han

From Middle English han, contraction of haven.

• IPA^(key): /hæn/, /heɪn/

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• (unstressed) IPA^(key): /hən/
• Rhymes: -æn, -eɪn

han

1. (obsolete) plural simple present of have
   • 1579, Edmund Spenser, The Shepheardes Calender:

     They han the fleece, and eke the flesh;

   • 1614, William Browne, The Shepheards Pipe:

     Since that ye han had my virginitie,

   • 1748, James Thomson, The Castle of Indolence:

     And his alluring Baits suspected han.

   • 1976, “Howfen Wakes” (track 1), in Howfen Wakes‎, performed by The Houghton Weavers:

     Ee lads 'an ya fowt? Nay, we'n not fowt yet.

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From Korean 한(恨) (han), from Middle Chinese 恨 (MC honH).

han (uncountable)

1. Sorrowful resentment, as a part of the Korean cultural identity.

• haan

• NAH, Nah., anh., nah, ahn, HNA

• IPA^(key):

han m (plural hane, definite hani, definite plural hanet)

1. khan
2. (archaic) roadside shelter for travellers and their animals: roadside hostelry, caravanserai, inn
3. (derogatory) fleabag hotel
4. messy place with no control of who comes and who leaves, regular flophouse

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• IPA^(key): (Southern) /an/,
• IPA^(key): (Northern) /han/,

han (not comparable)

1. there (away from the speaker and the listener)

• hemen, hor

• “han”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy], Euskaltzaindia
• “han”, in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], Euskaltzaindia, 1987–2005

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia)
• Rhymes: -an

han

1. third-person plural present indicative of haver

• hann (most dialects)

From Middle High German hān, from Old High German havēn, northern variant of habēn, from Proto-West Germanic *habbjan.

• IPA^(key): /hɑn/,

han (irregular, third-person singular present hat, past tense hauw, past participle jehad, past subjunctive häu)

1. (Ripuarian and Kölsch, auxiliary, with a past participle) to have (forms the perfect and past perfect tense)
2. (same dialects, transitive) to have; to own (to possess, have ownership of; to possess a certain characteristic)
3. (same dialects, transitive) to have; to hold (to contain within itself/oneself)

   Uur hat doa Floep va.

   You are afraid of that.

   (literally, “You have fear of that.”)

4. (same dialects, transitive) to have, get (to obtain, acquire)
5. (same dialects, transitive) to get (to receive)
6. (same dialects, transitive) to have (to be afflicted with, suffer from)
7. (same dialects, transitive, of units of measure) to contain, be composed of, equal

   Ing Menuut hat 60 Sekonde.

   There are 60 seconds in one minute.

   (literally, “One minute has 60 seconds.”)

8. (same dialects, impersonal, with het or 't) there be, there is, there are
9. (same dialects, with 't and mit) to be occupied with, to like, to be into

   Iech han't nit zoeë mit Höng.

   I'm not a great fan of dogs.

   (literally, “I don't have it that much with dogs.”)

10. (same dialects, with 't and uvver) to talk about

    Vier hauwe't juus uvver dienge Vrunk.

    We were just talking about your friend.

    (literally, “We just had it about your friend.”)

• Hunsrik: hon
• Kölsch: han
• Luxembourgish: hunn

• “han” in d'r nuie Kirchröadsjer Dieksiejoneer 2nd ed., 2017.

• IPA^(key):

han f

1. genitive plural of hana

From Old Norse hann (dative hánum).

• IPA^(key): /han/,

han (genitive hans, accusative ham)

1. he

• “han,2” in Den Danske Ordbog

han c (singular definite hannen, plural indefinite hanner)

1. male, he

• “han,1” in Den Danske Ordbog

• IPA^(key): /an/

han

1. third-person plural present indicative of haber

han

1. (archaic or dialectal) Alternative form of haben
   • 1812, Brothers Grimm, “Kinder- und Haus-Märchen”, in Der gescheidte Hans, page 138:

     Hansens Mutter spricht: „wohin Hans?“ Hans antwortet: „zur Grethel.“ – „Machs gut Hans“ – „Schon gut machen, Adies, Mutter“ – Hans kommt zur Grethel: „guten Tag Grethel.“ – „Guten Hans: was bringst du Gutes?“ – „Bring nichts, gegeben han.“

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• IPA^(key): /ɣã̀/

hàn

1. song

   Synonym: òhàn

Cognate with Tlingit héen (“water, river”).

han

1. river

han

1. Rōmaji transcription of はん

• IPA^(key): /han/,

han (singular)

1. (transitive) to do; to make
2. (auxiliary) forms verbs from nouns

   asĩg han

   to sneeze

• (Standard Kankanaey) IPA^(key): /ˈhan/
• Rhymes: -an
• Syllabification: han

han

1. Pronunciation variant of san.

han

1. duck

han

1. Nonstandard spelling of hān.
2. Nonstandard spelling of hán.
3. Nonstandard spelling of hǎn.
4. Nonstandard spelling of hàn.

• Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.

Contracted infinitive and plural present of haven.

han

1. (transitive) Alternative form of haven - Piers Plowman.
   • (Can we date this quote?), Geoffrey Chaucer, (Please provide the book title or journal name):

     Him thanken all, and thus they han an end

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• haben

Inherited from Old High German habēn, from Proto-West Germanic *habbjan.

• IPA^(key): (before 13^th CE) /ˈhaːn/

hān (irregular, third-person singular present hāt, past tense habete, past participle gehabet, auxiliary hān)

1. to have

• Alemannic German: haa, ha, heen, hoh, hä, häbä, hè

  Swabian: hau

• Bavarian: hoom, hobm, hobn, hom, ho, hob

  Cimbrian: haban, hen, håm

  Mòcheno: hom

  Northern Bavarian:

• Central Franconian: han, hann (most dialects)
  • Hunsrik: hon
  • Kölsch: han
  • Luxembourgish: hunn
• East Central German:

  Erzgebirgisch: hamm

  Upper Saxon German: ham, hom

  Vilamovian: hon

• East Franconian:
• German: haben

  Berlinerisch: ham

  Ruhrpöttisch: habn

• Rhine Franconian: hann, hawwe (Vorderpfälzisch), hunn (northern Palatine)
  • Frankfurterisch: ; , (older)
  • Palatine German: hann, hawwe, hunn
  • Pennsylvania German: hawwe
  • Upper Hessian: hu, hunn
• Yiddish: האָבן (hobn)

• Benecke, Georg Friedrich, Müller, Wilhelm, Zarncke, Friedrich (1863) “han”, in Mittelhochdeutsches Wörterbuch: mit Benutzung des Nachlasses von Benecke, Stuttgart: S. Hirzel

• IPA^(key): /haːn¹/

han

1. two

From Old Norse hampr.

han m (plural hans)

1. (Jersey) galangal

• hån (Mooring)
• Hen (Sylt)

From Proto-Germanic *hanjō.

han f (plural hanen)

1. (Föhr-Amrum) hen, chicken

   Coordinate term: höön (“rooster”)

• IPA^(key): /hɑːn/

han

1. this

   Synonym: ev

• Chyet, Michael L. (2003) “han”, in Kurdish–English Dictionary‎, with selected etymologies by Martin Schwartz, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, page 231

From Old Norse hann.

• IPA^(key): /han/
• Homophones: hann, hand
• Rhymes: -an

han

1. he, him

• “han” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Old Norse hann.

• IPA^(key): /hɑnː/

han

1. he, him, it (third person singular, masculine)

Han is used to refer not only to masculine persons, but any masculine noun. E.g.: Bilen er fin. Eg likar han. - The car is nice. I like it.

In some dialects, han may precede a male given name or a difinite singular masculine noun. E.g: Kor vart det tå han Erik? (“Where did Erik disappeared?”)

• “han” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Old Norse hann.

han

1. he / it (masculine nominative pronoun)

• Danish: han

From Proto-West Germanic *hą̄han.

hān

1. (intransitive) to hang
2. (transitive) to hang

• Middle Dutch: hâen
  • Dutch: hangen
    • Afrikaans: hang
    • Berbice Creole Dutch: hanggi
    • Negerhollands: hang, haṅ
    • → Sranan Tongo: anga

• “hān”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

• IPA^(key): /xɑːn/,

hān f

1. a projecting stone that forms part of a boundary

Strong ō-stem:

• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “hán”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

• ᚼᛆᚿ

From Old Norse hann.

• IPA^(key): /ˈhanː/

han

1. he

   han ær mīn vin ― he is my friend

• Swedish: han

han (invariable)

1. Han Chinese (referring to the largest ethnic group indigenous to China)

han m (plural han or hans)

1. Han Chinese (member of the largest ethnic group indigenous to China)

• (Arabic) حَنۡ
• (Bengali) হান
• (Myanmar) ဟန်
• (Hanifi) 𐴇𐴝𐴕 (han)

• IPA^(key):

han

1. ear

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish خان (han), from Persian خان (xân, “caravanserai”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂wes- (“to dwell”).

han n (plural hanuri)

1. inn, caravanserai

• han in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

Inherited from Norwegian Nynorsk han (“he”).

Unknown. Possible examples:

• IPA^(key): /han/, /haɲ/ (Norwegian accent)
• IPA^(key): /xan/, /xanʲ/ (Russian accent)

There is no evidence of palatalization of the /n/-sound, although it should be there at least in the Northern Norwegian pronunciation.

There is also no known examples of the Russian pronunciation, where the letter h may be pronounced as /g/ (see gaf and gall).

han

1. he

• Ingvild Broch, Ernst H. Jahr (1984) Russenorsk: Et pidginspråk i Norge [Russenorsk: A pidgin language in Norway], 2 edition, Oslo: Novus Forlag, pages 113, 119

From English hand.

han

1. arm
2. hand

Only used to refer to a human; for an animal, the equivalent parts are all labelled as lek.

• Mosel, Ulrike (1980) Tolai and Tok Pisin: the influence of the substratum on the development of New Guinea Pidgin (Pacific Linguistics; Series B, no. 73)‎, Canberra: Australian National University, →ISBN
• Peter, Mühlhäusler (1983) “Samoan Plantation Pidgin English and the origin of New Guinea Pidgin”, in Ellen Woolford and William Washabaugh, editors, The Social Context of Creolization, Ann Arbor: Karoma, pages 28-76

From Ottoman Turkish خان (han), from Persian خان (xân, “caravanserai”).

• IPA^(key): /xâːn/
• Rhymes: -âːn

hȃn m (Cyrillic spelling ха̑н)

1. inn

• IPA^(key): /ˈan/
• Rhymes: -an
• Syllabification: han

han

1. third-person plural present indicative of haber

• 'an (eye dialect)

From Old Swedish han, from Old Norse hann, from Proto-Norse *hānaʀ.

• IPA^(key): /hanː/, (unstressed, postconsonantal) /an/

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• Rhymes: -an
• Homophone: hann

han

1. he, the third person singular, masculine, nominative case.

   Han är mycket stilig

   He is very handsome

2. (nonstandard in writing, common in speech) him

   Synonym: (standard) honom

   Jag såg han / Jag såg'an

   I saw him

See the usage notes for honom.

• hann (past tense of hinna – a homophone)
• hon (“she”)

• han in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• han in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• han in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kaən, compare Malay makan.

han

1. to eat

From English hand.

han

1. hand
2. arm
3. foreleg (of an animal)
4. wing (of a bird)
5. branch (of a tree)
6. branch (figurative)

• hanwara

• Mosel, Ulrike (1980) Tolai and Tok Pisin: the influence of the substratum on the development of New Guinea Pidgin (Pacific Linguistics; Series B, no. 73)‎, Canberra: Australian National University, →ISBN
• Peter, Mühlhäusler (1983) “Samoan Plantation Pidgin English and the origin of New Guinea Pidgin”, in Ellen Woolford and William Washabaugh, editors, The Social Context of Creolization, Ann Arbor: Karoma, pages 28-76

• IPA^(key): /hɑn/

From Ottoman Turkish خان (han), probably of central Asian origin. Doublet of kağan and hakan.

han (definite accusative hanı, plural hanlar)

1. khan

From Ottoman Turkish خان (han), from Persian خان (xân, “caravanserai”).

han (definite accusative hanı, plural hanlar)

1. inn (for caravans)

• IPA^(key):

han (definite accusative hany, plural hanlar)

1. khan

• oguzhan
• garahan
• hantama

• “han” in Enedilim.com
• “han” in Webonary.org

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key):
• (Huế) IPA^(key):
• (Saigon) IPA^(key):

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(classifier cây) han • (𧄊)

1. Dendrocnide

   Synonym: mán

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han • (𨫪)

1. appeared to begin to rust

   chiếc nồi đồng han xanh

   rusty green bronze pot

From Proto-Vietic *haːɲ (“to ask”).

han • (𪡗, 𠻃, 㗍, 漢, 嘆, 罕)

1. (archaic) to ask

   Synonym: hỏi

• hỏi han

• anh, nha

• ọ̀n (Ekiti)
• ghàn (SEY)

Compare with Ifè ŋà, Olukumi ghàn, Itsekiri ghàn and possibly Igala ñà, from Proto-Yoruba *ɣɪ̃ã̀, *ŋɪ̃ã̀ , from Proto-Edekiri *ɣɪ̃ã̀, *ŋɪ̃ã̀, ultimately from Proto-Yoruboid *ŋɪ̃ã̀.

• IPA^(key): /hã̀/

hàn

1. to appear, show; to be visible

• fi hàn

• IPA^(key): /hã̀/

hàn

1. to scribble

• hàntúrú

• IPA^(key): /hã̀/

hàn

1. (Igbomina) to pluck leaves from a plant

   Synonym: já

Compare with Ifè ŋɔ́, Olukumi ghọn, Igala ñwọ̀, proposed to be derived from Proto-Yoruba *ɣɔ̃̀, *ŋɔ̃̀, from Proto-Edekiri *ɣɔ̃̀, *ŋɔ̃̀, ultimately from Proto-Yoruboid *ŋʷɔ̃̀, Proto-Yoruboid *wɔ̃̀. See Proto-Bantu *gon, Igbo gwọ, Urhobo ahọnre

• ọ̀n (Ekiti)
• ghọ̀n (Ondo)

• IPA^(key): /hã̀/

hàn

1. to snore

   Synonym: han-an-run

• han-an-run

• IPA^(key): /hã̄/

han

1. to scream loudly

   Synonym: ké

• IPA^(key): /hã́/

hán

1. (Igbomina) Alternative form of wọ́n (“to catch something in the air”)