partan

partan

1. inflection of partir:
   1. third-person plural present subjunctive
   2. third-person plural imperative

From Old Irish partán.

partan (plural partans)

1. edible crab (Cancer pagurus)
   • 1894, Sir John Foulis, Arthur Washington Hallen, The Account Book of Sir John Foulis of Ravelston 1671-1707‎^[1], page 279:

     For dinner at ye lodging wt Lady dunipace, mrs abigaill and my tuo sones and servants lapster and partans and brandie.

     For dinner at the lodging with Lady Dunipace, Mrs. Abigail and my two sons and servants lobster and crab and brandy.

• partan bree

• “partan, n.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, retrieved 24 May 2024, reproduced from William A[lexander] Craigie, A[dam] J[ack] Aitken [et al.], editors, A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue: […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1931–2002, →OCLC.
• “partan, n.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, retrieved 24 May 2024, reproduced from W[illiam] Grant and D[avid] D. Murison, editors, The Scottish National Dictionary, Edinburgh: Scottish National Dictionary Association, 1931–1976, →OCLC.

From Old Irish partán.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈpʰarˠs̪t̪an/^[2]
• (Lewis) IPA^(key): /ˈpʰɔrˠs̪t̪an/^[3]

partan m (genitive singular partain, plural partanan)

1. shore crab

• partan-tuathal

• Edward Dwelly (1911) “partan”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎^[2], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN

partan

1. inflection of partir:
   1. third-person plural present subjunctive
   2. third-person plural imperative