stan

Derived from the 2000 hip-hop song "Stan" by the American rapper Eminem, a fictional account of the rapper's encounter with an overly obsessive fan.

• (UK, North America) IPA^(key): /stæn/
• enPR: stăn

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stan (plural stans)

1. (slang, sometimes derogatory) A maniacally obsessive fan of a celebrity, particularly one whose fixation with the celebrity is unhealthy or intrusive.
   • 2011, Vanessa Spates, "Whether in Britney's Army or Rihanna's Navy, stans need to surrender to sanity", The Lantern (Ohio State University), Volume 132, Number 16, 11 October 2011, page 9A:

     I know the in-depth detailed life of a stan because I am one. I'm one of those Lady Gaga fans, […]

   • 2013, "Selena Gomez: She Is My Queen", Sunday Tribune (South Africa), 17 March 2013:

     I am the biggest stan for Selena because she is my queen. She made Disney interesting and I have always watched her.

   • 2013, Jake Folsom, "Stans take dedication to extreme heights online, in real life", Washington Square News, Volume 41, Number 104, 5 December 2013, page 11:

     Incidents have occurred with stans showing up to pop stars' residences, as has happened with Madonna, Taylor Swift and others.

• megafan, superfan, trufan, uberfan

stan (third-person singular simple present stans, present participle stanning, simple past and past participle stanned)

1. To act as a stan (for); to be an obsessive fan (of).
   • For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:stan.

• Back formation from names of countries that end with -stan.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /stɑːn/
• (US) IPA^(key): /stɑn/
• enPR: stän

stan (plural stans)

1. Singular form of the generic term stans meaning some ex-Soviet countries and their neighbours whose name ends with "-stan" such as Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Kazakhstan.
   • 2015 July 30, Jules Boykoff, “Beijing and Almaty contest Winter Olympics in human rights nightmare”, in The Guardian‎^[]:

   • This is a stan with a plan. Unlike Uzbekistan.

• ASNT, NTAs, Nast, Nats, Sant, Tans, Tsan, ants, nats, tans

Borrowed from South Proto-Slavic *stanъ (“lodging”) (compare Bulgarian стан (stan) ‘camp’, Serbo-Croatian ста̑н (stȃn) ‘apartment’); Romanian stână and Greek στάνη (stáni) also from Slavic.

stan m

1. shepherd's hut
2. pen (for sheep)

From Proto-Slavic *stanъ.

• Rhymes: -an

stan m

1. tent

• stan in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• stan in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

stan (plural stanes or stan)

1. Alternative form of stone

From Proto-Germanic *stāną.

stān

1. to stand

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

• antstān
• bistān
• farstān

• Middle Dutch: stâen
  • Dutch: staan
  • Limburgish: staon

• “stān”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

From Proto-Germanic *stainaz, from Proto-Indo-European *steyh₂no-, *stih₂-no- (a suffixed form of *steyh₂- (“to be solid, to crowd together”)); cognate with Old Frisian stēn, Old Saxon stēn, Old Dutch stein (Dutch steen), Old High German stein (German Stein), Old Norse steinn (Danish and Swedish sten), Gothic 𐍃𐍄𐌰𐌹𐌽𐍃 (stains). The Indo-European root is also the source of Ancient Greek στῖον (stîon, “pebble”), Slavic *stēnā- (Bulgarian and Russian стена (stena), Czech stěna (“wall”)).

• IPA^(key): /stɑːn/

stān m

1. stone

• Middle English: stone, ston, stan
  • English: stone
  • Northumbrian: styen
  • Scots: stane
  • Yola: sthoan

• standan

From Proto-Germanic *stāną.

stān

1. to stand

From Proto-Slavic *stanъ.

• IPA^(key): /stan/

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stan m inan

1. state (of affairs), condition
2. state (political division of the United States)
3. (rare) state (sovereign polity)

• stan in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN

• stan in Polish dictionaries at PWN

From Proto-Slavic *stanъ, from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- (“to stand, stay”), whence also stȁti (“to stand”), stȁviti (“to set, place”), stȁdo (“herd”) and stȏl (“table”).

• IPA^(key): /stâːn/
• Rhymes: -âːn

stȃn m (Cyrillic spelling ста̑н)

1. flat, apartment
2. loom (tkàlačkī stȃn)

• For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:stan.

• stàmbenī
• stànār
  • sȕstanār
    • sȕstanārka

• “stan” in Hrvatski jezični portal

From Proto-Slavic *stanъ, from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- (“to stand, stay”), whence also stáť (“to stand”), staviť (“to set, place”), stádo (“herd”) and stôl (“table”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈstan/
• Rhymes: -an

stan m (genitive singular stanu, nominative plural stany, genitive plural stanov, declension pattern of dub)

1. tent
2. (slang) erection, hard-on

• stan in Slovak dictionaries at korpus.sk

• sta'n

Contraction of staden, definite singular of stad.

stan

1. (colloquial) the town, the city

   på stan

   downtown

• Stockholmers insist that stan always refers to Stockholm and no other cities. The phrase inte i stan (“not in the town”) to them means outside of Stockholm, but to other Swedes it means outside of any town, i.e. in the countryside.