# clan
## English
### Etymology

Borrowed from Irish clann (“offspring, children of the family”) and Scottish Gaelic clann, both from Old Irish cland, borrowed from Old Welsh plant, itself borrowed from Latin planta (“shoot, offspring”). Doublet of plant and planta.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /klæn/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Homophone: Klan
* Rhymes: -æn

### Noun

clan (plural clans)
* (anthropology) A group of people all descended from a common ancestor, in fact or belief, especially when the exact genealogies are not known.
    Hyponym: descent group
    Coordinate term: lineage
* A traditional social group of families in the Scottish Highlands having a common hereditary chieftain.
* Any group defined by family ties with some sort of political unity.
** 1923, P.G. Wodehouse, The Inimitable Jeeves:As a rule, you see, I'm not lugged into Family Rows. On the occasions when Aunt is calling to Aunt like mastodons bellowing across primeval swamps and Uncle James's letter about Cousin Mabel's peculiar behaviour is being shot round the family circle... the clan has a tendency to ignore me.
* (video games) A group of players who habitually play on the same team in multiplayer games.
* A badger colony.

#### Derived terms

* clan control
* clan endogamy
* clanfellow
* clanless
* clan mate
* clanmate
* clannish
* clannism
* clannist
* clanny
* clansfolk
* clanship
* clansman
* clanspeak
* clansperson
* clanswoman
* interclan
* intraclan
* matriclan
* multiclan
* patriclan
* subclan

#### Descendants

* → Catalan: clan
* → Danish: klan
* → Dutch: clan
* → French: clan
** → Turkish: klan
* → Galician: clan
* → German: Clan
* → Italian: clan
* → Norwegian Bokmål: klan
* → Norwegian Nynorsk: klan
* → Polish: klan
* → Russian: клан (klan)
* → Portuguese: clan, clã
* → Spanish: clan
* → Swedish: klan

#### Translations
### See also

* clan lab

### Anagrams

* Lanc, NLCA, NaCl

## Catalan
### Noun

clan m (plural clans)
* clan

## Dutch
### Etymology

Borrowed from English clan, from Scottish Gaelic clann (“progeny, race”), from Old Irish cland, from Old Welsh plant, from Latin planta (“shoot, offspring”). As such, it is a doublet of plant (“plant, flora”).

### Pronunciation

* (Netherlands) IPA: /klɛn/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: clan
* Rhymes: -ɛn

### Noun

clan m (plural clans, diminutive clannetje n)
* clan, kin group, esp. in relation to the Scottish Highlands or Scotland in general
* (gaming) a group of gamers playing on the same team, a clan

#### Descendants

* Afrikaans: clan
* → Indonesian: klan

## French
### Etymology

Borrowed from English clan, from Scottish Gaelic clann (“progeny, race”), from Old Irish cland, from Old Welsh plant, from Latin planta (“shoot, offspring”), and therefore a doublet of plante.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /klɑ̃/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

clan m (plural clans)
* clan

#### Descendants

* → Turkish: klan

### Further reading

* “clan”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Galician
### Etymology

from Irish clann (“offspring, children of the family”) and Scottish Gaelic clann, both from Old Irish cland, borrowed from Old Welsh plant, itself borrowed from Latin planta (“shoot, offspring”). Doublet of planta.

### Noun

clan m (plural clans)
* clan
    Synonym: tribo

## Italian
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English clan. Ultimately a doublet of pianta.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈklan/, /ˈklɛn/
* Rhymes: -an, -ɛn
* Hyphenation: clàn

### Noun

clan m (invariable)
* clan
* team
* gang

### References

* ↑ clan in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

## Portuguese
### Noun

clan m (plural clans)
* Alternative spelling of clã

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from French clan.

### Noun

clan n (plural clanuri)
* clan

#### Declension
## Spanish
### Etymology

Borrowed from English clan.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈklan/ [ˈklãn]
* Rhymes: -an
* Syllabification: clan

### Noun

clan m (plural clanes)
* clan

### Further reading

* “clan”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10