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English
Noun
pisan (plural pisans)
- Alternative form of pisane
1797, John Pinkerton, The History Of Scotland From The Accession Of The House Of Stuart To That Of Mary: With Appendixes Of Original Papers. In Two Volumes, page 406: worth ten pounds a year in land, or more, shall have basnet, sallat (or helm without a crest,) white-hat, gorget or pisan, armour for the legs, sword, spear, and dagger: those of smaller incomes to arm accordingly.
1889, Bernard Homer Dixon, The Border Or Riding Clans: Followed by a History of the Clan Dickson and a Brief Account of the Family of the Author, Albany, N.Y.: J. Munsell's Sons, page 78:[…] halbrik or brigantine, gorget or pisan with splents, knee.pans of mail and gauntlets of plate or mail; that unlanded gentlemen and yeoman have jacks of plate, halbriks, splents, sallat or steel bonnet with pisan or gorget […]
1923, Edmund Curtis, A History of Mediaeval Ireland from 1110 to 1513, page 411:Garret was the true “Ard Ri” of a large part of Ireland, and the chiefs to whom he presented the horses, coats of mail, gorgets and pisans recorded in the Rental looked on these as the customary stipends due from an over-king.
Anagrams
- ispán, piñas, aspin, spina, Spain, SPINA, NSAPI, IP SAN, PAINs, pains, Pains, PAINS, nipas, pinas
Bikol Central
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpisan/
- Hyphenation: pi‧san
Adjective
písan (Basahan spelling ᜉᜒᜐᜈ᜔)
- rare
- Synonym: bihira
French
Pronunciation
Adjective
pisan (feminine pisane, masculine plural pisans, feminine plural pisanes)
- Pisan (from Pisa)
Anagrams
Galician
Verb
pisan
- third-person plural present indicative of pisar
Kapampangan
Noun
pisan
- cousin
Middle English
Etymology
Old French, see English pisane.
Noun
pisan (plural pisans)
- a pisane (armor collar of mail or plate, or by extension an ornamental collar)
- pysan, pesane, pysane, pesayn, pesan, peseyn, pisone, pusayne, pusen, pysayne, pyson
Old English
Noun
pisan
- inflection of pise:
- accusative/genitive/dative singular
- nominative/accusative plural
Romanian
Etymology
From Pisa + -an.
Adjective
pisan m or n (feminine singular pisană, masculine plural pisani, feminine and neuter plural pisane)
- Pisan
Declension
References
- pisan in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
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Adjective
pȋsān (Cyrillic spelling пи̑са̄н)
- written
Declension
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Spanish
Verb
pisan
- third-person plural present indicative of pisar
Sundanese
Etymology
cf. Javanese ꦥꦶꦱꦤ꧀ (pisan), Banjarese pisan
Adverb
pisan (Sundanese script ᮕᮤᮞᮔ᮪)
- very; utterly
- Synonym: jasa (Banten)
- ngeunah pisan ― very tasty
Further reading
Tagalog
Etymology 1
Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *pisan. Doublet of pinsan.
Pronunciation
Adjective
pisan (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜒᜐᜈ᜔)
- stuck together, strung together
- Synonyms: magkasama, magkadikit
Noun
pisan (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜒᜐᜈ᜔)
- a roommate, a housemate
- Synonyms: kabahay, nakabahay
Derived terms
Etymology 2
Possibly related to Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *pasaŋ (“flood tide”).
Pronunciation
Noun
pisán (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜒᜐᜈ᜔)
- (literary) flood
- Synonym: baha
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