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Definitions and meaning of van

van

Pronunciation

  • enPR: văn, IPA(key): /væn/
  • Rhymes: -æn

Etymology 1

Short for caravan.

Noun

van (plural vans)

  1. 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.
  2. (Britain) An enclosed railway vehicle for transport of goods.
  3. (UK, dated) A light wagon, either covered or open, used by tradesmen and others for the transportation of goods.
  4. (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 present vans, present participle vanning, simple past and past participle vanned)

  1. (transitive) To transport in a van or similar vehicle (especially of horses).
  2. (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 (plural vans)

  1. 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 (plural vans)

  1. (mining) A shovel used in cleansing ore.

Verb

van (third-person singular simple present vans, present participle vanning, simple past and past participle vanned)

  1. (mining) To wash or cleanse, as a small portion of ore, on a shovel.

Etymology 4

From Latin vannus (“a van, or fan for winnowing grain”): compare French van and English fan, winnow. Doublet of fan.

Noun

van (plural vans)

  1. A fan or other contrivance, such as a sieve, for winnowing grain.
  2. 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 Dutch van (“from; of”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fan/

Preposition

van

  1. of
  2. from

See also

  • se

Particle

van

  1. (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 French vent.

Noun

van

  1. air
  2. wind
  3. breath
  4. intestinal gas

Catalan

Alternative forms

  • varen (auxiliary)

Pronunciation

  • (Balearic, Valencian) IPA(key): /ˈvan/
  • (Central) IPA(key): /ˈban/

Verb

van

  1. third-person plural present indicative form of anar
  2. (auxiliary, with infinitive) third-person plural present indicative form of anar

Czech

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈvan]
  • Hyphenation: van

Noun

van m inan

  1. (archaic, poetic) breeze (light, gentle wind)

Declension

Related terms

Noun

van f

  1. 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 Norse vanr (pl vanir (“one of two groups of gods in Norse mythology”)).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /vaːn/, [væːˀn]

Noun

van c (singular definite vanen, plural indefinite vaner)

  1. one of the Vanir
Inflection

Etymology 2

From English van.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /vaːn/, [væːn]

Noun

van c (singular definite vanen, plural indefinite vaner)

  1. van
Inflection

Etymology 3

From Old Norse vanr (“wont, accustomed”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /van/, [van]

Adverb

van

  1. (dated) pleje van – nurse, take care of
Usage notes
  • Has been replaced by vant ("usual", "customary").

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch van, from Old Dutch fan (“from”), from Proto-Germanic *fanē, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂poneh₁ (“from”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂epo, *h₂pó (“off, of”). Cognate with Old Saxon fana, fan (“from”), Old Frisian fan, fon (“from”), Old High German fona, fon (“from”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /vɑn/
  • (Northern) [fɑn]
  • (Suriname) [fan]
  • Hyphenation: van
  • Rhymes: -ɑn

Preposition

van

  1. of (possession, property)
  2. of (general association)
  3. by, of (creator)
  4. from (origin)
  5. from (starting point of a movement or change)
  6. from (starting point in time)
  7. from, off (removal of something from off something else)
  8. of, out of, from, with (cause)
  9. of, out of, with (material or resource)
  10. of, out of, among (out of a larger whole; partitive)
  11. from, was, formerly (indicating a change in price)
  12. (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
  • Berbice Creole Dutch: fan
  • Javindo: fan
  • Jersey Dutch: vān, fān
  • Negerhollands: van, fan, fa
    • → Virgin Islands Creole: fam
  • Skepi Creole Dutch: fan

Adverb

van

  1. of, from
    Ik neem er tien van. — I’ll take ten of them.
  2. from
    Ik vertrek van daar. — I’ll start from there.
  3. by, from
    Ik word er gek van. — It drives me crazy.
    Men wordt daar sloom van. — It turns one numb.
  4. 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

van m (plural vans or vannen)

  1. A surname or nickname beginning with the preposition van.
  2. Any surname.
    Synonyms: achternaam, familienaam

See also

  • uit

Finnish

Etymology

< English van

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈʋæn/, [ˈʋæn]

Noun

van

  1. (informal) van (type of automobile)

Declension

Synonyms

  • pakettiauto (for transportation of goods)
  • pikkubussi (for transportation of people)

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /vɑ̃/

Etymology 1

Latin vannus

Noun

van m (plural vans)

  1. a winnowing basket

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English van

Noun

van m (plural vans)

  1. a horse trailer
    • Adolphe de Neuter, Mémoires d'un entraîneur, volume 1: La casaque rose, Paris: Imprimerie Kapp, 1925, p. 145

Further reading

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

Galician

Etymology

From a variant of Old Portuguese vão, from Latin vānus (“empty”)

Adjective

van m (feminine singular va, masculine plural vans, feminine plural vas)

  1. empty, devoid of content, containing only air
  2. useless, ineffective
  3. (of a person) vacuous, trivial-minded

Noun

van m (plural vans)

  1. waist
  2. empty, vacant

Verb

van

  1. third-person plural present indicative of ir

Gallo

Etymology

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

Noun

van m (plural vans)

  1. (agriculture) winnowing machine

Haitian Creole

Etymology

From French vent (“wind”)

Noun

van

  1. wind

Hungarian

Etymology

From Old Hungarian vagyon. See Hungarian volt.

  • Forms beginning with v- are from Proto-Finno-Ugric *wole- (“to be”). Cognate with Mansi о̄луӈкве (ōluňkve), Finnish olla and Estonian olema. 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 Finnish lienee (potential of olla), Karelian lienöy (potential of olla), Northern Sami leat.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈvɒn]
  • Rhymes: -ɒn

Verb

van

  1. (copulative) to be, to exist
    Synonym: létezik
    Antonym: nincs
  2. to have; someone (-nak/-nek) has something (-ja/-je/-a/-e)
  3. there is
  4. to be (auxiliary verb indicating a type of passive voice along with the adverbial participle form of the main verb)
    • 1846, János Arany, Toldi,[2], canto 6, stanza 13, prose translation by Anton N. Nyerges:[3]

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. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
  • ([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. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

Interlingua

Adjective

van (comparative plus van, superlative le plus van)

  1. vain, futile
  2. vain, worthless
  3. vain, conceited

Manx

Etymology

Borrowed from English van.

Noun

van f (genitive singular van, plural vannyn)

  1. van (vehicle)

Synonyms

  • carr

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch fan, from Proto-Germanic *fanē.

Preposition

van

  1. of
  2. from (a place, person)
  3. from (a time)
  4. out of
  5. from, out of, because of

Descendants

  • Dutch: van
    • Afrikaans: van
    • Berbice Creole Dutch: fan
    • Javindo: fan
    • Jersey Dutch: vān, fān
    • Negerhollands: van, fan, fa
      • → Virgin Islands Creole: fam
    • Skepi Creole Dutch: fan
  • 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

  1. 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 Norse vanr.

Adjective

van (masculine and feminine van, neuter vant, definite singular and plural vane)

  1. being used to (doing) something
Related terms
  • vand
  • ven, venn
  • venja

Etymology 2

From Old Norse vanr m.

Noun

van m (definite singular vanen, indefinite plural vaner or vanar, definite plural vanene or vanane)

  1. (Norse mythology) one of the Vanir

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Dutch van (“of, from”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *fanē. Doublet of von.

Preposition

van

  1. Used in Dutch surnames.

References

  • “van” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Anagrams

  • NAV, nav

Polish

Etymology

From English van.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /van/

Noun

van m inan

  1. van (covered vehicle)

Declension

Further reading

  • van in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • van in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Pronunciation

  • Homophones: Van, vã (Brazil)
  • Rhymes: -ɐ̃

Noun

van f (plural vans)

  1. (Brazil) van (a covered vehicle used for carrying goods)
    Synonym: furgão

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin vānus, Italian vano.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /van/

Adjective

van m or n (feminine singular vană, masculine plural vani, feminine and neuter plural vane)

  1. vain
  2. futile
  3. idle
  4. fruitless
  5. vainglorious

Declension

Derived terms

  • în van

Related terms

  • vanitate

See also

  • inutil, infructuos, vanitos
  • în zadar
  • zadarnic

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *vъnъ

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʋân/

Conjunction

vȁn (Cyrillic spelling ва̏н)

  1. except

Preposition

vȁn (Cyrillic spelling ва̏н) (+ genitive case)

  1. outside, out
  2. out of

Adverb

vȃn (Cyrillic spelling ва̑н)

  1. out, outside, outdoors

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin vadunt, third-person plural present indicative of vadō (“to go”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈban/, [ˈbãn]

Verb

van

  1. Second-person plural (ustedes) present indicative form of ir.
  2. Third-person plural (ellos, ellas, also used with ustedes?) present indicative form of ir.

Noun

van m (plural vanes)

  1. van (vehicle)

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse vanr, from Proto-Germanic *wanaz, from Proto-Indo-European *wāno-.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /vɑːn/

Adjective

van (comparative vanare, superlative vanast)

  1. accustomed to, used to, having the habit to
  2. experienced, adept

Antonyms

  • ovan

Derived terms

  • med van hand

Related terms

  • vana
  • vänja
  • ovana

Anagrams

  • anv., nav

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from English van.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ban/, [bɐn]

Noun

van

  1. van (covered vehicle)

Further reading

  • “van” in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila: Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2018.

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

  • (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [vaːn˧˧]
  • (Huế) IPA(key): [vaːŋ˧˧]
  • (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA(key): [vaːŋ˧˧] ~ [jaːŋ˧˧]

Etymology 1

Verb

van • (呅, 𠹚, 𠺺)

  1. to beg, to implore
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Borrowed from French valve.

Noun

van

  1. valve

Etymology 3

Borrowed from French valse.

Noun

van

  1. waltz

Zou

Noun

van

  1. sky

References

  • http://www.languageinindia.com/feb2013/zouphonologyfinal.pdf

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  • VAMPLATE, a hand guard.
    (source: Collins Scrabble Dictionary)