Catalan

From Middle English Catalane, from French Catalan, from Catalan català.

• enPR: kăt'ə-lăn, IPA^(key): /ˈkæ.təˌlæn/, /ˈkæ.tə.lən/

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Catalan (plural Catalans)

1. A native or inhabitant of Catalonia, Spain.

   Synonym: Catalonian

   • 2017 October 22, Sam Jones, “Catalonia weighs up declaration of independence”, in The Guardian‎^[1], archived from the original on 30 March 2018:

     Even if he draws back from a declaration, many Catalans – including Mossos and civil servants – may decide to not to obey orders from Madrid, and tens of thousands of people could take to the streets to protect key regional government institutions.

Catalan

2. The Romance language of Catalonia, an autonomous region in the northeast of Spain, also spoken in the Valencian autonomous region (where the language is officially named valencià), the Balearic Islands, Andorra, Roussillon in France, and the Sardinian city of Alghero.

   Synonym: Catalonian

   • 2001 December 2, Giles Milton, “'The Riddle and the Knight'”, in The New York Times‎^[2], archived from the original on 19 April 2022:

     By the time this mysterious knight died in the 1360s, his book was available in every European language, including Dutch, Gaelic, Czech, Catalan, and Walloon.

   • 2017 October 6, Adrianne Jeffries, “The Daily Stormer just lost its new .cat domain”, in The Outline‎^[3]:

     Websites on the .cat domain are required to have content in the Catalan language.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Catalan.
3. A surname from Spanish.

• Catalan number

Catalan (not comparable)

1. Of, from or relating to Catalonia, Spain.
   • 2023 November 5, Sam Jones, “PSOE members back Catalan amnesty plan to secure power in Spain”, in The Guardian‎^[4], →ISSN, archived from the original on 8 November 2023:

     The PSOE leader, who once promised to bring Puigdemont back to Spain to face justice, risked considerable political capital two years ago by pardoning nine of the Catalan leaders behind the drive for secession.

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:Catalan.

• Catalonian

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Catalan terms
• Appendix:Catalan Swadesh list for a Swadesh list of basic vocabulary words in Catalan

• [5] Open source English-Catalan, Catalan-English Dictionary.
• ISO 639-1 code ca, ISO 639-3 code cat (SIL)
• Ethnologue entry for Catalan, cat ⁠

• cantala

• Hyphenation: Ca‧ta‧lan

Catalan

1. a surname from Spanish
2. the Catalan language

Catalan

1. Catalan, Catalonian (native or inhabitant of Catalonia, Spain)

Catalan

1. Catalan, Catalonian (of, from or relating to Catalonia, Spain)

Borrowed from Spanish catalán.

• IPA^(key): /ka.ta.lɑ̃/

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Catalan m (plural Catalans, feminine Catalane)

1. Catalan, Catalonian (native or inhabitant of Catalonia, Spain) (usually male)

• “Catalan”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.