# bàn
## Mandarin
### Alternative forms

* ban — nonstandard

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Romanization

bàn (ban$^4$, Zhuyin ㄅㄢˋ)
* Hanyu Pinyin reading of 伴
* Hanyu Pinyin reading of 办
* Hanyu Pinyin reading of 半
* Hanyu Pinyin reading of 埾
* Hanyu Pinyin reading of 姅
* Hanyu Pinyin reading of 怑
* Hanyu Pinyin reading of 扮
* Hanyu Pinyin reading of 拌
* Hanyu Pinyin reading of 湴
* Hanyu Pinyin reading of 瓣
* Hanyu Pinyin reading of 秚
* Hanyu Pinyin reading of 絆 / 绊
* Hanyu Pinyin reading of 绊
* Hanyu Pinyin reading of 辠
* Hanyu Pinyin reading of 辦 / 办
* Hanyu Pinyin reading of 辫
* Hanyu Pinyin reading of 鉡 / 𰽰
* Hanyu Pinyin reading of 靽

## Middle Vietnamese
### Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

### Verb

bàn
* to examine, to consider

#### Descendants

* Vietnamese: bàn

## Scottish Gaelic
### Etymology

From Old Irish bán, from Proto-Celtic *bānos (“white”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂- (“shine”); Greek φᾱνός (phānós, “bright”); Sanskrit भानु (bhānú, “light”); further away is English bale (bale-fire).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /paːn/

### Adjective

bàn (genitive singular masculine bàin, genitive singular feminine bàine, nominative plural bàna, comparative bàine)
* white, pale, fair
    Synonyms: fionn, geal
    taigh bàn ― a white house
* (hair color) fair, blond
    Tha falt bàn air Seumas. ― James has blond hair.

#### Derived terms

* comhachag-bhàn f (“snowy owl”)
* corra-bhàn f (“stork”)
* còta-bàn m (“petticoat”)
* iolair-bhàn f (“sea eagle”)
* lèine bhàn f (“white tissue lining eggshell”)
* talamh bàn m (“fallow ground”)

### See also

Colors in Scottish Gaelic · dathan (layout · text) :
| bàn, geal | glas | dubh |
| dearg; ruadh | orains; donn | buidhe; donn |
| uaine | uaine | gorm |
| liath; glas | liath | gorm |
| purpaidh; guirmean | pinc; purpaidh | pinc |

### References

* Edward Dwelly (1911) “bàn”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎, 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
* Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “bán”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

## Tày
### Etymology

From Vietnamese bàn.

### Pronunciation

* (Thạch An – Tràng Định) IPA: [ɓaːn˧˨]
* (Trùng Khánh) IPA: [ɓaːn˩]

### Verb

bàn
* to discuss; to decide
    bàn đuổi căn ― to discuss with each other

### References

* Léopold Michel Cadière (1910) Dictionnaire Tày-Annamite-Français [Tày-Vietnamese-French Dictionary]‎ (in French), Hanoi: Impressions d'Extrême-Orient

## Vietnamese
### Pronunciation

* (Hà Nội) IPA: [ʔɓaːn˨˩]
* (Huế) IPA: [ʔɓaːŋ˦˩]
* (Saigon) IPA: [ʔɓaːŋ˨˩]
* Audio (Hà Nội):(file)
* Audio (Saigon):(file)

### Etymology 1

Sino-Vietnamese word from 盤 (“plate; board game”).

#### Noun

(classifier chiếc, cái) bàn
* (furniture) a table
* (board games) Synonym of ván (“a game”)

#### Affix

bàn
* a board (long, wide and thin piece of wood or other material)
    bàn thờan altar(literally, “a worship board”)
    bàn tínhan abacus(literally, “a calculation board”)
    bàn cầu cơa Ouija board
    bàn cờ/phíma board-game board/keyboard

##### Derived terms

* bàn cờ
* bàn thờ

##### Descendants

* → Tai Dam: ꪝꪱꪙ

#### Classifier

bàn
* (sports, games) indicates a single score or goal
    bàn thắnga goal
    thua 2 bànto lose by two goals

### Etymology 2

* This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “consider 拌 as in 拌嘴 (bànzuǐ, “to bicker”) or 搬 as in 搬口 (“to tell stories”) or 盤 as in 盤問 / 盘问 (pánwèn) and 盤查 / 盘查 (pánchá, “to interrogate”). Or non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 辦 (SV: biện), as proposed by Baxter & Sagart.”

#### Verb

bàn • (𡂑)
* to discuss; to talk over

##### Derived terms

* bàn bạc
* bàn cãi
* bàn tán

## Wiyot
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /βàn/
* Hyphenation: bàn

### Noun

bàn
* name

### References

* Karl V. Teeter (1964) The Wiyot Language, University of California press, page 81