Fan

See also: Appendix:Variations of "fan"

English

Etymology 1

Shortening of Fanny, itself a short form of Frances.

Proper noun

Fan

1. A diminutive of Frances.
   • 1870, Thomas Wright, The bane of a life, volume 2, page 109:

     I see now what brings you about our house so much. You want to get hold of Fan and her business and little savings for yourself, do you?

   • 1917, Edna Ferber, Fanny Herself, page 173:

     Listen, Fan. That cowardly, sickly little boy you fought for in the street, that day in Winnebago, showed every sign of growing up a cowardly, sickly man.

Etymology 2

From Mandarin 范 (Fàn).

Proper noun

Fan

1. A county of Puyang, Henan, China.
   • 1966, Tien-chien Hwang, Communist China's Setbacks and Internal Tensions in 1965‎^[1], volume 2, →OCLC, →OL, page 34:

     In a report boasting of the rich supply of commodities in Fan County of Honan Province , the Peiping Ta Kung Pao of 1 December 1965 pointed out: “ Within 10 days before the autumn festival of this year, the commercial organs in Fan County[...]

   • [1980, Li Mingxin (Li Min-Hsin), Li Ping, Li Baorong (Li Pao-Jung), “Recent Progress in Research on Esophageal Cancer in China”, in Advances in Cancer Research‎^[2], volume 33, Academic Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 193:

     In a commune in Fanxian county, Henan province, a low-incidence area, two cases of pharyngoesophageal cancer were detected among 11,399 chickens over 6 months of age, showing an incidence rate of 17.55 per 100,000.]

   • 2003, Yingpin (张英聘) Zhang, “Chasing the Deer on the Central Plains Seeking Control of the Empire”, in 中国历史与文明 [The History and Civilization of China]‎^[3], →ISBN, →OCLC, page 38:

     In 341 B. C., King Wei of Qi chose Tian Ji and Tian Ying as general, Sun Bin as military counselor to lead the troops in fighting against Wei to rescue Han. Again, they gave Wei a severe blow at Maling (to the southwest of modern Fan County, Henan Province).

   • 2012 December 15, “China Digest, December 15, 2012”, in South China Morning Post‎^[4], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 17 December 2012, China‎^[5]:

     A young entrepreneur who stunned friends and family by quitting his job in Beijing to be a farmer in his hometown of Fan county has made himself a multimillionaire selling organic produce, […]

   • 2015, Keisuke Ikehata, Yao Jin, Nima Maleky, Aijun Lin, “Heavy Metal Pollution in Water Resources in China—Occurrences and Public Health Implications”, in Sanjay K. Sharma, editor, Heavy Metals In Water: Presence, Removal and Safety‎^[6], Royal Society of Chemistry, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 160:

     They found that the concentration of iron, manganese, selenium and zinc in groundwater exceeded the standards in some of the study areas, including Wucheng County, Dong'e County, Guan County and Yucheng City in Shandong, as well as Fan County in Henan.

   • 2019, Liu Luwen et al., “Initial Experience of the Synchronized, Real-Time, Interactive, Remote Transthoracic Echocardiogram Consultation System in Rural China: Longitudinal Observational Study”, in JMIR Medical Informatics‎^[7], volume 7, number 3, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC:

     The average trip expense per time for each patient from Fan County People’s Hospital of Puyang City or Zhenping County People’s Hospital of Nanyang City to Henan Provincial People’s Hospital by common transportation vehicles was 100 RMB.

2. A surname from Mandarin

Synonyms

• Fanxian (county)

Translations

county; surname

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 范 (zh) (Fàn)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (2008), “Fan Xian”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[8], 2nd edition, volume 1, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1203, column 3

Anagrams

• AFN, ANF, FNA, NAF, NFA

German

Etymology

Borrowed from English fan, short for fanatic.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [fɛn]

• Audio:

  (file)

• Homophone: Fenn

Noun

Fan m (strong, genitive Fans, plural Fans)

1. fan, devotee

   Synonyms: Anhänger, Bewunderer, Getreuer, Jünger, Sympathisant, Verehrer

   Antonyms: Gegner, Nichtfan

   ein riesiger Fan. ― a huge fan.

Declension

Declension of Fan [masculine, strong]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	der	Fan	die	Fans
genitive	eines	des	Fans	der	Fans
dative	einem	dem	Fan	den	Fans
accusative	einen	den	Fan	die	Fans

Hypernyms

• Person, Mensch

Derived terms

• Fanartikel, Fanbetreuer, Fangemeinde, Fanklub, Fankurve, Fanmeile, Fanshop, Fanzine, Fußballfan

Further reading

• “Fan” in Duden online
• “Fan” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

Occitan

Etymology

From Latin fanum.

Proper noun

Fan m

1. Fa (a village and former commune in the Aude department, Occitanie, France)

   Holonym: Fan e Rovenac

Derived terms

• Fan e Rovenac
• La Ròca de Fan

 

Descendants

• → French: Fa

Tày

Pronunciation

• (Thạch An – Tràng Định) IPA^(key): [faːn˧˥]
• (Trùng Khánh) IPA^(key): [faːn˦]

Proper noun

Fan

1. France (a country in Europe)

References

• Hoàng Văn Ma, Lục Văn Pảo, Hoàng Chí (2006) Từ điển Tày-Nùng-Việt [Tay-Nung-Vietnamese dictionary] (in Vietnamese), Hanoi: Nhà xuất bản Từ điển Bách khoa Hà Nội