Yunan
English
Etymology 1
From Mandarin[1] 鬱南/郁南 (Yùnán).
Pronunciation
- enPR: yüʹnänʹ[1]
Proper noun
Yunan
- A county of Yunfu, Guangdong, China.
- 1951 May, Hsinhua News Agency Release[2], →OCLC, page 81, column 3:
- A typical example of the lightning growth of the cooperatives since land reform comes from Kwangtung Province. Early in April the Yunan County Cooperative in Kwangtung sent a team of workers to a nearby village where land reform had […]
- 1986, Mu En-zhi, A. J. Boucot, Chen Xu, Rong Jia-yu, Correlation of the Silurian Rocks of China[4], Geological Society of America, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 49, column 2:
- It then included the Wentoushan Formation at its top. The type locality is Lientan, Yunan County, Guangdong Province.
- 2011 August 27, Mimi Lau, “Little girl's horrific abuse shames the nation”, in South China Morning Post[5], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 25 March 2023[6]:
- Newspaper readers have donated about 620,000 yuan to help pay for her medical care, adding to a 50,000 yuan fund established by the Yunan county government.
- 2015, Xingyuan Feng, Christer Ljungwall, Guangwen He, “Regulations and Policies on Growth of Non-State Enterprises”, in The Ecology Of Chinese Private Enterprises[7], →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 118:
- On the local level, a good example is the credit rating system in Yunan County in Guangdong Province. […] Yunan County engaged all relevant functional departments in the county, and using the People's Bank of China's credit rating system, created the Yunan County Enterprise Non-Bank Credit Information Enquiry System in 2009.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Yunan.
Translations
See also
- Not to be confused with Yunnan.
References
Further reading
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Yunan”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World[8], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3540, column 2
Etymology 2
(Should we delete(+) this sense?)
Proper noun
Yunan
- Misspelling of Yunnan.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Yunan.
Further reading
- Yunan, Yunnan at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.
- “Yunan” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2025.
Hausa
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic اَلْيُونَان (al-yūnān).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Yū̀nân f
- Greece (a country in Southeast Europe)
Derived terms
Malay
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈjunan/ [ˈju.nan]
- Rhymes: -unan
- Hyphenation: Yu‧nan
Noun
Yunan (plural Yunan-Yunan)
- archaic form of Yunani
Turkish
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish یونان (Yunan), from Old Anatolian Turkish یونان (Yunan), from Persian یونان (yunân), from Old Persian 𐎹𐎢𐎴 (yauna, “Ionia”), from Ancient Greek Ἰᾱ́ων (Iā́ōn, “Ionian”), of uncertain origin.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [juˈnɑn]
- Hyphenation: Yu‧nan
Proper noun
Yunan
- Greek (person)
Adjective
Yunan (uncomparable)
Declension
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | Yunan | Yunanlar |
| accusative | Yunan'ı | Yunanları |
| dative | Yunan'a | Yunanlara |
| locative | Yunan'da | Yunanlarda |
| ablative | Yunan'dan | Yunanlardan |
| genitive | Yunan'ın | Yunanların |
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| benim (my) | Yunan'ım | Yunanlarım Yunan'larım |
| senin (your) | Yunan'ın | Yunanların Yunan'ların |
| onun (his/her/its) | Yunan'ı | Yunanları Yunan'ları |
| bizim (our) | Yunan'ımız | Yunanlarımız Yunan'larımız |
| sizin (your) | Yunan'ınız | Yunanlarınız Yunan'larınız |
| onların (their) | Yunan'ı Yunanları Yunan'ları |
Yunanları Yunan'ları |