
  3. (horticulture, agriculture) the leaves of any vegetable which is not itself a leaf vegetable, and which are not usually attached to the edible part, such as those of potatoes, tomatoes and beans

Further reading

  • “fane”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Galician

Verb

fane

  1. inflection of fanar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Middle English

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old English fana.

Alternative forms

  • fanu, fone

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈfaːn(ə)/

Noun

fane

  1. (rare) A particular kind of white-coloured iris.
Descendants
  • Yola: fane

References

  • “fāne, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-12-31.

Etymology 2

Inherited from Old English fana, from Proto-West Germanic *fanō, from Proto-Germanic *fanô; doublet of fanon.

Alternative forms

  • phane, vaane, vane

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈfaːn(ə)/
  • (Southern) IPA(key): /ˈvaːn(ə)/

Noun

fane (plural fanes)

  1. A flag or gonfalon; a piece of fabric or other visible structure used for identification on the field.
  2. A flag borne on sea-going vessels, especially a long triangular one.
  3. A weathervane or weathercock (used to indicate changeableness)
Descendants
  • English: fane, vane
  • Scots: fane, faan, thane, phane
References
  • “fāne, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-12-31.

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Latin fānum, from Proto-Italic *faznom.

Alternative forms

  • phane

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈfaːn(ə)/

Noun

fane

  1. (rare) A temple, especially that used to worship Roman gods.
Descendants
  • English: fane
References
  • “fāne, n.(3).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-12-31.

Ternate

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈfa.ne]

Verb

fane (Jawi فاني)

  1. (intransitive) to come up
  2. (intransitive) to rise
  3. (intransitive, of the moon) to wax
    ara ifane futu nyagimoi ― the tenth night of the waxing moon

Conjugation

References

  • Frederik Sigismund Alexander de Clercq (1890) Bijdragen tot de kennis der Residentie Ternate, E.J. Brill
  • Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English fane, from Old English fana.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɸɔːn/

Noun

fane

  1. iris

References

  • Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 108

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