# duan
## English
### Etymology

From Irish and Scottish Gaelic duan, from Middle Irish dúan, from Proto-Indo-European *dh₂p-no- (compare Old Armenian տաւն (tawn, “feast, celebration”), Ancient Greek δαπάνη (dapánē, “cost”), Old Norse tafn (“sacrificial animal”) and Latin damnum (“damage”)), from *deh₂p- (“to sacrifice”).

### Noun

duan (plural duans)
* A division of a poem, especially an epic poem or a Scottish poem; a canto.
** 1819–1824, [Lord Byron], Don Juan, London, (please specify |canto=I to XVII):Till what is call'd, in Ossian, the fifth Duan
* A poem or song.

### References

* “duan”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

### Anagrams

* Danu, Duna, Düna

## Albanian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈduan/, [ˈduː.än]

### Verb

duan
* third-person plural present indicative/subjunctive of dua

## Esperanto
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈduan]
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -uan
* Hyphenation: du‧an

### Adjective

duan
* accusative singular of dua

## Gagauz
### Etymology

Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish [script needed] (doġan), from Proto-Turkic *togan, a derivation from Proto-Turkic *tog-. Compare Turkish doğan, Azerbaijani doğan.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /duˈɑn/, /duˈwɑn/, /duˈvɑn/
* Hyphenation: du‧an

### Noun

duan (definite accusative duanı, plural duannar)
* falcon, hawk
* kite

#### Declension
### Participle

duan
* present participle of duumaa

### References

* ↑ “doğan”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
* ↑ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “doğu”, in Nişanyan Sözlük

### Further reading

* Kopuşçu M. İ. , Todorova S. A. , Kiräkova T.İ., editors (2019), “duan”, in Gagauzça-rusça sözlük: klaslar 5-12, Komrat: Gagauziya M.V. Maruneviç adına Bilim-Aaraştırma merkezi, →ISBN, page 58
* N. A Baskakov, editor (1972), “дуан”, in Gagauzsko-Russko-Moldavskij Slovarʹ [Gagauz-Russian-Moldovan Dictionary], Moskva: Izdatelʹstvo Sovetskaja Enciklopedija, →ISBN, page 161
* Mavrodi M. F., editor (2019), “duan”, in Gagauzça-rusça sözlük: klaslar 1-4, Komrat: Gagauziya M.V. Maruneviç adına Bilim-Aaraştırma merkezi, →ISBN, page 28

## Irish
### Etymology

From Middle Irish dúan, from Proto-Indo-European *dh₂p-no- (compare Old Armenian տաւն (tawn, “feast, celebration”), Ancient Greek δαπάνη (dapánē, “cost”), Old Norse tafn (“sacrificial animal”) and Latin damnum (“damage”)), from *deh₂p- (“to sacrifice”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /d̪ˠuən̪ˠ/, /d̪ˠuənˠ/

### Noun

duan m (genitive singular duain, nominative plural duanta)
* poem
* song

#### Declension

bare forms
case
singular
plural
nominative
duan
duanta
vocative
a dhuain
a dhuanta
genitive
duain
duanta
dative
duan
duanta
forms with the definite article
case
singular
plural
nominative
an duan
na duanta
genitive
an duain
na nduanta
dative
leis an duan don duan
leis na duanta :

### Mutation

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

### Further reading

* Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “dúan”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
* Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “duan”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

## Mandarin
### Romanization

duan
* Nonstandard spelling of duān.
* Nonstandard spelling of duǎn.
* Nonstandard spelling of duàn.

#### 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.

## Old Frisian
### Verb

duān
* Alternative spelling of dwā

## Scottish Gaelic
### Etymology

From Middle Irish dúan, from Proto-Indo-European *dh₂p-no- (compare Old Armenian տաւն (tawn, “feast, celebration”), Ancient Greek δαπάνη (dapánē, “cost”), Old Norse tafn (“sacrificial animal”) and Latin damnum (“damage”)), from *deh₂p- (“to sacrifice”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /t̪uən/

### Noun

duan m (genitive singular duain, plural duain)
* poem
* song

#### Synonyms

* dàn, òran