fant

See also: Fant

Manx

Verb

fant

1. past participle of fann

Mutation

Manx mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
fant	ant	vant
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

fant

1. simple past of finne

Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fant/
• (Trøndelag) IPA^(key): /faɲc/

Noun

fant m (definite singular fanten, indefinite plural fantar, definite plural fantane)

1. vagabond, tramp

   Synonym: ståtar

2. (ethnic slur, often offensive) the same as tater (a kind of Norwegian Gypsies)

Derived terms

• fantegut
• fantefut
• fantemål
• fanteri
• raka fant

Old English

Alternative forms

• font

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin fons.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fɑnt/

Noun

fant m

1. font, fountain, spring

References

• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “fant”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎^[1], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from German Pfand, from Middle High German phant, from Old High German phant.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfant/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ant
• Syllabification: fant

Noun

fant m inan

1. (colloquial) security, deposit (item temporarily relinquished to guarantee something)
2. (colloquial) thingy, widget, gizmo (unspecified object)
3. (slang, especially criminal slang, chiefly in the plural) loot (stolen item)
   • 1999, Małgorzata Karpińska, Złodzieje, agenci, policyjni strażnicy: przestępstwa pospolite w Warszawie 1815-1830, Wyd. Dig:

     Złodzieje w przypadku zagrożenia lub raczej przedstawiciele „proletariatu złodziejskiego” chronili się jak włóczędzy w licznych jeszcze wtedy ruinach pałaców. Tam też odnajdywano niekiedy skradzione „fanty”.

     Thieves, in case of emergency, or rather representatives of the "thieves' proletariat" protected themselves like vagabons in the numerous ruins of the castle. Sometimes one could also find there stolen "loot".

   • 2015 June 8, Jarosław Ruszkiewicz, Syndrom Everetta: Ulysses, Drageus, →ISBN:

     Skradziony fant miał trafić w jego ręce i to była szansa, żeby przyłapać go wreszcie na gorącym uczynku.

     The stolen loot was supposed to end up in his hands there was a chance to catch him im the act.

   • 2020 December 23, Krzysztof Beśka, Wieczorny seans, Lindhardt og Ringhof, →ISBN:

     Dwa celne ciosy wystarczyły, żeby złodziej, obok juchy, puścił też farbę. Po fanty komisarz musiał się jednak pofatygować nieco dalej.

     Two successful hits were enough to spill more than blood; the thief spilt the beans. As for the loot, the commissioner had to stretch his legs a bit in order to retrieve them.

Declension

Declension of fant

	singular	plural
nominative	fant	fanty
genitive	fantu	fantów
dative	fantowi	fantom
accusative	fant	fanty
instrumental	fantem	fantami
locative	fancie	fantach
vocative	fancie	fanty

Derived terms

adjective

• fantowy

 

Further reading

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

Slovene

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian fante.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fánt/

Noun

fȁnt m anim

1. boy (a young, unmarried male)
2. boyfriend
3. jack, knave (in a card game)

Inflection

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.

Masculine anim., hard o-stem
nom. sing.	fànt
gen. sing.	fánta
	singular	dual	plural
nominative (imenovȃlnik)	fànt	fánta	fántje fánti
genitive (rodȋlnik)	fánta	fántov	fántov
dative (dajȃlnik)	fántu	fántoma	fántom
accusative (tožȋlnik)	fánta	fánta	fánte
locative (mẹ̑stnik)	fántu	fántih	fántih
instrumental (orọ̑dnik)	fántom	fántoma	fánti

See also

Playing cards in Slovene · igralne karte (layout · text)
as, enka	dvojka	trojka	štirka, štirica	petka, petica	šestka, šestica	sedemka, sedmica
osmica	devetka, devetica	desetka, desetica	fant	kraljica, dama	kralj	joker

Further reading

• “fant”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene), 2014–2024