dán

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Czech

Pronunciation

Participle

dán

  1. masculine singular passive participle of dát

Hungarian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key):
  • Audio(file)
  • Rhymes: -aːn

Adjective

dán (not comparable)

  1. Danish (of or pertaining to Denmark, its people or language)

Declension

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative dán dánok
accusative dánt dánokat
dative dánnak dánoknak
instrumental dánnal dánokkal
causal-final dánért dánokért
translative dánná dánokká
terminative dánig dánokig
essive-formal dánként dánokként
essive-modal dánul —
inessive dánban dánokban
superessive dánon dánokon
adessive dánnál dánoknál
illative dánba dánokba
sublative dánra dánokra
allative dánhoz dánokhoz
elative dánból dánokból
delative dánról dánokról
ablative dántól dánoktól
non-attributive
possessive - singular 		dáné dánoké
non-attributive
possessive - plural 		dánéi dánokéi

Noun

dán (plural dánok)

  1. Danish (person)
  2. (singular only) Danish (language)

Declension

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative dán dánok
accusative dánt dánokat
dative dánnak dánoknak
instrumental dánnal dánokkal
causal-final dánért dánokért
translative dánná dánokká
terminative dánig dánokig
essive-formal dánként dánokként
essive-modal — —
inessive dánban dánokban
superessive dánon dánokon
adessive dánnál dánoknál
illative dánba dánokba
sublative dánra dánokra
allative dánhoz dánokhoz
elative dánból dánokból
delative dánról dánokról
ablative dántól dánoktól
non-attributive
possessive - singular 		dáné dánoké
non-attributive
possessive - plural 		dánéi dánokéi
Possessive forms of dán
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. dánom dánjaim
2nd person sing. dánod dánjaid
3rd person sing. dánja dánjai
1st person plural dánunk dánjaink
2nd person plural dánotok dánjaitok
3rd person plural dánjuk dánjaik

Derived terms

Expressions

Related terms

Further reading

  • dán in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
  • dán in Ittzés, Nóra (ed.). A magyar nyelv nagyszótára (‘A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published A–ez as of 2024)

Anagrams

Irish

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Old Irish dán m (“gift, skill, poem”), from Proto-Celtic *dānus, from Proto-Indo-European *déh₃nom. Cognate with Latin dōnum (“gift”).

Noun

dán m (genitive singular dáin, nominative plural dánta or dána)

  1. (literary) gift, offering
  2. (literary) craft, calling: allotted task
  3. art, faculty, art of poetry
  4. poem
  5. (one's) lot, fate
Declension
Declension of dán

First declension

Bare forms:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative dán dánta
Vocative a dháin a dhánta
Genitive dáin dánta
Dative dán dánta

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an dán na dánta
Genitive an dáin na ndánta
Dative leis an dán

don dán

leis na dánta

  • Alternative plural: dána
Derived terms

Etymology 2

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

Noun

dán m (genitive singular dáin, nominative plural dáin)

  1. halter (for cow's horns)
Declension
Declension of dán

First declension

Bare forms:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative dán dáin
Vocative a dháin a dhána
Genitive dáin dán
Dative dán dáin

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an dán na dáin
Genitive an dáin na ndán
Dative leis an dán

don dán

leis na dáin

Further reading

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
dán dhán ndán
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Northern Sami

Determiner

dán

  1. accusative/genitive singular of dát

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *dānus, from Proto-Indo-European *déh₃nom. Cognate with Latin dōnum (“gift”).

Pronunciation

Noun

dán m (genitive dáno, nominative plural dánai)

  1. gift
    • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 28c2
      Ní rïat na dánu díadi ara n-indeb domunde.
      Let them not sell the divine gifts for the worldly wealth.

Declension

Masculine u-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative dán dánL dánaH, dánai
Vocative dán dánL dánu
Accusative dánN dánL dánu
Genitive dánoH, dánaH dánoL, dánaL dánaeN
Dative dánL dánaib dánaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
dán dán
pronounced with /ð(ʲ)-/ 		ndán
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

Verb

dán • (旦, 演, 諫, 𬖭, 𬖷)

  1. to paste, to glue
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