# Luan
## English
### Etymology 1

From Mandarin 欒 / 栾 (Luán).

#### Proper noun

Luan
* A surname from Mandarin.
** 2010 April 9, Loa Iok-sin, “Jiang backs betel ‘justice’”, in Taipei Times‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 16 April 2010, Taiwan News, page 2‎:Luan Cheng (欒丞), an officer from the Jhonghe Second Police Precinct, on Tuesday approached 19-year-old Yen Ju-yi (顏如憶) who was selling betel nuts at a small shop in Jhonghe City (中和), Taipei County, and told her she was showing too much skin and may have violated the law. […] While Yen has accused Luan of causing bodily harm, Luan said that Yen prevented an officer of the law from exercising his duties and slandered him.

### Etymology 2
#### Proper noun

Luan
* Alternative form of Lu'an.
** 1977 July 7 [1977 July 2], “Anhwei Rallies Denounce Former Provincial Leader”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 130, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Hofei Anhwei Provincial Service, translation of original in Mandarin, →ISSN, →OCLC, People's Republic of China: East Region, page G 1:All prefectures and municipalities in Anhwei have held mass rallies to acclaim the instructions of Chariman Hua, Vice Chairman Yeh and leading comrades of the central authorities on solving the leadership problem in the provincial CCP committee and to expose and criticize the mistakes of the former principal leading person of the provincial CCP committee. […] Some 40,000 people attended a Luan Prefecture rally on 30 June. (Hu Tan), secretary of the prefectural CCP committee; (Wang Min-hsueh), political commissar of Luan Military Subdistrict, and others addressed the rally.
** 2014 October 9, Wu Nan, “Drink-driving bungle; Fake goods up in flames; Ex-official denies gambling”, in South China Morning Post‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 12 October 2014, China Insider‎:A man has been arrested in Huoshan county near Luan for drink-driving after he rang up the police by mistake and then challenged an officer to a fight, […]

##### Usage notes

Luan can be considered a misspelling of Lu'an. In theory, a syllable-dividing mark (隔音符號／隔音符号 (géyīn fúhào)) should be added before a non-initial syllable beginning with a, o, or e. Hence, Luan could only ever refer to a word made up of the single syllable luan (see Etymology 1 above, where the single syllable Luan is a surname) since a word made up of lu and an would be spelled as Lu'an (cf. Lu'an). In practice, syllable-dividing marks are often added or omitted at will.

## Albanian
### Proper noun

Luan m
* a male given name

#### Declension
### References

* Dražić, Marina, Antić, Ivana, editors (2019), Каталог најчешћих албанских имена и презимена‎ (in Serbo-Croatian), page 36

## Irish
### Etymology

From Middle Irish lúan.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /l̪ˠuən̪ˠ/, /l̪ˠuənˠ/

### Noun

Luan m (genitive singular Luain, nominative plural Luanta)
* Monday

#### Declension

bare forms
case
singular
plural
nominative
Luan
Luanta
vocative
a Luain
a Luanta
genitive
Luain
Luanta
dative
Luan
Luanta
forms with the definite article
case
singular
plural
nominative
an Luan
na Luanta
genitive
an Luain
na Luanta
dative
leis an Luan don Luan
leis na Luanta :

#### Derived terms

* Dé Luain
* Luan Cásca
* Luan Cincíse
* Luan an tSléibhe

### See also

* days of the week (appendix): Domhnach · Luan · Máirt · Céadaoin · Déardaoin · Aoine · Satharn

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈlwan/ [ˈlwãn]
* Rhymes: -an
* Syllabification: Luan

### Proper noun

Luan m
* a male given name