partan

See also: Partan and partán

Galician

Verb

partan

1. inflection of partir:
   1. third-person plural present subjunctive
   2. third-person plural imperative

Scots

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partan

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Etymology

From Old Irish partán.

Noun

partan (plural partans)

1. edible crab (Cancer pagurus)
   • 1894, Sir John Foulis, Arthur Washington Hallen, The Account Book of Sir John Foulis of Ravelston 1671-1707‎, page 279:

     For dinner at ye lodging wt Lady dunipace, mrs abigaill and my tuo sones and servants lapster and partans and brandie.

     For dinner at the lodging with Lady Dunipace, Mrs. Abigail and my two sons and servants lobster and crab and brandy.

Derived terms

• partan bree

References

• “partan, n.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, retrieved 24 May 2024, reproduced from William A[lexander] Craigie, A[dam] J[ack] Aitken [et al.], editors, A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue: […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1931–2002, →OCLC.
• “partan, n.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, retrieved 24 May 2024, reproduced from W[illiam] Grant and D[avid] D. Murison, editors, The Scottish National Dictionary, Edinburgh: Scottish National Dictionary Association, 1931–1976, →OCLC.