jan

• 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.

• IPA^(key): [dʒã˦ã˨]

jan

1. trap (device to catch animals)

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

• IPA^(key): (Southern) /xan/, [xãn]
• IPA^(key): (Northern) /jan/, [jãn]
  • (Biscayan) IPA^(key): [d͡ʒan]
  • (Gipuzkoan) IPA^(key): [xan]
  • (Navarrese) IPA^(key): [jan]
  • (Navarro-Lapurdian) IPA^(key): [ɟan]
  • (Souletin) IPA^(key): [ʒan]

jan inan

1. food

   Synonym: janari

jan du (present participle jaten, future participle jango, short form jan, verbal noun jate)

1. to eat
2. to eat away, corrode

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

jan

1. rain (condensed water from a cloud)

Shortening of Joan.

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /ˈʒan/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /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, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

• yan, jain, yain

From Latin annus.

• IPA^(key): /jaŋ/

jan m (plural jain or jein)

1. year

• jein

• IPA^(key): /ʒɑ̃/

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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.

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

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

jan

1. (text messaging) Alternative spelling of diyan.

• IPA^(key): /d͡ʒã̀/

jàn

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

• jànmọ́

jan (intransitive)

1. to eat

• jaant