kraan

From Middle Dutch crāne, from Old Dutch *crano, from Proto-West Germanic *kranō, from Proto-Germanic *kranô. The senses “tap” and “crane” as a machine are both based on resemblance with the bird's neck.

• IPA^(key): /kraːn/

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• Hyphenation: kraan
• Rhymes: -aːn

kraan f (plural kranen, diminutive kraantje n)

1. crane (machine for lifting)
2. tap, faucet

• (machine): hijskraan
• (tap): fontein, tap

• Afrikaans: kraan
• → Aukan: kalan
• → Caribbean Hindustani: krán
• → Malay: keran
  • Indonesian: keran
• → Japanese: カラン (karan)
• → Papiamentu: kranchi, kramchi (from the diminutive), kran, kraan
• → Russian: кран (kran) (or from Middle Low German krān) (see there for further descendants)
• → Saramaccan: kalán
• → Sranan Tongo: krân
  • → Caribbean Javanese: krang

kraan m (plural kranen, diminutive kraantje n)

1. (obsolete) crane (bird)

• (bird): kraanvogel

• kraanvogel
• kroonkraan

• Negerhollands: kren

From either Middle Low German krān or German Kran. See also kraana.

kraan (genitive kraani, partitive kraani)

1. tap, faucet