dan

• IPA^(key): /dæn/

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From Japanese 段 (dan)

dan (plural dans)

1. A rank of black belt in martial arts

   Hyponym: shodan

2. Someone who has achieved a level of black belt

   Hyponym: shodan

Uncertain.

dan (plural dans)

1. (mining) A small truck or sledge used in coal mines.

From Old English [Term?]

dan

1. (obsolete) A title of honour equivalent to "master" or "sir".
   • Spenser

     Old Dan Geoffry, in gently spright / The pure wellhead of poetry did dwell.

   • Thomson

     What time Dan Abraham left the Chaldee land.

• -and, ADN, AND, DNA, NAD, NDA, and, and-, dna, nad

From Dutch dan.

dan

1. then

dan

1. than

From French dent.

dan

1. (anatomy) tooth

• IPA^(key): [dã˦]

dan

1. to count
2. to sow

• IPA^(key): [dã˨]

dan

1. to pass beyond

• 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.

dan

1. water

• Heinrich Aufenanger, The great inheritance in Northeast New Guinea: a collection of anthropological data (1975)
• Stephen Adolphe Wurm, New Guinea Area Languages and Language Study (1976)

dan

1. water

• Cornelis L. Voorhoeve, Languages of Irian Jaya Checklist (1975, Canberra: Pacific Linguistics), page 128

dan

1. Soft mutation of tan.

• IPA^(key): /dan/
• Rhymes: -an

From Japanese だん (dan).

dan m anim

1. (martial arts) dan, master and teacher of judo, karate or other Japanese martial arts.

dan m inan

1. (martial arts) dan, master degree in judo and karate

From Latin Dania (“Denmark”).

dan m inan

1. (geology) Danian, stage of Paleogene

• And
• dna
• DNA
• nad

Compare Bonan dam, ultimately from Proto-Turkic *dām. Compare Turkish dam (“roof”), Uyghur تام‎ (tam, “wall”), Salar tam, tām (“wall”).

• IPA^(key): /taŋ/, [tɑ̃(ŋ)]

dan

1. wall

• Rhymes: -ɑn
• IPA^(key): /dɑn/

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dan

1. then, at that time (in the future)

   Morgen wordt het beter weer, maar dan moet ik weer naar mijn werk.

   Tomorrow the weather will be better, but then I must go to work again.

2. then, after that

   Eerst moet je je tanden poetsen, dan mag je naar bed.

   First you need to brush your teeth, then you may go to bed.

3. then, in that case

   Als het niet had geregend of gesneeuwd had, dan moet de auto toch veilig zijn.

   If it had not rained or snowed, then the car must still be safe.

The adverb dan is almost obligatorily used in Dutch after an imperative with a preceding conditional clause:

• Als u de tijd hebt, bezoekt u dan in ieder geval de haven.

  If you have the time, then be sure to visit the harbour.

• (in the past) toen

dan

1. than (in comparison)

   Ik ben ouder dan jij.

   I am older than you.

• als (non-standard)

dan

1. but, except

   Niets dan liefde.

   Nothing but love.

dan c (plural dans)

1. Unit of grading proficiency greater than black-belt in Japanese martial arts

• DNA

dan

1. water

• Frantisek Lichtenberk, Sequentiality-Futurity Links, Oceanic Linguistics 53:1 (2014), pages 61-91

From Japanese 段 (dan), from Chinese 段.

• IPA^(key): /dan/

dan m (plural dans)

1. dan

• “dan” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

dan

1. third-person plural present indicative of dar

From French dent (“tooth”)

dan

1. tooth

From Malay dan.

• IPA^(key): /dan/

dan

1. and (used to connect two similar words, phrases, et cetera)

From Japanese 段 (dan)

• IPA^(key): /dan/

dan (plural dan-dan, first-person possessive danku, second-person possessive danmu, third-person possessive dannya)

1. Rank in judo, karate and kenpo.

dan

1. Rōmaji transcription of だん

Compare Iron and Digor Ossetian дон (don), from earlier *дан (*dan).

dan

1. water

• Fridrik Thordarson, Ossetic Grammatical Studies (2009)
• Magyarrá lett keleti népek (Viktor Szombathy, Gyula László; 1988), reproducing the only surviving wordlist

dan

1. water

• Stephen Adolphe Wurm, New Guinea Area Languages and Language Study (1976)

From Proto-Indo-Iranian *dádaHti, from Proto-Indo-European *dédeh₃ti, imperfective form of the root *deh₃-.

dan

1. to give, to grant, to provide with

dan

1. in front of, before

dan

1. water

Takes various 'article' prefixes, such as la-dan (in the Madak dialect) and e-dan (in other Lamusong dialects).

• Malcolm Ross, Proto Oceanic and the Austronesian Languages of Western Melanesia, Pacific Linguistics, series C-98 (1988)
• Bob Lee, Noun Phrases in Madak

• دان‎

• IPA^(key): /dan/
• Rhymes: -dan, -an
• Rhymes: -an

dan (Jawi spelling دان)

1. and (used to connect two similar words, phrases, et cetera)

From Arabic ذَا‎ (ḏā, “this, that”). The -n is possibly from hawn (“here”). (Its deriving from an accusative ending is unlikely since the Arabic pronoun does not have such an ending. But compare xejn (“nothing”) from Arabic شَيْئاً‎ (šayʾan) for the basic possibility of Maltese reflexes of the indefinite accusative ending.)

dan (feminine din, plural dawn)

1. this

• dak

dan

1. Nonstandard spelling of dān.
2. Nonstandard spelling of dǎn.
3. Nonstandard spelling of dàn.

• 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.

dan

1. water
2. liquid

• Byron Wilbur Bender, Spoken Marshallese: An Intensive Language Course (1969, →ISBN, page 320

• IPA^(key): /dɑ̃/

From French dans

dan

1. in
2. within

dan

1. then, after that
2. then, in that case
3. thus, therefore

• Dutch: dan

dan

1. than (in comparisons)
2. other than (with negation)

• Dutch: dan

dan

1. Contraction of dat ne.

• “dan (V)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• “dan (VI)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• “dan (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, 1929

dan

1. don

From Old Frisian thīn.

dan m (feminine din, neuter din, plural din)

1. (Föhr-Amrum) your

dan

1. accusative and genitive singular of dat

From Proto-Slavic *dьnь (“day”).

• IPA^(key): /dâːn/
• Rhymes: -âːn

dȃn m (Cyrillic spelling да̑н)

1. day

• dánju
• dóbar dán
• dan i noć

From Proto-Slavic *dьnь (“day”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈdáːn/
• Tonal orthography: dȃn

dán m inan (genitive dnéva or dné, nominative plural dnévi)

1. day

• nóč

• (days of the week) dnévi v tédnu; ponedéljek, tôrek, sréda, četŕtek, pétek, sobóta, nedélja ^{(Category: sl:Days of the week)}
• dóber dán

See dati.

• IPA^(key): /ˈdàːn/
• Tonal orthography: dán

dán (not comparable)

1. given

• vzét, odvzét

• prodan
• predan

• IPA^(key): /dan/, [d̪ãn]

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dan

1. Second-person plural (ustedes) present indicative form of dar.
2. Third-person plural (ellos, ellas, also used with ustedes^?) present indicative form of dar.

dan

1. water

• Malcolm Ross, Andrew Pawley, Meredith Osmond (editors), The lexicon of Proto-Oceanic: The physical environment, Pacific Linguistics, 545-2. Australian National University, Canberra, 2003, page 59

• da'n

dan

1. Contraction of dagen., definite singular of dag

dan

1. water

• Cornelis L. Voorhoeve, Languages of Irian Jaya Checklist (1975, Canberra: Pacific Linguistics), page 128

dan (uncountable dans)

1. thanks

dan

1. water

• Mark Donohue, Warembori, Lincom Europa, 1999

• IPA^(key): /dan/

dan

1. Soft mutation of tan (“under”).

dan

1. (colloquial, North Wales) first-person plural present of bod

• ydym, ŷm (literary)
• ŷn (South Wales)

dan

1. (fresh) water

• Mats Exter, Phonetik und Phonologie des Wogeo (2003), Arbeitspapier, Neue Folge 46, Colonha, Institut für Sprachwissenschaft, Universität Köln, page 65
• Stephen Adolphe Wurm, New Guinea Area Languages and Language Study (1976)