fasan

See also: Fasan, fașân, faṣãn, and fāsàn

Danish

Etymology

From Ancient Greek φασιανός (phasianós).

Noun

fasan c (singular definite fasanen, plural indefinite fasaner)

  1. pheasant

Declension

Declension of fasan
common
gender
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative fasan fasanen fasaner fasanerne
genitive fasans fasanens fasaners fasanernes

References

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Ancient Greek φασιανός (phasianós).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fasaːn/, [fɑ.ˈsaːn]

Noun

fasan m (definite singular fasanen, indefinite plural fasaner, definite plural fasanene)

  1. a pheasant

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Ancient Greek φασιανός (phasianós).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fasaːn/, [fɑ.ˈsaːn]

Noun

fasan m (definite singular fasanen, indefinite plural fasanar, definite plural fasanane)

  1. a pheasant

References

Piedmontese

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /faˈzaŋ/

Noun

fasan m

  1. pheasant

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

Borrowed from English fashion

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈfas̪an/[1]

Noun

fasan m (genitive singular fasain, plural fasanan)

  1. fashion
    A bheil gorm san fhasan no às an fhasan am bliadhna?Is blue in fashion or out of fashion this year?

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Oftedal, M. (1956) A linguistic survey of the Gaelic dialects of Scotland, Vol. III: The Gaelic of Leurbost, Isle of Lewis, Oslo: Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap

Further reading

  • MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “fasan”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language[1], Stirling, →ISBN

Swedish

Etymology 1

Spelled phasshan by Risingh in 1671, pluralized as phasanter by Asteropherus in 1609. Borrowed from German Fasan, from Latin phāsiānus, from Ancient Greek φασιανός (ὄρνις) (phasianós (órnis), bird of the river Φᾶσις (Phâsis)).

Noun

fasan c

  1. pheasant (a bird of family Phasianidae, often hunted for food)
Declension
Derived terms
  • diamantfasan
  • fasanfjäder
  • fasangård
  • fasanhöna
  • fasankyckling
  • fasantupp
  • fasanägg
  • guldfasan

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

fasan

  1. definite singular of fasa

References

Anagrams

Volapük

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [fa.ˈsan]

Noun

fasan (nominative plural fasans)

  1. pheasant (bird family Phasianidae)

Declension

Declension of fasan
singular plural
nominative fasan fasans
genitive fasana fasanas
dative fasane fasanes
accusative fasani fasanis
vocative 1 o fasan! o fasans!
predicative 2 fasanu fasanus

1 status as a case is disputed
2 in later, non-classical Volapük only

Hypernyms

Hyponyms

  • fasanil
  • fasanül
  • hifasan
  • jifasan

Derived terms

  • fasanapijun
  • fasanöp
  • fasanik
  • goldafasan
  • largentafasan

See also