Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word van. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in van.
Definitions and meaning of van
van
Pronunciation
enPR: văn, IPA(key): /væn/
Rhymes: -æn
Etymology 1
Short for caravan.
Noun
van (pluralvans)
A covered vehicle used for carrying goods or people, usually roughly cuboid in shape, longer and higher than a car but smaller than a truck/lorry.
(Britain) An enclosed railway vehicle for transport of goods.
(Britain, dated) A light wagon, either covered or open, used by tradesmen and others for the transportation of goods.
(aerospace) A large towable vehicle equipped for the repair of structures that cannot easily be moved.
1959, Western Aerospace (volume 39, page 46)
Designed to be fully mobile and self-contained, the complete equipment includes an air-conditioned van containing all necessary electronic gear and a flat bed trailer in which missiles, jet engines and other large assemblies may be cleaned.
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
van (third-person singular simple presentvans, present participlevanning, simple past and past participlevanned)
(transitive) To transport in a van or similar vehicle (especially of horses).
(Internet slang, used in passive voice) Of law enforcement: to arrest (not necessarily in a van; derived from party van).
2011 The hackers hacked: main Anonymous IRC servers invaded
One Anon explained the reason for this, saying: "As for the domains, they were transferred to Ryan after some of us got vanned so he can keep the network up. What he did certainly wasn't the plan." (Getting "vanned" refers to getting picked up by the police.)
2012 FBI names, arrests Anon who infiltrated its secret conference call
He later told CW that he had been "v&" or "vanned" by the police, and he expressed surprise that the police showed him detailed transcripts of his conversations.
2013 Redditor Confesses to Murder with Meme, Gets Doxed by Other Redditors, Deletes His Account and Disappears
But not before someone supposedly forwarded all the information onto the FBI. In a last-ditch effort to avoid getting "vanned," Naratto tried to put the memie back in the bottle
2015 13-year-old credited with hacking CIA director’s AOL account gives bizarre, possibly final interview
The hacker says he thinks he is about to be v&, or “vanned,” meaning being raided by law enforcement, sometime soon.
2016 Teen Allegedly Behind CIA, FBI Breaches: 'They're Trying to Ruin My Life.'
On Wednesday night, Motherboard spoke to the teenager accused of being Cracka. "I got fucking v&," he told Motherboard, using "v&," the slang for "vanned," or getting arrested. (At this point, the arrest had not been made public.)
2017 Dark Ops: An Anonymous Story page 8
Commander X: Yep, so now you all know how I got vanned. And you just met the snitch who did it to me.
Derived terms
v&
See also
lorry
transit (UK)
truck
Etymology 2
Shortening of vanguard.
Noun
van (pluralvans)
Clipping of vanguard.
As for the guides, they were debarred from the pleasure of discourse, the one being placed in the van, and the other obliged to bring up the rear.
Etymology 3
From Cornish.
Noun
van (pluralvans)
(mining) A shovel used in cleansing ore.
Verb
van (third-person singular simple presentvans, present participlevanning, simple past and past participlevanned)
(mining) To wash or cleanse, as a small portion of ore, on a shovel.
(Can we find and add a quotation of Raymond to this entry?)
Etymology 4
From Latinvannus(“a van, or fan for winnowing grain”): compare Frenchvan and Englishfan, winnow. Doublet of fan.
Noun
van (pluralvans)
A fan or other contrivance, such as a sieve, for winnowing grain.
A wing with which the air is beaten.
Related terms
vane
References
van at OneLook Dictionary Search
van in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
AVN, NAV, NVA, nav
Afrikaans
Etymology
From Dutchvan(“from; of”).
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /fan/
Preposition
van
of
from
See also
se
Particle
van
(used with a following definite article) some of (the)
Van die wêreld se beste wyne kom van hierdie streek af.
Some of the world’s best wines are from this region.
Ons het met van die belangrikste politieke leiers gespreek.
We have spoken to some of the most important political leaders.
Antillean Creole
Etymology
From Frenchvent.
Noun
van
air
wind
breath
intestinal gas
Catalan
Pronunciation
(Balearic, Valencian) IPA(key): /ˈvan/
(Central) IPA(key): /ˈban/
Verb
van
third-person plural present indicative form of anar
Czech
Pronunciation
IPA(key): [ˈvan]
Noun
vanm inan
(archaic, poetic)breeze (light, gentle wind)
Related terms
Noun
vanf
genitive plural of vana
Further reading
van in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
van in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
Danish
Etymology 1
From Old Norsevanr (plvanir(“one of two groups of gods in Norse mythology”)).
From Middle Dutchvan, from Old Dutchfan(“from”), from Proto-Germanic*fanē, from Proto-Indo-European*h₂poneh₁(“from”), from Proto-Indo-European*h₂epo, *h₂pó(“off, of”). Cognate with Old Saxonfana, fan(“from”), Old Frisianfan, fon(“from”), Old High Germanfona, fon(“from”).
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /vɑn/
(Northern)[fɑn]
(Suriname)[fan]
Hyphenation: van
Rhymes: -ɑn
Preposition
van
of (possession, property)
of (general association)
by, of (creator)
from (origin)
from (starting point of a movement or change)
from (starting point in time)
from, off (removal of something from off something else)
of, out of, from, with (cause)
of, out of, with (material or resource)
of, out of, among (out of a larger whole; partitive)
from, was, formerly (indicating a change in price)
(colloquial)like(quotative (used to introduce direct speech))
Ik dacht van hé wat gek. — I thought, hey, how strange.
Inflection
Derived terms
Descendants
Afrikaans: van
Adverb
van
of, from
Ik neem er tien van. — I’ll take ten of them.
from
Ik vertrek van daar. — I’ll start from there.
by, from
Ik word er gek van. — It drives me crazy.
Men wordt daar sloom van. — It turns one numb.
of, about
Wat zegt u daar van? — What do you say about that?
Ik weet daar niks van. — I don’t know anything about that.
Derived terms
daarvan
ervan
Noun
vanm (pluralvansorvannen)
A surname or nickname beginning with the preposition van.
Any surname.
Synonyms:achternaam, familienaam
See also
uit
Finnish
Etymology
< Englishvan
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /ˈʋæn/, [ˈʋæn]
Noun
van
(informal) van (type of automobile)
Declension
Synonyms
pakettiauto(for transportation of goods)
pikkubussi(for transportation of people)
French
Etymology
Latinvannus
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /vɑ̃/
Noun
vanm (pluralvans)
a winnowing basket
Further reading
“van” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Galician
Etymology
From a variant of Old Portuguesevão, from Latinvānus(“empty”)
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun
vanm (pluralvans)
(agriculture) winnowing machine
Haitian Creole
Etymology
From Frenchvent(“wind”)
Noun
van
wind
Hungarian
Etymology
From Old Hungarian vagyon. See Hungarian volt.
Forms beginning with v- are from Proto-Finno-Ugric*wole-(“to be”). Cognate with Mansiо̄луӈкве(ōluňkve), Finnisholla and Estonianolema. Compare inflected forms such as volt, volna, való and Old Hungarian vola or vala. The root in present tense (vagy-) is result of palatization: /vɒl/ > /vɒʎ/ > /vɒj/ > /vɒɟ/.
Forms beginning with l- are from Proto-Finno-Ugric*le-(“to become”). Cognate with Finnishlienee(potential of olla), Karelianlienöy(potential of olla), Northern Samileat.
Pronunciation
IPA(key): [ˈvɒn]
Rhymes: -ɒn
Verb
van
(copulative) to be, to exist
Synonym:létezik
Antonym:nincs
to have; someone (-nak/-nek) has something (-ja/-je/-a/-e)
there is
to be (auxiliary verb indicating a type of passive voice along with the adverbial participle form of the main verb)
1846, Arany János, Toldi,[2], canto 6, stanza 13:
Usage notes
Omission of the present-tense third-person singular and plural forms:
When used with an adjective (qualification) or a noun (whether with the definite or the indefinite article), i.e. when it answers the question who? or what? (including what …… like?) or which?, the (indicative present third-person) forms van and vannak are omitted:
On the other hand, if is or are answers the question where? or how?, these verb forms will appear as usual:
It also appears if van/vannak is the focus of the sentence. This happens when the sentence means that the property described by the adjective (e.g. strength) reaches or exceeds some specified level and this is emphasized by the speaker. In this case, the adjective is preceded by a word like olyan(“such”), annyira(“that much”), elég(“enough”).
The forms other than van and vannak are always used.
In other senses, all forms are used:
With adverbs and adverbial participles (suffixed -va/-ve)
The negative form is nincs or nincsen and sincs or sincsen (the latter two expressing 'is not … either').
If the predicate includes an adjective or a noun, that is, if it answers the question who, what etc. (see above), the third person present forms are omitted again, only nem remains:
(exist, there is, to have): (have is expressed by there is in Hungarian):
Conjugation
Derived terms
vanni
vanogat
(With verbal prefixes):
Further reading
(all verb senses): van in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962.
([dialectal] synonym of the noun vagyon): van in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962.
Interlingua
Adjective
van (comparativeplus van, superlativele plus van)
vain, futile
vain, worthless
vain, conceited
Manx
Etymology
Borrowed from Englishvan.
Noun
vanf (genitive singularvan, pluralvannyn)
van(vehicle)
Synonyms
carr
Middle Dutch
Etymology
From Old Dutchfan, from Proto-Germanic*fanē.
Preposition
van
of
from (a place, person)
from (a time)
out of
from, out of, because of
Descendants
Dutch: van
Afrikaans: van
Limburgish: ven
Further reading
“van”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929) , “van (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page I
Mòcheno
Contraction
van
va + an, from a, of a
References
“van” in Cimbrian, Ladin, Mòcheno: Getting to know 3 peoples. 2015. Servizio minoranze linguistiche locali della Provincia autonoma di Trento, Trento, Italy.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology 1
From Old Norsevanr.
Adjective
van (masculine and femininevan, neutervant, definite singular and pluralvane)