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klan
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English
Proper noun
the klan
- Alternative letter-case form of Klan.
- 2009 January 30, “Obama presidency 'ignites Ku Klux Klan'”, in Herald Sun:
- "It's serious, serious enough that the FBI ... and other law enforcement agencies are trying to get on top of it because the klan has made direct threats to Obama," pastor Clary, who now fights against the group as a born-again Christian, said.
- 2024 November 17, Howie Klein, “A Plurality Of American Voters Have Embraced Kakistocracy As Their Preferred Form Of Governance”, in DownWithTyranny, archived from the original on 18 November 2024:
- She nearly ran for the open Senate seat in North Carolina in 2021 even though she had moved with the rest of the Trumpanzee klan to Florida.
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Breton
Adjective
klan
- hard mutation of glan
Danish
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
klan c (singular definite klanen, plural indefinite klaner)
Inflection
Further reading
klan on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia da
Indonesian
Etymology
From Dutch clan, from English clan, from Irish clann (“offspring, children of the family”) and Scottish Gaelic clann, from Old Irish cland, from Old Welsh plant, from Latin planta (“shoot, offspring”).
Pronunciation
Noun
Alternative forms
Further reading
- “klan”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016
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Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Scottish Gaelic clann, via English clan.
Noun
klan m (definite singular klanen, indefinite plural klaner, definite plural klanene)
- a clan
References
- “klan” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Scottish Gaelic clann, via English clan.
Noun
klan m (definite singular klanen, indefinite plural klanar, definite plural klanane)
- a clan
References
- “klan” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Polish
Etymology
Borrowed from English clan, from Scottish Gaelic clann, from Old Irish cland, from Old Welsh plant, from Latin planta.
Pronunciation
Noun
klan m inan (diminutive klanik)
- (literary) clan (group of people all descended from a common ancestor)
- Synonym: ród
- (anthropology) tribal community (primitive community descended from a common ancestor, living in a common territory, sharing a common name and subject to the authority of a single chieftain)
- Synonym: ród
- (historical) clan (traditional social group of families in the Scottish Highlands having a common hereditary chieftain)
- (literary) clique (group of people)
Declension
Declension of klan
Derived terms
adjective
- klanowy
Related terms
noun
- klanowość
Further reading
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Serbo-Croatian
Participle
klan (Cyrillic spelling клан)
Swedish
Noun
klan c
- a clan
- 2016, Sinan, “Stockholm city”:
- Alla har sin bas, och alla har sin klan. Skjuter mot varandra som i Afghanistan.
- Everyone has their base, and everyone has their clan. Shooting at each other like in Afghanistan.
Declension
References
Turkish
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish [script needed] (klan), from French clan, from English clan, from Scottish Gaelic clann, from Old Irish cland, from Old Welsh plant, from Latin planta.
Noun
klan (definite accusative klanı, plural klanlar)
- (anthropology) tribal community (primitive community descended from a common ancestor, living in a common territory, sharing a common name and subject to the authority of a single chieftain)
- (historical) clan (traditional social group of families in the Scottish Highlands having a common hereditary chieftain)
Declension
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