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han

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English han, contraction of haven.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hæn/, /heɪn/
• (unstressed) IPA^(key): /hən/
• Rhymes: -æn, -eɪn

Verb

han

1. (obsolete) plural simple present of have

Etymology 2

From Korean 한(恨) (han), from Middle Chinese 恨 (MC honH).

Noun

han (uncountable)

1. Sorrowful resentment, as a part of the Korean cultural identity.

Alternative forms

• haan

Translations

Anagrams

• NAH, Nah., anh., nah, ahn, HNA

Albanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [hɑn]

Noun

han m (plural hane, definite hani, definite plural hanet)

1. khan
2. (archaic) roadside shelter for travellers and their animals: roadside hostelry, caravanserai, inn
3. (derogatory) fleabag hotel
4. messy place with no control of who comes and who leaves, regular flophouse

Basque

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Navarro-Lapurdian) /han/ [hãn]
• IPA^(key): (Southern) /an/ [ãn]
• Rhymes: -an
• Hyphenation: han

Adverb

han (not comparable)

1. there (away from the speaker and the listener)

See also

• hemen, hor

Further reading

• “han”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy] (in Basque), Euskaltzaindia [Royal Academy of the Basque Language]
• “han”, in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], Euskaltzaindia, 1987–2005

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈan]
• Rhymes: -an

Verb

han

1. third-person plural present indicative of haver

Central Franconian

Alternative forms

• hann (most dialects)

Etymology

From Middle High German hān, from Old High German havēn, northern variant of habēn, from Proto-West Germanic *habbjan.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hɑn/, [ɦɑn]

Verb

han (irregular, third-person singular present hat, past tense hauw, past participle jehad, past subjunctive häu)

1. (Ripuarian and Kölsch, auxiliary, with a past participle) to have (forms the perfect and past perfect tense)
2. (same dialects, transitive) to have; to own (to possess, have ownership of; to possess a certain characteristic)
3. (same dialects, transitive) to have; to hold (to contain within itself/oneself)

4. (same dialects, transitive) to have, get (to obtain, acquire)
5. (same dialects, transitive) to get (to receive)
6. (same dialects, transitive) to have (to be afflicted with, suffer from)
7. (same dialects, transitive, of units of measure) to contain, be composed of, equal

8. (same dialects, impersonal, with het or 't) there be, there is, there are
9. (same dialects, with 't and mit) to be occupied with, to like, to be into

10. (same dialects, with 't and uvver) to talk about

Conjugation

Derived terms

Descendants

• Hunsrik: hon
• Kölsch: han
• Luxembourgish: hunn

Further reading

• “han” in d'r nuie Kirchröadsjer Dieksiejoneer 2nd ed., 2017.

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɦan]

Noun

han f

1. genitive plural of hana

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse hann (dative hánum).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /han/, [hæn]

Pronoun

han (genitive hans, accusative ham)

1. he

See also

References

• “han,2” in Den Danske Ordbog

Noun

han c (singular definite hannen, plural indefinite hanner)

1. male, he

Declension

References

• “han,1” in Den Danske Ordbog

Galician

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /an/

Verb

han

1. third-person plural present indicative of haber

German

Verb

han

1. (archaic or dialectal) alternative form of haben

Gun

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɣã̀/

Noun

hàn

1. song

   Synonym: òhàn

Derived terms

Gwich'in

Etymology

Cognate with Tlingit héen (“water, river”).

Noun

han

1. river

Japanese

Romanization

han

1. Rōmaji transcription of はん

Kaingang

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /han/, [hadn]

Verb

han (singular)

1. (transitive) to do; to make
2. (auxiliary) forms verbs from nouns

References

• Ursula Gojtéj Wiesemann (2011) “han”, in Dicionário Kaingang-Português Português-Kaingang, 2nd edition (overall work in Portuguese), Curitiba: Editora Esperança

Kankanaey

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhan/ [ˈhʌn]
• Rhymes: -an
• Syllabification: han

Article

han

1. pronunciation variant of san

Synonyms

Khasi

Noun

han

1. duck

Mandarin

Romanization

han

1. nonstandard spelling of hān
2. nonstandard spelling of hán
3. nonstandard spelling of hǎn
4. nonstandard spelling of hàn

Usage notes

• Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.

Middle English

Etymology

Contracted infinitive and plural present of haven.

Verb

han

1. (transitive) alternative form of haven - Piers Plowman

Middle High German

Alternative forms

• haben

Etymology

Inherited from Old High German habēn, from Proto-West Germanic *habbjan.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (before 13^th CE) /ˈhaːn/

Verb

hān (irregular, third-person singular present hāt, past tense habete, past participle gehabet, auxiliary hān)

1. to have

Conjugation

Descendants

• Alemannic German: haa, ha, heen, hoh, hä, häbä, hè

  Swabian: hau

• Bavarian: hoom, hobm, hobn, hom, ho, hob

  Cimbrian: haban, hen, håm

  Mòcheno: hom

  Northern Bavarian: [hɔm]

• Central Franconian: han, hann (most dialects)
  • Hunsrik: hon
  • Kölsch: han
  • Luxembourgish: hunn
• East Central German:

  Erzgebirgisch: hamm

  Upper Saxon German: ham, hom

  Vilamovian: hon

• East Franconian:
• German: haben

  Berlinerisch: ham

  Ruhrpöttisch: habn

• Rhine Franconian: hann, hawwe (Vorderpfälzisch), hunn (northern Palatine)
  • Frankfurterisch: [havə]; [hɑvə], [hɔvə] (older)
  • Palatine German: hann, hawwe, hunn
  • Pennsylvania German: hawwe
  • Upper Hessian: hu, hunn
• Yiddish: האָבן (hobn)

References

• Benecke, Georg Friedrich, Müller, Wilhelm, Zarncke, Friedrich (1863) “han”, in Mittelhochdeutsches Wörterbuch: mit Benutzung des Nachlasses von Benecke, Stuttgart: S. Hirzel

Nguôn

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /haːn¹/

Numeral

han

1. two

Norman

Etymology

From Old Norse hampr.

Noun

han m (plural hans)

1. (Jersey) galangal

North Frisian

Alternative forms

• hån (Mooring)
• Hen (Sylt)

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *hanjō.

Noun

han f (plural hanen)

1. (Föhr-Amrum) hen, chicken

   Coordinate term: höön (“rooster”)

Northern Kurdish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hɑːn/

Adjective

han

1. this

   Synonym: ev

References

• Chyet, Michael L. (2003) “han”, in Kurdish–English Dictionary‎^[2], with selected etymologies by Martin Schwartz, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, page 231

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse hann.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /han/
• Homophones: hann, hand
• Rhymes: -an

Pronoun

han

1. he, him

See also

References

• “han” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse hann.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hɑnː/

Pronoun

han

1. he, him, it (third person singular, masculine)

Usage notes

Han is used to refer not only to masculine persons, but any masculine noun. E.g.: Bilen er fin. Eg likar han. - The car is nice. I like it.

In some dialects, han may precede a male given name or a difinite singular masculine noun. E.g: Kor vart det tå han Erik? (“Where did Erik disappeared?”)

See also

References

• “han” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse hann.

Pronoun

han

1. he / it (masculine nominative pronoun)

Descendants

• Danish: han

Old Dutch

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *hą̄han.

Verb

hān

1. (intransitive) to hang
2. (transitive) to hang

Conjugation

Descendants

• Middle Dutch: hâen
  • Dutch: hangen
    • Afrikaans: hang
    • Berbice Creole Dutch: hanggi
    • Negerhollands: hang, haṅ
    • → Sranan Tongo: anga

Further reading

• “hān”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /xɑːn/, [hɑːn]

Noun

hān f

1. a projecting stone that forms part of a boundary

Declension

Strong ō-stem:

References

• Joseph Bosworth, T. Northcote Toller (1898) “hán”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Old Swedish

Alternative forms

• ᚼᛆᚿ

Etymology

From Old Norse hann.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhanː/

Pronoun

han

1. he

   han ær mīn vin ― he is my friend

Declension

Descendants

• Swedish: han

Portuguese

Adjective

han (invariable)

1. Han Chinese (referring to the largest ethnic group indigenous to China)

Noun

han m (plural han or hans)

1. Han Chinese (member of the largest ethnic group indigenous to China)

Rohingya

Alternative forms

• (Arabic) حَنۡ
• (Bengali) হান
• (Myanmar) ဟန်
• (Hanifi) 𐴇𐴝𐴕 (han)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [han]

Noun

han

1. ear

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish خان (han), from Persian خان (xân, “caravanserai”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂wes- (“to dwell”).

Noun

han n (plural hanuri)

1. inn, caravanserai

Declension

References

• “han”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2025

Russenorsk

Etymology

Inherited from Norwegian Nynorsk han (“he”).

Pronunciation

Unknown. Possible examples:

• IPA^(key): /han/, /haɲ/ (Norwegian accent)
• IPA^(key): /xan/, /xanʲ/ (Russian accent)

There is no evidence of palatalization of the /n/-sound, although it should be there at least in the Northern Norwegian pronunciation.

There is also no known examples of the Russian pronunciation, where the letter h may be pronounced as /g/ (see gaf and gall).

Pronoun

han

1. he

References

• Ingvild Broch, Ernst H. Jahr (1984) Russenorsk: Et pidginspråk i Norge [Russenorsk: A pidgin language in Norway], 2 edition, Oslo: Novus Forlag, pages 113, 119

Samoan Plantation Pidgin

Etymology

From English hand.

Noun

han

1. arm
2. hand

Usage notes

Only used to refer to a human; for an animal, the equivalent parts are all labelled as lek.

References

• Mosel, Ulrike (1980) Tolai and Tok Pisin: the influence of the substratum on the development of New Guinea Pidgin (Pacific Linguistics; Series B, no. 73)‎^[3], Canberra: Australian National University, →ISBN
• Peter, Mühlhäusler (1983) “Samoan Plantation Pidgin English and the origin of New Guinea Pidgin”, in Ellen Woolford and William Washabaugh, editors, The Social Context of Creolization, Ann Arbor: Karoma, pages 28-76

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish خان (han), from Persian خان (xân, “caravanserai”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /xâːn/
• Rhymes: -âːn

Noun

hȃn m (Cyrillic spelling ха̑н)

1. inn

Declension

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈan/ [ˈãn]
• Rhymes: -an
• Syllabification: han

Verb

han

1. third-person plural present indicative of haber

Swedish

Alternative forms

• 'an (eye dialect)

Etymology

From Old Swedish han, from Old Norse hann, from Proto-Norse *hānaʀ.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hanː/, (unstressed, postconsonantal) /an/
• Rhymes: -an
• Homophone: hann

Pronoun

han (genitive hans)

1. he, the third person singular, masculine, nominative case.

2. (nonstandard in writing, common in speech) him

   Synonym: (standard) honom

Usage notes

See the usage notes for honom.

Declension

See also

• hann (past tense of hinna – a homophone)
• hon (“she”)

References

• han in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• han in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• han in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Tetum

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kaən, compare Malay makan.

Verb

han

1. to eat

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English hand.

Noun

han

1. hand
2. arm
3. foreleg (of an animal)
4. wing (of a bird)
5. branch (of a tree)
6. branch (figurative)

Derived terms

• hanwara (“tributary”)
• pepa bilong klinim han (“sanitizing wipe”)

References

• Mosel, Ulrike (1980) Tolai and Tok Pisin: the influence of the substratum on the development of New Guinea Pidgin (Pacific Linguistics; Series B, no. 73)‎^[4], Canberra: Australian National University, →ISBN
• Peter, Mühlhäusler (1983) “Samoan Plantation Pidgin English and the origin of New Guinea Pidgin”, in Ellen Woolford and William Washabaugh, editors, The Social Context of Creolization, Ann Arbor: Karoma, pages 28-76

Turkish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hɑn/

Etymology 1

From Ottoman Turkish خان (han), from Old Anatolian Turkish خان (ḫān), from Proto-Turkic *kagan. Doublet of kağan and hakan.

Noun

han (definite accusative hanı, plural hanlar)

1. khan
2. a honorific title used after the names of some male rulers

Declension

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Ottoman Turkish خان (han), from Persian خان (xân, “caravanserai”).

Noun

han (definite accusative hanı, plural hanlar)

1. caravanserai, inn

Declension

Derived terms

Further reading

• “han”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
• Ayverdi, İlhan (2010) “han”, in Misalli Büyük Türkçe Sözlük, a reviewed and expanded single-volume edition, Istanbul: Kubbealtı Neşriyatı
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “han”, in Nişanyan Sözlük

Turkmen

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [xaːn]

Noun

han (definite accusative hany, plural hanlar)

1. khan

Derived terms

• oguzhan
• garahan
• hantama

Further reading

• “han” in Enedilim.com
• “han” in Webonary.org

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [haːn˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [haːŋ˧˧]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [haːŋ˧˧]

Etymology 1

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

Noun

(classifier cây) han • (𧄊)

1. Dendrocnide

   Synonym: mán

Derived terms

Etymology 2

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

Adjective

han • (𨫪)

1. appeared to begin to rust

Etymology 3

From Proto-Vietic *haːɲ (“to ask”).

Verb

han • (𪡗, 𠻃, 㗍, 漢, 嘆, 罕)

1. (archaic) to ask

   Synonym: hỏi

Derived terms

• hỏi han

Anagrams

• anh, nha

Yoruba

Alternative forms

• ọ̀n (Ekiti)
• ghàn (SEY)

Etymology 1

Compare with Ifè ŋà, Olukumi ghàn, Itsekiri ghàn and possibly Igala ñà, from Proto-Yoruba *ɣɪ̃ã̀, *ŋɪ̃ã̀ , from Proto-Edekiri *ɣɪ̃ã̀, *ŋɪ̃ã̀, ultimately from Proto-Yoruboid *ŋɪ̃ã̀.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hã̀/

Verb

hàn

1. to appear, show; to be visible

Derived terms

• fi hàn

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hã̀/

Verb

hàn

1. to scribble

Derived terms

• hàntúrú

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hã̀/

Verb

hàn

1. (Igbomina) to pluck leaves from a plant

   Synonym: já

Etymology 4

Compare with Ifè ŋɔ́, Olukumi ghọn, Igala ñwọ̀, proposed to be derived from Proto-Yoruba *ɣɔ̃̀, *ŋɔ̃̀, from Proto-Edekiri *ɣɔ̃̀, *ŋɔ̃̀, ultimately from Proto-Yoruboid *ŋʷɔ̃̀, Proto-Yoruboid *wɔ̃̀. See Proto-Bantu *gon, Igbo gwọ, Urhobo ahọnre

Alternative forms

• ọ̀n (Ekiti)
• ghọ̀n (Ondo)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hã̀/

Verb

hàn

1. to snore

   Synonym: han-an-run

Derived terms

• han-an-run

Etymology 5

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hã̄/

Verb

han

1. to scream loudly

   Synonym: ké

Etymology 6

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hã́/

Verb

hán

1. (Igbomina) alternative form of wọ́n (“to catch something in the air”)

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