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klan

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See also: Klan, klán, and klän

English

Proper noun

the klan

  1. 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

  1. hard mutation of glan

Danish

Etymology

From English clan.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /klaːn/, [kʰlæːˀn]

Noun

klan c (singular definite klanen, plural indefinite klaner)

  1. clan

Inflection

More information common gender, singular ...

Further reading

Indonesian

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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

  • IPA(key): [ˈklan]
  • Hyphenation: klan

Noun

klan (plural klan-klan)

  1. clan

Alternative forms

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Norwegian Bokmål

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Etymology

From Scottish Gaelic clann, via English clan.

Noun

klan m (definite singular klanen, indefinite plural klaner, definite plural klanene)

  1. a clan

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Scottish Gaelic clann, via English clan.

Noun

klan m (definite singular klanen, indefinite plural klanar, definite plural klanane)

  1. a clan

References

Polish

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Etymology

Borrowed from English clan, from Scottish Gaelic clann, from Old Irish cland, from Old Welsh plant, from Latin planta.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈklan/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -an
  • Syllabification: klan

Noun

klan m inan (diminutive klanik)

  1. (literary) clan (group of people all descended from a common ancestor)
    Synonym: ród
  2. (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
  3. (historical) clan (traditional social group of families in the Scottish Highlands having a common hereditary chieftain)
  4. (literary) clique (group of people)
    Synonyms: klika, koteria, sitwa

Declension

Derived terms

adjective
  • klanowy
noun
  • klanowość

Further reading

  • klan in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • klan in Polish dictionaries at PWN
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Serbo-Croatian

Participle

klan (Cyrillic spelling клан)

  1. passive past participle of klȁti

Swedish

Noun

klan c

  1. 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

More information nominative, genitive ...

References

Turkish

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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)

  1. (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)
    Synonyms: aşiret, boy, kabile
  2. (historical) clan (traditional social group of families in the Scottish Highlands having a common hereditary chieftain)

Declension

More information singular, plural ...
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