Catalan

From Middle English Catalane, from French Catalan, from Catalan català.

• enPR: kăt'ə-lăn, IPA^(key): /ˈkæ.təˌlæn/, /ˈkæ.tə.lən/

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Catalan (plural Catalans)

1. A native or inhabitant of Catalonia, Spain.

   Synonym: Catalonian

   • 2017 October 22, Sam Jones, “Catalonia weighs up declaration of independence”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     Even if he draws back from a declaration, many Catalans – including Mossos and civil servants – may decide to not to obey orders from Madrid, and tens of thousands of people could take to the streets to protect key regional government institutions.

Catalan

2. The Romance language of Catalonia, an autonomous region in the northeast of Spain, also spoken in the Valencian autonomous region (where the language is officially named valencià), the Balearic Islands, Andorra, Roussillon in France, and the Sardinian city of Alghero.

   Synonym: Catalonian

   • 2001 December 2, Giles Milton, “'The Riddle and the Knight'”, in The New York Times‎^[2], archived from the original on 19 April 2022:

     By the time this mysterious knight died in the 1360s, his book was available in every European language, including Dutch, Gaelic, Czech, Catalan, and Walloon.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Catalan.
3. A surname from Spanish.

Catalan (not comparable)

1. Of, from or relating to Catalonia, Spain.

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:Catalan.

• Catalonian

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Catalan terms
• Appendix:Catalan Swadesh list for a Swadesh list of basic vocabulary words in Catalan

• [3] Open source English-Catalan, Catalan-English Dictionary.
• ISO 639-1 code ca, ISO 639-3 code cat (SIL)
• Ethnologue entry for Catalan, cat ⁠

• cantala

• Hyphenation: Ca‧ta‧lan

Catalan

1. a surname from Spanish
2. the Catalan language

Catalan

1. Catalan, Catalonian (native or inhabitant of Catalonia, Spain)

Catalan

1. Catalan, Catalonian (of, from or relating to Catalonia, Spain)

Borrowed from Spanish catalán.

• IPA^(key): /ka.ta.lɑ̃/

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Catalan m (plural Catalans, feminine Catalane)

1. Catalan, Catalonian (native or inhabitant of Catalonia, Spain) (usually male)

• “Catalan”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.