# apan
## English
### Alternative forms

* APAn

### Etymology

From APA (“amateur press association”) +‎ -n (“of or pertaining to”).

### Noun

apan (plural apans)
* (fandom slang) A member of an amateur press association.
** 1990 August, Guy Lillian, “'Tis the Season”, in Mimosa‎, number 8, page 4:The greatest apan of all time lives on a quiet old street rising above Hagerstown, Maryland.
** 1998 October 3, Brown, Rich [Dr Gafia], “Fan Terms (1)”, in rec.arts.sf.fandom‎ (Usenet), retrieved 2018-06-13, message-ID <19981003020622.14181.00000964@ng52.aol.com>:Most of the participants in the mundane apas are hobby printers—-and the disdain with which our fandom once viewed Xeroxing of fanzines is but a pale reflection of the way mundane apans have looked upon the mimeo and the ditto as a means of publishing "papers" (as they call their amateur publications).
** 2006 May, Arnie Katz, “The Thin Veneer”, in confuSon‎, volume 1, number 4:I immediately began a cutback. I remained an enthusiastic apan, but by the time I gafiated around 1976, I was in only one, FAPA.

#### Synonyms

* apahack

#### Hyponyms

* biapan, multiapan, omniapan

#### Related terms

* apazine

### Anagrams

* paan, Napa, NAPA, napa, Pana

## Cebuano
### Etymology

Short for apanapan.

### Pronunciation

* Hyphenation: a‧pan

### Noun

apan
* a grasshopper
    Synonyms: apan, apanapan

#### Related terms

* dulon

## Finnish
### Verb

apan
* first-person singular present indicative of appaa

### Anagrams

* napa, paan

## Hiligaynon
### Noun

apán
* an adult locust

## Malay
### Noun

apan
* (dialectal, Sambas) pan

## Old English
### Noun

apan
* inflection of apa:
** accusative/genitive/dative singular
** nominative/accusative plural

## Pipil
### Etymology

From at (“water”) +‎ -pan (“upper surface; place/area; time”, locative).

### Pronunciation

* (standard) IPA: /ˈapaŋ/

### Noun

apan (plural ajapan)
* river
    Yahquet maltiat tic ne apan ne pipilmetThe children went to bathe in the river

#### Related terms

* apanmil (“irrigation corn”)
* apanti (“irrigated field”)

## Quechua
### Verb

apan
* third-person singular present indicative of apay

## Swedish
### Noun

apan
* definite singular of apa

## Tagakaulu Kalagan
### Noun

apan
* grasshopper

## Tagalog
### Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish afán.

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Tagalog) IPA: /ʔaˈpan/ [ʔɐˈpan̪]
* Rhymes: -an
* Syllabification: a‧pan

### Noun

apán (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜉᜈ᜔)
* enthusiastic eagerness
    Synonyms: sigla, sigasig
* eager inclination for an activity, as a hobby
    Synonym: hilig
* vehement desire
    Synonyms: lunggati, nasa

#### Related terms

* apanado

### Further reading

* “apan”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
* Cuadrado Muñiz, Adolfo (1972) Hispanismos en el tagalo: diccionario de vocablos de origen español vigentes en esta lengua filipina, Madrid: Oficina de Educación Iberoamericana, page 14

## Waray-Waray
### Noun

apán
* grasshopper

## Western Huasteca Nahuatl
### Noun

apan
* river

## Yola
### Alternative forms

* apaa, apa, upan, upa, pa (aphetic)

### Etymology

From Middle English apan, upan, from Old English upon, uppon, uppan (“on, upon, up to, against, after, in addition to”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /əˈpan/, /əˈpaː/, (aphetic) /paː/

### Preposition

apan
* upon
** 1867, “THE WEDDEEN O BALLYMORE”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 2, page 94:Wee aar lhaung vlealès an pikkès, to waaite apan a breede.With their long flails and picks, to wait upon the bride.
** 1867, “THE WEDDEEN O BALLYMORE”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 3, page 94:Aar was a muskawn o buthther ee-laaide apan hoat shruaanès,There was a great heap of butter laid upon hot scraps,
** 1867, “VERSES IN ANSWER TO THE WEDDEEN O BALLYMORE”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 98:[Wee] vaate apan vaate a met-borde was ee-halt.[With vat upon vat a meat-borde was held.]
** 1867, “VERSES IN ANSWER TO THE WEDDEEN O BALLYMORE”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 1, page 100:Amang wefty jhemes, 'cha jeist ee-rid apan.Among cobwebby scraps, I have just alighted on.
** 1867, “ABOUT AN OLD SOW GOING TO BE KILLED”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 2, page 106:Ich aam a vat hog it's drue. Aar is ken apan aam.I am a fat hog, 'tis true. There is ken upon them.

### References

* Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 23