chan

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃæn/

• Audio (Southern England)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -æn

Clipping of channel.

chan (plural chans)

1. (Internet, informal) An IRC channel.
   • 1997, Dominic Donegan, “Is there a #nethack chan on IRC?”, in rec.games.roguelike.nethack (Usenet):

     I tried, but I never get anyone in the chan! I don't know how/where to advertise... maybe we should set up a meeting time or something?

   • 1999, Jonny Durango, “IMPORTANT NEWS FOR AHM IRC CHAN!!!”, in alt.hackers.malicious (Usenet):

     If you don't have your password set within a week I'll remove you from the userlist and I'll add you again next time I see you in the chan and make sure you set a pass.

• chanop

From 4chan, a popular imageboard; ultimately from channel.

chan (plural chans)

1. (Internet, informal) An imageboard.

   more niche chans

• -chan

• Cahn

From French champ.

chan

1. free space; open land

From Proto-Mayan *kaahn.

chan

1. snake

• chá, chao

From Old Galician-Portuguese chão, from Latin plānum. Compare Portuguese chão, Spanish llano.

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃaŋ/

chan m (plural chans)

1. floor

   Synonym: solo

2. ground

   Synonym: solo

3. (geography) plateau

chan (feminine chá, masculine plural chans, feminine plural chás)

1. level; flat
2. plain

• Chá
• Chan
• Chao
• Chaodarcas
• Chaos

• chaira
• chaela
• chancela
• chanzo
• chelo
• Chelo
• Chenlo

• “chao” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “chão” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “chan” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “chan” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “chan” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

From Middle Irish nocon, nochon, from Old Irish nícon, nacon, from ní con.

• (before a, o, u, fha, fho, fhu) IPA^(key): [xan̪ˠ]
• (before e, i, fhe, fhi) IPA^(key): [xanʲ]

chan

1. (Ulster) not

   Chan ólann sé. ― He does not drink.

   Chan fhanann sé. ― He will not wait.

Used only in some varieties of Ulster Irish. Used only before a vowel sound.

• ní (used in Munster Irish, Connacht Irish, and some varieties of Ulster Irish)

• cha (used before a consonant)
• char (used with the past tense)

• IPA^(key): [xan̪ˠ]

chan

1. past analytic of can

• chanas (1st person sing. synthetic, nonstandard)
• chanais (2d person sing. synthetic, nonstandard)
• chanamar (1st person pl. synthetic)
• chanabhar (2d person pl. synthetic, nonstandard)
• chanadar (3d person pl. synthetic, nonstandard)
• canadh (autonomous)

• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “nícon”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “chan”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language‎, Stirling, →ISBN

chan

1. Rōmaji transcription of ちゃん

chan m (Latin spelling)

1. bell

chan

1. Nonstandard spelling of chān.
2. Nonstandard spelling of chán.
3. Nonstandard spelling of chǎn.
4. Nonstandard spelling of chàn.

• Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.

chan

1. vagina

• Nafaanra Dictionary

Deverbal of chantar.

chan m (oblique plural chans, nominative singular chans, nominative plural chan)

1. song

• chantador
• chantar
• chanso
• chansoneta
• enchantar
• enchantamen

From Proto-Nahuan *chaːn-. Compare Classical Nahuatl chāntli (“home”).

• (standard) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃaŋ/

-chan

1. at or to one's home or house

   Tiajket ka nuchan pal titakwat

   We went to my house to eat

From Turkish kan (“prince, lord”)/khān, contraction of khaqan (“sovereign, ruler”).

• IPA^(key): /xan/

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -an
• Syllabification: chan

chan m pers

1. khan (ruler)

• chan in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• chan in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Unadapted borrowing from English chan.

chan m (plural chans)

1. (Internet) chan, imageboard

• channer

• chaun (Rumantsch Grischun, Puter)
• tgaun (Sursilvan)
• tgàn (Sutsilvan)
• tgang (Surmiran)

From Latin canis, canem.

chan m (plural chans)

1. (Vallader) (male) dog

• (sex): chagna

From Middle Irish nochan, from Old Irish nícon, from ní (“not”) + con (“toward”). Cognates include Irish chan and Manx chan.

• (obsolete) cha'n

• IPA^(key): /xan̪ˠ/ (before a back vowel sound)
• IPA^(key): /xaɲ/ (before a front vowel sound)
• Hyphenation: chan

chan

1. Form of cha used before vowels and fh-

   Chan fhaca mi i. ― I haven't seen her.

   Chan eil mi fuar. ― I am not cold.

   An t-aran, chan ùr e. ― The bread, it's not fresh.

• IPA^(key): /xan/

chan

1. inflection of can:
   1. negative dependent future
   2. past (rare, usually thuirt)

• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “nícon”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “cha, cha’n”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language‎, Stirling, →ISBN, page 81
• Colin Mark (2003) “chan”, in The Gaelic-English dictionary, London: Routledge, →ISBN, page 129

From Classical Nahuatl chian, obsolete spelling of chiyan (“chia”). This is the same source as chía, which lost the final n in Mexican dialects.

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃan/ [ˈt͡ʃãn]
• Rhymes: -an
• Syllabification: chan

chan m (plural chanes)

1. (Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras) Alternative form of chía
   • 2002, Rodrigo Crespo A., Comiendo pura vida, page 135:

     Los aderezos de semillas y nueces se preparan licuando semillas remojadas de linaza, girasol, chan...

     Seasonings from seeds and nuts are prepared by blending soaked linseed, sunflower seeds, chia seeds...

• Ayerca, Ricardo & Coates, Wayne (2005: Chia: Rediscovering a Forgotten Crop of the Aztecs, p. 64

• “chan”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

From Proto-Mayan *kaahn.

chan

1. snake

chan

1. (transitive) to learn

• Laughlin, Robert M. [et al.] (1988) The Great Tzotzil Dictionary of Santo Domingo Zinacantán, vol. I. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press.

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [t͡ɕaːn˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [t͡ɕaːŋ˧˧]
• (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [caːŋ˧˧]

chan • (滇, 𬉌)

1. to pour sauce, soup or broth over solid food

   chan canh/mắm ― to pour broth/nước mắm

• chan chứa
• chan hoà

chan

1. Aspirate mutation of can.

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃan/

chan

1. small

   Synonyms: chichan; mejen