# lan
## Translingual
### Symbol

lan
* (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Laru.

### See also

* Wiktionary's coverage of Laru terms

## Balinese
### Romanization

lan
* Romanization of ᬮᬦ᭄

## Basque
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)
* IPA: /lan/ [lãn]
* Rhymes: -an
* Hyphenation: lan

### Noun

lan inan
* work, task
* labour
* annoyance, trouble

#### Derived terms

* lan egin 'work' (v.)
* lantegi 'workplace'

### Further reading

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

## Fala
### Alternative forms

* lana (Lagarteiru)

### Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese lãa, from Latin lāna.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈlan/
* Rhymes: -an
* Syllabification: lan

### Noun

lan f (plural lanis)
* (Mañegu, Valverdeñu) wool

### References

* Valeš, Miroslav (2021) Diccionariu de A Fala: lagarteiru, mañegu, valverdeñu (web)‎, 2nd edition, Minde, Portugal: CIDLeS, published 2022, →ISBN

## Fon
### Etymology

Cognates include Gun làn, Saxwe Gbe olàn, Adja elan

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /lã̀/

### Noun

làn (plural làn lɛ́)
* meat

#### Derived terms

* lànmɛ̀ (“body”)

## Gun
### Alternative forms

* òlàn

### Etymology

Cognates include Fon làn, Saxwe Gbe olàn, Adja elan, Ewe lã.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /lã̀/

### Noun

làn (plural làn lɛ́ or làn lẹ́)
* meat

#### Derived terms

* lànmɛ̀ (“body”)
* lànmẹ̀ (“body”)

## Haitian Creole
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /lã/

### Article

lan
* the (definite article)

#### Usage notes

Use this word only after a word that ends with a nasal vowel and an oral (non-nasal) consonant, in that order, and when it modifies a singular noun.

#### See also

* a
* an
* la
* nan
* yo
* yon

## Javanese
### Romanization

lan
* Romanization of ꦭꦤ꧀

## Linngithigh
### Noun

lan
* tongue
* rays of the Sun on water
* spearpoint

## Lower Sorbian
### Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *lьnъ, from Proto-Indo-European *lino-; cognate with Upper Sorbian len, Polish len, Czech len, Russian лён (ljon), Old Church Slavonic льнѣнъ (lĭněnŭ).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /lan/

### Noun

lan m inan (diminutive lank)
* flax (Linum usitatissimum)

#### Declension
### Further reading

* Muka, Arnošt (1921, 1928) “lan”, in Słownik dolnoserbskeje rěcy a jeje narěcow (in German), St. Petersburg, Prague: ОРЯС РАН, ČAVU; Reprinted Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag, 2008
* Starosta, Manfred (1999) “lan”, in Dolnoserbsko-nimski słownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch (in German), Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag

## Mandarin
### Romanization

lan
* Nonstandard spelling of lán.
* Nonstandard spelling of lǎn.
* Nonstandard spelling of làn.

#### Usage notes

* 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.

## Middle Irish
### Adjective

lan
* Alternative spelling of lán

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Etymology

From English LAN, acronym of local area network.

### Noun

lan n (definite singular lanet, indefinite plural lan, definite plural lana)
* (networking) a LAN
* (computing) a LAN party

#### Derived terms

* lana, lane (verb)

### References

* Cf. “lan” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

### Anagrams

* nal

## Old Javanese
### Etymology

Probably from earlier len, lyan (“other, different”), inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *lian (“to change appearance”).

### Conjunction

lan
* and

#### Descendants

* > Javanese: ꦭꦤ꧀ (lan) (inherited)
* → Balinese: ᬮᬦ᭄ (lan)

### Further reading

* "lan" in P.J. Zoetmulder with the collaboration of S.O. Robson, Old Javanese-English Dictionary. 's-Gravenhage: M. Nijhoff, 1982.

## Polish
### Pronunciation

* (Masovia):
** (Near Masovian) IPA: /ˈlan/

### Noun

lan m inan
* (Near Masovian) Alternative form of len

### Further reading

* Zygmunt Wasilewski (1889) “lan”, in Jagodne: wieś w powiecie łukowskim, gminie Dąbie: zarys etnograficzny (in Polish), Warsaw: M. Arct, page 242

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic льнъ (lĭnŭ), from Proto-Slavic *lьnъ. Compare Ukrainian лан (lan).

### Noun

lan n (plural lanuri)
* field (arable land)
    Synonym: ogor

#### Declension
## Serbo-Croatian
### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *lьnъ.

### Noun

lȁn m (Cyrillic spelling ла̏н)
* flax

#### Derived terms

* lànen

## Tetum
### Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese lã, from Old Galician-Portuguese lãa (“wool”), from Latin lāna (“wool”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂wĺ̥h₁neh₂ (“wool”).

### Noun

lan
* wool

## Turkish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɫɑn/, [ˈɫ̟ɑn̟]

### Interjection

lan
* Alternative form of ulan

#### Descendants

* → Swedish: len

## Vietnamese
### Pronunciation

* (Hà Nội) IPA: [laːn˧˧]
* (Huế) IPA: [laːŋ˧˧]
* (Saigon) IPA: [laːŋ˧˧]

### Etymology 1

Compare tràn (“to overflow”).

#### Verb

lan
* to spread; to run

##### Derived terms

* lan man
* lan truyền
* tràn lan

### Etymology 2

Sino-Vietnamese word from 蘭.

#### Noun

(classifier cây, bông, hoa) lan
* orchid

##### See also

* phong lan

## Wab
### Noun

lan
* water

### Further reading

* John Carter, Katie Carter, John Grummitt, Bonnie MacKenzie, Janell Masters, A Sociolinguistic Survey of the Mur Village Vernaculars (2012)

## Welsh
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /lan/
* Rhymes: -an

### Etymology 1

The sense of "up, upwards" comes from an abbreviation of the phrase i'r lan "to the shore, ashore; upwards".

#### Preposition

lan
* (South Wales) up
    Synonym: i fyny
    Antonym: i lawr
    Sa i'n mynd lan yr Wyddfa heb esgidiau addas.I'm not going up Snowdon without appropriate footwear.

#### Adverb

lan
* (South Wales) up, upwards
    Synonym: i fyny
    Antonym: i lawr
    Sa i'n mynd lan gyda ti yn y fflipfflops yna.I'm not going up with you in those flipflops.

#### Noun

lan
* Soft mutation of glan (“shore, bank”).

#### Derived terms

* lan a lawr (“up and down”)
* lan lofft (“upstairs”)
* lanlwytho (“to upload”)

#### Mutation

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

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

lan
* Soft mutation of llan (“church”).

#### Mutation

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

## West Coast Bajau
### Etymology

From Proto-Sama-Bajaw *lalan, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *zalan, from Proto-Austronesian *zalan.

### Noun

lan
* path
* trail

## Yámana
### Noun

lan
* tongue

## Zhuang
### Etymology

From Proto-Tai *ʰlaːnᴬ (“nephew; niece; grandchild”). Cognate with Thai หลาน (lǎan), Northern Thai ᩉᩖᩣ᩠ᨶ, Khün ᩉᩖᩣ᩠ᨶ, Lao ຫຼານ (lān), Lü ᦜᦱᧃ (l̇aan), Tai Dam ꪨꪱꪙ, Shan လၢၼ် (lǎan), Tai Nüa ᥘᥣᥢᥴ (láan), Ahom 𑜎𑜃𑜫 (lan), Saek หล่าน.

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Zhuang) IPA: /laːn˨˦/
* Tone numbers: lan$^1$
* Hyphenation: lan

### Noun

lan (classifier boux, Sawndip forms 𭓀 or 𰌮 or 𭓎 or 𬞕, 1957–1982 spelling lan)
* grandchild; grandson

#### Derived terms

* bawxlan
* ciuhlan
* dahlan
* daihlan
* daeglan
* goyezlan
* goyelan
* goyilan
* landaeuz
* langwiz
* lanbawx
* lanbaex
* lancaiz
* lanlaej
* lanluz
* lanlux
* lanmbauq
* lanmbwk
* lannyingz
* lanranzrog
* lansai
* lansau
* lanvaiqseng
* lanvaihseng
* lwglan