clan

English

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clan

Wikipedia

Etymology

Borrowed from Irish clann (“offspring, children of the family”) and Scottish Gaelic clann, both from Old Irish cland, borrowed from Old Welsh plant, itself borrowed from Latin planta (“shoot, offspring”). Doublet of plant.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /klæn/

• Audio (US)

  (file)

• Homophone: Klan
• Rhymes: -æn

Noun

clan (plural clans)

1. (anthropology) A group of people all descended from a common ancestor, in fact or belief, especially when the exact genealogies are not known.

   Hyponym: descent group

   Coordinate term: lineage

2. A traditional social group of families in the Scottish Highlands having a common hereditary chieftain
3. Any group defined by family ties with some sort of political unity.
   • 1923, P.G. Wodehouse, The Inimitable Jeeves:

     As a rule, you see, I'm not lugged into Family Rows. On the occasions when Aunt is calling to Aunt like mastodons bellowing across primeval swamps and Uncle James's letter about Cousin Mabel's peculiar behaviour is being shot round the family circle... the clan has a tendency to ignore me.

4. (video games) A group of players who habitually play on the same team in multiplayer games.
5. A badger colony.

Derived terms

Descendants

• → Catalan: clan
• → Danish: klan
• → Dutch: clan
• → French: clan
  • → Turkish: klan
• → Galician: clan
• → German: Clan
• → Italian: clan
• → Norwegian Bokmål: klan
• → Norwegian Nynorsk: klan
• → Polish: klan
• → Russian: клан (klan)
• → Portuguese: clan, clã
• → Spanish: clan
• → Swedish: klan

Translations

See also

• clan lab

Anagrams

• Lanc, NLCA, NaCl

Catalan

Noun

clan m (plural clans)

1. clan

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English clan, from Scottish Gaelic clann (“progeny, race”), from Old Irish cland, from Old Welsh plant, from Latin planta (“shoot, offspring”). As such, it is a doublet of plant (“plant, flora”).

Pronunciation

• (Netherlands) IPA^(key): /klɛn/

• Audio

  (file)

• Hyphenation: clan
• Rhymes: -ɛn

Noun

clan m (plural clans, diminutive clannetje n)

1. clan, kin group, esp. in relation to the Scottish Highlands or Scotland in general
2. (gaming) a group of gamers playing on the same team, a clan

Descendants

• Afrikaans: clan
• → Indonesian: klan

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English clan, from Scottish Gaelic clann (“progeny, race”), from Old Irish cland, from Old Welsh plant, from Latin planta (“shoot, offspring”), and therefore a doublet of plante.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /klɑ̃/

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

clan m (plural clans)

1. clan

Descendants

• → Turkish: klan

Further reading

• “clan”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.

Galician

Etymology

from Irish clann (“offspring, children of the family”) and Scottish Gaelic clann, both from Old Irish cland, borrowed from Old Welsh plant, itself borrowed from Latin planta (“shoot, offspring”). Doublet of planta.

Noun

clan m (plural clans)

1. clan

   Synonym: tribo

Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English clan. Ultimately a doublet of pianta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈklan/, /ˈklɛn/
• Rhymes: -an, -ɛn
• Hyphenation: clàn

Noun

clan m (invariable)

1. clan
2. team
3. gang

References

Portuguese

Noun

clan m (plural clans)

1. Alternative spelling of clã

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French clan.

Noun

clan n (plural clanuri)

1. clan

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English clan.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈklan/
• Rhymes: -an
• Syllabification: clan

Noun

clan m (plural clanes)

1. clan

Further reading

• “clan”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014