fán

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Hungarian

Etymology

fa +‎ -n

Pronunciation

Noun

fán

  1. superessive singular of fa

Irish

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Old Irish fán; see fána (slope, depression).

Noun

fán m (genitive singular fáin)

  1. Alternative form of fána (downward slope, declivity; depression, hollow; droop)
  2. straying, wandering, vagrancy
  3. turning aside, averting
  4. sparsity
Declension
Declension of fán (first declension, no plural)
bare forms
case singular
nominative fán
vocative a fháin
genitive fáin
dative fán
forms with the definite article
case singular
nominative an fán
genitive an fháin
dative leis an bhfán
don fhán
Derived terms
  • fán-aisteoir m (busker)
  • fánach (wandering, straying, vagrant; aimless, purposeless; vain, futile; casual, haphazard; occasional, rare; trivial, insignificant; sparse, adjective)
  • fánaíocht f ((act of) wandering, vagrancy; (act of) rambling, roving; hiking; casualness, haphazardness; aimlessness, purposelessness; diminishment, decline; drift)
  • fánaí m (wanderer, vagrant; casual worker; potterer; odd, chance, casual, person)
  • ridireacht fáin f (knight-errantry)
  • fánaí f (wandering, vagrancy; casualness, haphazardness; scarceness, rareness)

Etymology 2

Alternative forms

Contraction

fán

  1. (Ulster) Contraction of an (about the).

Mutation

Mutated forms of fán
radical lenition eclipsis
fán fhán bhfán

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

Mandarin

Alternative forms

Romanization

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Verb

fán

  1. fear

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