san

See also: Appendix:Variations of "san"

English

Etymology 1

san

Noun

san (plural sans)

  1. A letter of the Archaic Greek alphabet (uppercase Ϻ, lowercase ϻ) that came after pi and before qoppa.

See also

Etymology 2

Shortening of sanatorium.

Pronunciation

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Noun

san (plural sans)

  1. (dated, informal) A sanatorium.
    • 1940, Enid Blyton, The Naughtiest Girl in the School
      "Haven't you heard?" said Belinda. "Joan's ill! She'd got a high temperature, and she's in bed in the San."
    • 1958, Doris Lessing, A Ripple From the Storm, HarperPerennial 1995, p. 122:
      ‘I was in the san for ten months before the war. I know all the gen about being sick.’
    • 2005, Dan Soucoup, ‎Richard Thorne McCully, McCully's New Brunswick (page 137)
      River Glade Sanatorium, River Glade, June 25, 1931. The "San" at River Glade with the Petitcodiac River in the background.

Anagrams

Catalan

Noun

san f (plural sans)

  1. San; the Archaic Greek letter Ϻ (lowercase ϻ).

Classical Nahuatl

Particle

san

  1. Alternative spelling of zan

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /san/

Noun

san m (plural san)

  1. san (Greek letter)

Anagrams

Garifuna

Etymology

Probably from French cent.

Numeral

san

  1. (cardinal) hundred

Haitian Creole

Etymology 1

From French cent (“hundred”)

Numeral

san

  1. (cardinal) hundred

Etymology 2

From French sang (“blood”)

Noun

san

  1. blood

Irish

Etymology

From earlier ins an, from Old Irish issin(d), from Proto-Celtic *in sindū/sindai (“in the m sg/f sg dative”) and *in sindom/sindam (“into the m sg/f sg accusative”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sˠənˠ/ (before a, o, u, fha, fho, fhu)
  • IPA(key): /sˠənʲ/ (before e, i, fhe, fhi)

Contraction

san

  1. preposition i + definite article an: in the (singular)

Usage notes

Used before vowel sounds and f (which lenites):

  • san amhrán ― in the song
  • san fhocal ― in the word

Further reading

  • "san" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
  • Entries containing “san” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

Italian

Etymology 1

Noun

san m, f (invariable)

  1. san (Greek letter)

Etymology 2

Noun

san m (invariable)

  1. (used before a consonant) Apocopic form of santo saint
    San Pietro — “Saint Peter”

See also

Japanese

Romanization

san

  1. Rōmaji transcription of さん
  2. Rōmaji transcription of サン

Kuna

Noun

san

  1. meat

Mandarin

Romanization

san (Zhuyin ˙ㄙㄢ)

  1. Pinyin transcription of 𠮿

san

  1. Nonstandard spelling of sān.
  2. Nonstandard spelling of sǎn.
  3. Nonstandard spelling of sàn.

Usage notes

  • English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

Middle English

Verb

sãn

  1. Alternative form of seien

Norman

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin sum, from Classical Latin suum

Pronunciation

  • Audio (Jersey)(file)

Determiner

san m

  1. (Jersey) his, her, its (used to qualify masculine nouns)

North Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian sunne. Cognates include West Frisian sinne.

Noun

san m

  1. (Mooring and Föhr-Amrum dialects) sun
    (Föhr-Amrum) a san gungt up
    The sun rises.
    (Föhr-Amrum) a san gungt oner
    The sun sets.

Old French

Noun

san m (oblique plural sans, nominative singular sans, nominative plural san)

  1. Alternative form of sens

Rohingya

Etymology

From Sanskrit candra; cognate with Bengali চাঁদ (cãdô).

Noun

san

  1. moon

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From anns + an, from Old Irish issin(d), from Proto-Celtic *in sindū/sindai (“in the m sg/f sg dative”) and *in sindom/sindam (“into the m sg/f sg accusative”).

Preposition

san

  1. in the

Usage notes

  • This form is not used before nouns beginning with b, c, g, m or p, where sa' is used instead.
  • If followed by f, the f is lenited.
    facal - word
    san fhacal - in the word

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *sъnъ, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *supnas, from Proto-Indo-European *swépnos, *súpnos (“sleep, slumber; dream”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sân/

Noun

sȁn m (Cyrillic spelling са̏н)

  1. dream

Declension

Derived terms

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /san/, [sãn]
  • Rhymes: -an

Etymology 1

Alternative forms

  • (in proper nouns, capitalized) San

Adjective

san m (apocopate, standard form santo)

  1. (before the noun) Apocopic form of santo ("saint")
Usage notes

Not used in front of the following names (use santo instead): Tomás, Tomé, Toribio y Domingo.

Noun

san m (plural sanes)

  1. (Dominican Republic) financial, temporal-savings scheme. The participants periodically contribute a quota to a communal pot that is given to one member, based on his/her turn amongst all the others.

Etymology 2

Noun

san f (plural sanes)

  1. san; the Greek letter M, ϻ

Ter Sami

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian са́ни (sáni).

Noun

san

  1. sledge, sleigh

Further reading

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English sun

Noun

san

  1. sun
    • 1989, Buk Baibel long Tok Pisin, Bible Society of Papua New Guinea, Genesis 1:15 (translation here):
      God i mekim kamap tupela bikpela lait. Bikpela em san bilong givim lait long de, na liklik em mun bilong givim lait long nait. Na God i mekim kamap ol sta tu.

Derived terms

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Torres Strait Creole

Etymology

From English sun.

Noun

san

  1. sun

Turkish

Noun

san (definite accusative {{{1}}}, plural {{{2}}})

  1. name
  2. reputation

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

Verb

san

  1. to flatten
  2. to make equal

Derived terms

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