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Mandarin
Pronunciation
Romanization
dàn (dan4, Zhuyin ㄉㄢˋ)
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 亳
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 但
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 僤/𫢸
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 啖
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 啗
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 啿
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 噉
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 嚪/𫫦
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 帎
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 弹
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 弾
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 彈/弹
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 惐
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 憚/惮
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 憺
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 担
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 擒
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 旦
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 暺
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 柦
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 氮
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 沊
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 淡
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 潬/𬈁
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 潭
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 澴
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 澹
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 狚
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 疍
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 疶
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 癉/瘅
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 癚
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 矲/𰦜
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 禫
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 窞
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 腅
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 膵
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 舕
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 萏
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 蛋
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 蜏
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 蜑
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 蟹
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 觛
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 訑/𫍙
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 詷/𫍣
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 誕/诞
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 诞
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 贅/赘
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 贊/赞
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 赖
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 鉭/钽
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 霮
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 餢
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 饏
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 馾
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 駳
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 髧
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 鴠/𱉗
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 黮
Scottish Gaelic
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Old Irish dán m (“gift, bestowal, endowment, present; skill in applying the principles of a special science; science; skill applied to the material or subject-matter of art; artistic faculty, art; especially the poetic faculty; the art of poetry; poem, song, verse, rhyme; an industrial pursuit of a skilled nature; a craft, trade, business, office, calling, profession; a profession as represented by its practisers collectively, the members of a trade as a body; an occupation, function, business; an allotted task; a payment”).
Noun
dàn m (genitive singular dàin, plural dàin or dàna or dàintean)
- destiny, fate; decree, predestination
- poem, song; verse
- treasure
- work
Derived terms
Etymology 2
From Middle Irish dána, from Old Irish dánae, according to Stokes, from the root of sense 1 above.
Adjective
dàn
- bold, daring, intrepid, resolute
- confident, audacious, presumptuous, forward, impudent
References
- Edward Dwelly (1911) “dàn”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “dán”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Vietnamese
Etymology
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Pronunciation
Verb
dàn • (𢵧)
- to put in order, to arrange
- to display
See also