chan

• Rhymes: -æn

Clipping of channel.

chan (plural chans)

1. (Internet, informal) An IRC channel.
   • 1997, "Dominic Donegan", Is there a #nethack chan on IRC? (on newsgroup rec.games.roguelike.nethack)

     I tried, but I never get anyone in the chan! I don't know how/where to advertise... maybe we should set up a meeting time or something?

   • 1999, "Jonny Durango", IMPORTANT NEWS FOR AHM IRC CHAN!!! (on newsgroup alt.hackers.malicious)

     If you don't have your password set within a week I'll remove you from the userlist and I'll add you again next time I see you in the chan and make sure you set a pass.

• chanop

From 4chan, a popular imageboard; ultimately from channel.

chan (plural chans)

1. (Internet, informal) An imageboard.

• Cahn

From French champ.

chan

1. free space; open land

chan

1. snake

• chao

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese chão, from Latin plānum. Compare Portuguese chão, Spanish llano.

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃaŋ/

chan m (plural chans)

1. floor

   Synonym: solo

2. ground

   Synonym: solo

3. (geography) plateau

chan m (feminine singular chá, masculine plural chans, feminine plural chás)

1. level; flat
2. plain

• Chá
• Chan
• Chao
• Chaodarcas
• Chaos

• chaira
• chaela
• chancela
• chanzo
• chelo
• Chelo
• Chenlo

• “chao” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “chão” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “chan” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “chan” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “chan” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

From Middle Irish nocon, nochon, from Old Irish nícon, nacon, from ní con.

• (before a, o, u, fha, fho, fhu) IPA^(key): [xan̪ˠ]
• (before e, i, fhe, fhi) IPA^(key): [xanʲ]

chan

1. (Ulster) not

   Chan ólann sé. ― He does not drink.

   Chan fhanfaidh sé. ― He will not wait.

Used only in some varieties of Ulster Irish. Used only before a vowel sound.

• ní (used in Munster Irish, Connacht Irish, and some varieties of Ulster Irish)

• cha (used before a consonant)
• char (used with the past tense)

• IPA^(key): [xan̪ˠ]

chan

1. past analytic of can

• chanas (1st person sing. synthetic, nonstandard)
• chanais (2d person sing. synthetic, nonstandard)
• chanamar (1st person pl. synthetic)
• chanabhar (2d person pl. synthetic, nonstandard)
• chanadar (3d person pl. synthetic, nonstandard)
• canadh (autonomous)

• “nícon” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
• Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language, Alexander MacBain, Eneas Mackay, 1911

chan

1. Rōmaji transcription of ちゃん

chan m (Latin spelling)

1. bell

chan

1. Nonstandard spelling of chān.
2. Nonstandard spelling of chán.
3. Nonstandard spelling of chǎn.
4. Nonstandard spelling of chàn.

• English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

chan

1. vagina

• Nafaanra Dictionary

Deverbal of chantar.

chan m (oblique plural chans, nominative singular chans, nominative plural chan)

1. song

• chantador
• chantar
• chanso
• chansoneta
• enchantar
• enchantamen

From Proto-Nahuan *chaːn-. Compare Classical Nahuatl chāntli (“home”)

• (standard) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃaŋ/

-chan

1. at or to one's home or house

   Tiajket ka nuchan pal titakwat

   We went to my house to eat

From Turkish kan (“prince, lord”)/khān, contraction of khaqan (“sovereign, ruler”).

• IPA^(key): /xan/

• Audio

  (file)

chan m pers

1. khan (ruler)

Borrowed from English chan.

chan m (plural chans)

1. (Internet) chan, imageboard

• channer

• (Rumantsch Grischun, Puter) chaun
• (Sursilvan) tgaun
• (Sutsilvan) tgàn
• (Surmiran) tgang

From Latin canis, canem.

chan m (plural chans)

1. (Vallader) (male) dog

• (sex): chagna

From Middle Irish nocon, nochon, from Old Irish nícon, nacon, from ní con.

• IPA^(key): [xanʲ]

chan

1. not

   Chan fhaca mi i. ― I haven’t seen her.

   Chan eil mi fuar. ― I am not cold.

   An t-aran, chan [eil] ùr e. ― The bread, it’s not fresh.

• Used with the dependent form of a verb. With the copula, the verb may be suppressed.
• This is the form used before a vowel, including before words like fhaca since lenitied /f/ is silent. Otherwise use cha.
• In older Gaelic this is spelled cha'n.

• “nícon” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
• Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language, Alexander MacBain, Eneas Mackay, 1911

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃan/, [t͡ʃãn]

chan m (plural chanes)

1. (Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras) Alternative form of chía
   • 2002, Rodrigo Crespo A., Comiendo pura vida, p. 135.

     Los aderezos de semillas y nueces se preparan licuando semillas remojadas de linaza, girasol, chan...

     Seasonings from seeds and nuts are prepared by blending soaked linseed, sunflower seeds, chia seeds...

• “chan” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

chan

1. (transitive) to learn

• Laughlin, Robert M. [et al.] (1988) The Great Tzotzil Dictionary of Santo Domingo Zinacantán, vol. I. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press.

chan

1. Aspirate mutation of can.