filan

Albanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish فلان (falan), from Arabic فُلَان (fulān).[1]

Noun

filan m

  1. A placeholder name for a person, used when a name is not known; a generic name; so-and-so

References

  1. ^ Bufli, G., Rocchi, L. (2021) “filan”, in A historical-etymological dictionary of Turkisms in Albanian (1555–1954), Trieste: Edizioni Università di Trieste, page 159

Esperanto

Adjective

filan

  1. accusative singular of fila

Somali

Adjective

filan

  1. enough

Spanish

Verb

filan

  1. third-person plural present indicative of filar
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