duan

See also: Duan, duán, duàn, duān, and duǎn

English

Etymology

From Irish and Scottish Gaelic duan, from Middle Irish dúan, from Proto-Indo-European *dh₂p-no- (compare Old Armenian տաւն (tawn, “feast, celebration”), Ancient Greek δαπάνη (dapánē, “cost”), Old Norse tafn (“sacrificial animal”) and Latin damnum (“damage”)), from *deh₂p- (“to sacrifice”).

Noun

duan (plural duans)

1. A division of a poem, especially an epic poem or a Scottish poem; a canto.
   • 1819–1824, [Lord Byron], Don Juan, London, (please specify |canto=I to XVII):

     Till what is call'd, in Ossian, the fifth Duan

2. A poem or song.

References

• “duan”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• Danu, Duna, Düna

Albanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈduan/, [ˈduː.än]

Verb

duan

1. third-person plural present indicative/subjunctive of dua

Esperanto

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈduan]

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• Rhymes: -uan
• Hyphenation: du‧an

Adjective

duan

1. accusative singular of dua

Irish

Etymology

From Middle Irish dúan, from Proto-Indo-European *dh₂p-no- (compare Old Armenian տաւն (tawn, “feast, celebration”), Ancient Greek δαπάνη (dapánē, “cost”), Old Norse tafn (“sacrificial animal”) and Latin damnum (“damage”)), from *deh₂p- (“to sacrifice”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d̪ˠuən̪ˠ/, /d̪ˠuənˠ/

Noun

duan m (genitive singular duain, nominative plural duanta)

1. poem
2. song

Declension

Declension of duan (first declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative duan duanta vocative a dhuain a dhuanta genitive duain duanta dative duan duanta forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an duan na duanta genitive an duain na nduanta dative leis an duan don duan leis na duanta

Mutation

Mutated forms of duan

radical	lenition	eclipsis
duan	dhuan	nduan

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “dúan”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “duan”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

Mandarin

Romanization

duan

1. Nonstandard spelling of duān.
2. Nonstandard spelling of duǎn.
3. Nonstandard spelling of duàn.

Usage notes

• 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.

Old Frisian

Verb

duān

1. Alternative spelling of dwā

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Middle Irish dúan, from Proto-Indo-European *dh₂p-no- (compare Old Armenian տաւն (tawn, “feast, celebration”), Ancient Greek δαπάνη (dapánē, “cost”), Old Norse tafn (“sacrificial animal”) and Latin damnum (“damage”)), from *deh₂p- (“to sacrifice”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t̪uən/

Noun

duan m (genitive singular duain, plural duain)

1. poem
2. song

Synonyms

• dàn, òran