stan

See also: Stan, śtan, stán, ştan, -stan, stan', and -стан

English

Etymology 1

Derived from the 2000 hip-hop song song "Stan" by the American rapper Eminem, a fictional account of the rapper's encounter with an overly obsessive fan of him. It has a back-formed etymology as a blend of stalker +‎ fan.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /stæn/

Noun

stan (plural stans)

  1. (slang, sometimes pejorative) A maniacally obsessive fan of a celebrity, particularly one whose fixation with the celebrity is unhealthy or intrusive.
Hypernyms

Verb

stan (third-person singular simple present stans, present participle stanning, simple past and past participle stanned)

  1. To act as a stan (for); to be an obsessive fan (of).
    • For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:stan.

Etymology 2

  • Back formation from names of countries that end with -stan.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /stɑːn/

Noun

stan (plural stans)

  1. Singular form of the generic term stans meaning some ex-Soviet countries and their neighbours whose name ends with "-stan" such as Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Kazakhstan.
    • 2015 July 30, Jules Boykoff, “Beijing and Almaty contest Winter Olympics in human rights nightmare”, in The Guardian‎[]:
    • This is a stan with a plan. Unlike Uzbekistan.

Anagrams

Albanian

Etymology

Borrowed from South Proto-Slavic *stanъ (“lodging”) (compare Bulgarian стан (stan) ‘camp’, Serbo-Croatian ста̑н (stȃn) ‘apartment’); Romanian stână and Greek στάνη (stáni) also from Slavic.

Noun

stan m

  1. shepherd's hut
  2. pen (for sheep)

Czech

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *stanъ.

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -an

Noun

stan m

  1. tent

Declension

Further reading

  • stan in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
  • stan in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

Middle English

Noun

stan (plural stanes or stan)

  1. Alternative form of stone

Old Dutch

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *stāną.

Verb

stān

  1. to stand

Descendants

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *stainaz, from Proto-Indo-European *steyh₂no-, *stih₂-no- (a suffixed form of *steyh₂- (“to be solid, to crowd together”)); cognate with Old Frisian stēn, Old Saxon stēn, Old Dutch stein (Dutch steen), Old High German stein (German Stein), Old Norse steinn (Danish and Swedish sten), Gothic 𐍃𐍄𐌰𐌹𐌽𐍃 (stains). The Indo-European root is also the source of Ancient Greek στῖον (stîon, “pebble”), Slavic *stēnā- (Bulgarian and Russian стена (stena), Czech stěna (“wall”)).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /stɑːn/

Noun

stān m

  1. stone

Declension

Derived terms

  • stānbeorg
  • stānbill
  • stānclif
  • stānclūd
  • stāncnoll
  • stāncynn
  • stānfāh
  • stānfæt
  • stānġiella
  • stānhīewet
  • stānhliþ
  • stāniġ

Descendants

Old Saxon

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *stāną.

Verb

stān

  1. to stand

Conjugation

Polish

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *stanъ.

Pronunciation

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Noun

stan m inan

  1. state (of affairs), condition
  2. state (political division of the United States)
  3. (rare) state (sovereign polity)

Declension

Further reading

  • stan in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *stanъ, from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- (“to stand, stay”), whence also stȁti (“to stand”), stȁviti (“to set, place”), stȁdo (“herd”) and stȏl (“table”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /stâːn/
  • Rhymes: -âːn

Noun

stȃn m (Cyrillic spelling ста̑н)

  1. flat, apartment
  2. loom (tkàlačkī stȃn)

Declension

Quotations

  • For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:stan.

Derived terms

References

  • “stan” in Hrvatski jezični portal

Slovak

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *stanъ, from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- (“to stand, stay”), whence also stáť (“to stand”), staviť (“to set, place”), stádo (“herd”) and stôl (“table”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈstan/
  • Rhymes: -an

Noun

stan m (genitive singular stanu, nominative plural stany, genitive plural stanov, declension pattern of dub)

  1. tent
  2. (slang) erection, hard-on

Declension

Further reading

  • stan in Slovak dictionaries at korpus.sk

Swedish

Alternative forms

  • sta'n

Etymology

Contraction of staden, definite singular of stad.

Noun

stan

  1. (colloquial) the town, the city
    på stan
    downtown

Usage notes

  • Stockholmers insist that stan always refers to Stockholm and no other cities. The phrase inte i stan (“not in the town”) to them means outside of Stockholm, but to other Swedes it means outside of any town, i.e. in the countryside.
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