You can make 4 words from nan according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.
All 3 letters words made out of nan
nan ann nna nna ann nan
Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word nan. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in nan.
Definitions and meaning of nan
nan
Translingual
Etymology
From Mandarin閩南語/闽南语(mǐnnányǔ, “Southern Min language”).
Symbol
nan
(international standards)ISO 639-3 language code for Min Nan.
Etymology 1
From Nan, pet form of the formerly very common female given names Anne and Agnes. As a nursemaid and grandmother, a clipping of earlier nana, from nanny under the probable influence of mama, also from Nan. Compare Mary.
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /næn/
Rhymes: -æn
Homophone: NaN
Noun
nan (pluralnans)
(obsolete)Synonym of maid: a servant girl. [1599]
(slang, obsolete)Synonym of nancy: an effeminate male homosexual. [1670]
(UK, endearing)Synonym of nursemaid. [1940]
(British, Ireland, Australia, Canada, endearing)Synonym of grandmother. [1955]
We had my nan over for Christmas dinner.
Derived terms
Etymology 2
See at naan.
Pronunciation
(Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /næn/, /nɑːn/
(General American) IPA(key): /næn/, /nɑn/
Noun
nan (pluralnans)
Alternative spelling of naan
Anagrams
ANN, Ann, Ann., ann, ann.
Acehnese
Etymology
From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian*ŋajan.
Noun
nan
name (word or phrase indicating a particular person, place, class or thing)
References
2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.
Akan
Noun
nan
leg
Further reading
Kotey, Paul A. (1998). Twi-English/English-Twi Dictionary. New York: Hippocrene Books. →ISBN
Bikol Central
Alternative forms
nang
Etymology
Compare Waray-Warayngan.
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /ˈnan/, [ˈn̪an̪]
Conjunction
nan (Basahan spellingᜈᜈ᜔)
(Sorsogon) and
Synonyms:asin, saka, buda, at, sagkod, pagkan
Catalan
Etymology
Borrowed from Latinnānus, from Ancient Greekνᾶνος(nânos).
Pronunciation
IPA(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencian)[ˈnan]
Adjective
nan (femininenana, masculine pluralnans, feminine pluralnanes)
(relational) dwarf
Derived terms
planeta nan
Noun
nanm (pluralnans, femininenana)
(mythology) dwarf (a member of a race from folklore)
dwarf (a person of short stature, usually as the result of a genetic condition)
(folklore) in Catalan celebrations, someone who wears a large papier-mâché head
Derived terms
nanisme
Further reading
“nan” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
chapter nan, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
“nan” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
“nan” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Franco-Provençal
Pronunciation
(Savoyard dialect) IPA(key): /ˈnɑ/
(Bressan dialect) IPA(key): /ˈnɔ̃/
Interjection
nan
no
Adverb
nan
no
Antonyms
ouè
French
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /nɑ̃/
Adverb
nan
Informal spelling of non ; nah, nope
Antonym:voui
Fula
Particle
nan
marks the preterite tense
References
Oumar Bah, Dictionnaire Pular-Français, Avec un index français-pular, Webonary.org, SIL International, 2014.
Haitian Creole
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /nã/
Article
nan
the (definite article)
Usage notes
This word is used only when the preceding word is singular and ends with a nasal consonant.
See also
a
an
la
lan
yo
yon
Preposition
nan
in
Japanese
Romanization
nan
Rōmaji transcription of なん
Lombard
Etymology
Akin to Italiannano, ultimately from Greek νᾶνος.
Noun
nan
dwarf
Lower Sorbian
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /nan/
Noun
nanm pers (diminutivenancycko)
father
Synonym:wóśc(literary)
Declension
Coordinate terms
maś(“mother”)
syn(“son”)
źowka(“daughter”)
Further reading
Muka, Arnošt (1921, 1928) chapter nan, in Słownik dolnoserbskeje rěcy a jeje narěcow (in German), St. Petersburg, Prague: ОРЯС РАН, ČAVU; Reprinted Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag, 2008
Starosta, Manfred (1999) chapter nan, in Dolnoserbsko-nimski słownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch (in German), Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag
Makolkol
Noun
nan
mother
Further reading
Joshua Arlo, Indigenous language almost extinct, 2 September 2016, LoopPNG
Malecite-Passamaquoddy
Etymology
From Proto-Algonquian*nya·θanwi.
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /ˈnan/, [ˈnan˧˦]
Numeral
nan (initial rootnan-)
five (in counting)
References
Passamaquoddy-Maliseet language portal
LeSourd, Philip S. (1993) Accent and Syllable Structure in Passamaquoddy, New York: Garland Publishing
Mandarin
Romanization
nan
Nonstandard spelling of nān.
Nonstandard spelling of nán.
Nonstandard spelling of nǎn.
Nonstandard spelling of nàn.
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.
Northern Kurdish
Etymology 1
Akin to Persianنان(nân), See there for more.
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /nɑːn/
Noun
nanm
bread
food
Synonym:xwarin
Declension
Etymology 2
Verb
nan
to put in, to set, to place
to fuck, to copulate, to have sex with
Old English
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic*nain, from Proto-Germanic*nainaz, equivalent to ne(“not”) + ān(“one”).
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /nɑːn/
Determiner
nān
no; not a, not one, not any
c. 992, Ælfric, "The Assumption of St. John the Apostle"
c. 992, Ælfric, "The Assumption of St. John the Apostle"
c. 992, Ælfric, "The Assumption of St. John the Apostle"
c. 992, Ælfric, "The Nativity of St. Clement the Martyr"
c. 995, Ælfric, Extracts on Grammar in English
Pronoun
nān
no one, nobody; none
late 10th century, Ælfric, "The Nativity of St. Clement the Martyr"
Declension
Descendants
Middle English: noon
Geordie English: nyen
English: none
Scots: nane
Old Frisian
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /ˈnaːn/
Determiner
nān
Alternative form of nēn
Pronoun
nān
Alternative form of nēn
References
Bremmer, Rolf H. (2009) An Introduction to Old Frisian: History, Grammar, Reader, Glossary, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN
Papiamentu
Etymology
The third person plural pronoun nan(“they”) and the overall plural noun suffix -nan are unique for Papiamentu and cannot be found in any other language. According to Clements and Parkvall the pronoun nan and its derived suffix -nan were introduced into the language just in the 1700s because of the grown need for a plural marking. Apparently before the introduction the need for a plural marking was not felt. Just like in other South American languages the suffix originated in the form "kas-nan" literally "house-they" (ac Lenz).
Compare the Curripaco Arawak suffix -na and the Dutch suffix -en.
Searches are being undertaken to find the African connections with the words "iran", "ene", "na", "nan", "inen" and "ane" in the languages Bini, Kwa, Anabonese, Bantu, Kimbundu, Angolar, Fa d'Ambu, Edo and Saotome in the African countries of Sao Tomé, Angola, Equatorial Guinea and Nigeria (see Bartens and Schuchardt). All very improbably.
Pronoun
nan
they, third person plural
their
See also
-nan
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from Latinnanus.
Noun
nanm (pluralnani)
dwarf
Declension
Scottish Gaelic
Etymology 1
From Old Irishdïa n-(“if, when”) with irregular change of initial d- to n-. Cognate with Irishdá(“if”).
Conjunction
nan
if (subjunctive)
whether (subjunctive)
Usage notes
Before words beginning with b, f, m or p, the form nam is used instead.
Only used in the conditional tense, otherwise ma is used.
The negative form is mura.
References
G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “1 día n-”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “na’n (na’m)”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language[2], Stirling, →ISBN, page 260
Etymology 2
Univerbation of an(“in”) + an(“their”).
Preposition
nan (+ dative)
in their
Bha iad nan cadal. ― They were sleeping. (literally, “They were in their sleep.”)
Inflection
Etymology 3
Article
nan
inflection of an(“the”):
genitive plural preceding a consonant (excluding b-, f-, m-, p-)
genitive plural preceding a vowel
Declension
Turkish
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkishنان(nan), from Persianنان(nân).
Noun
nan (definite accusativenanı, pluralnanlar)(archaic)
bread
food
References
Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN
Upper Sorbian
Noun
nanm pers
father
Declension
Further reading
“nan” in Soblex
Vietnamese
Etymology
According to Ferlus (2009), from *t-rn-aːɲ, with nominalizer -rn- infixed into Proto-Vietic*taːɲ (whence đan(“to weave”)).
Formationally indentical but independently developed are Khmu [Rook] tʰrnaːɲ ("material used for weaving") (Suwilai, 2002) and Proto-West-Bahnaric *trnaːɲ ("thread"), whence Nyaheunnnaːɲ ("thread").
Pronunciation
(Hà Nội) IPA(key): [naːn˧˧]
(Huế) IPA(key): [naːŋ˧˧]
(Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA(key): [naːŋ˧˧]
Noun
(classifiersợi) nan
bamboo tape (for basketwork); bamboo slat (of a paper fan)
Wolof
Adverb
nan
(interrogative) how
See also
naka
Zazaki
Alternative forms
non
nun
Etymology
Akin to Persianنان(nân, “bread”), see there for more.