jan

jan

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Janday.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Janday terms

• jân, jann

From Arabic جَنّ (jann)

jan

1. Obsolete form of jinn.
   • 1888, Charles Montagu Doughty, Travels in Arabia Deserta:

     He cast out the demons of possessed persons, and he bound the jân, wellah, in yonder corner.

• jan ken po

• JNA, Jna.

• ejan

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *haʀəzan.

jan (Balinese script ᬚᬦ᭄)

1. ladder
2. stair

• “jan” in Balinese–Indonesian Dictionary [Kamus Bahasa Bali–Indonesia], Denpasar, Indonesia: The Linguistic Center of Bali Province [Balai Bahasa Provinsi Bali].

• IPA^(key): [dʒã˦ã˨]

jan

1. trap (device to catch animals)

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

Inherited from Proto-Basque *j-a(n)-, from the root *-a(n)-. ^[1]

• IPA^(key): (Navarro-Lapurdian) /ɟan/ [ɟãn]

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -an
• Hyphenation: jan
• (Soule) IPA^(key): [ʒan]

jan inan

1. food

   Synonym: janari

jan du (imperfect participle jaten, future participle jango or janen, short form jan, verbal noun jate)

1. to eat
2. to eat away, corrode

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• “jan”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy] (in Basque), Euskaltzaindia [Royal Academy of the Basque Language]
• “jan”, in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], Euskaltzaindia, 1987–2005

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *quzan, from Proto-Austronesian *quzaN.

jan

1. rain (condensed water from a cloud)

Shortening of Joan.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈʒan]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈd͡ʒan]

jan m (plural jans)

1. only used in bon jan

• “jan” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
• “jan”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

• yan, jain, yain, ian, iain

From Latin annus.

• IPA^(key): /jaŋ/

jan m (plural jain or jein)

1. year

• jein

• IPA^(key): /ʒɑ̃/

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

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jan m (plural jans)

1. Each of the two tables in trictrac

   Je remplis mon grand jan par doublet : six points pour moi.

   I filled my grand jan by doublet: six points for me.

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

Inherited from French genre

• IPA^(key): /ʒã/

jan

1. type, sort, kind (of)
2. genre

• ki jan

jan

1. Rōmaji transcription of じゃん

jan

1. January; abbreviation of januari

• jan - feb - mar - apr - maj - jun - jul - aug - sep - okt - nov - dec

• nja

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒan/ [ˈd͡ʒan̪]
  • IPA^(key): (no palatal assimilation) /ˈdjan/ [ˈd̪jan̪]
• Rhymes: -an
• Syllabification: jan

jan (Baybayin spelling ᜇ᜔ᜌᜈ᜔) (text messaging, colloquial)

1. alternative spelling of diyan

• IPA^(key): /d͡ʒã̀/

jàn

1. to bang something with another
2. (idiomatic) to fail an examination or test

• jànmọ́