quan

Inherited from Latin quandō. Compare Catalan quan.

quan

1. when

Inherited from Old Catalan quant~quand~quan~can~cant, from Latin quandō.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈkwan]

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• Homophone: quant (Central)

quan

1. when

   Sabeu quan arribaran?

   Do you know when they will arrive?

• “quan”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “quan”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “quan” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “quan” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

quan

1. (interrogative) whom (object)

To ask for a subject, use qua instead.

quan

1. sprout from the stump

quan

1. nonstandard spelling of quān
2. nonstandard spelling of quán
3. nonstandard spelling of quǎn
4. nonstandard spelling of quàn

• Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.

quan

1. (Northern) alternative form of whan

quan

1. alternative form of whanne

quan

1. alternative form of whanne

From Old Occitan quan (compare Catalan quan), from Latin quando (compare French quand).

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quan

1. when

quan

1. alternative form of can

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [kwaːn˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [kwaːŋ˧˧]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [waːŋ˧˧]

Sino-Vietnamese word from 官.

quan

1. (historical) mandarin

   Bẩm quan, con thật tình không biết ạ.

   My Lord, I frankly do not know.

2. (informal) official

   Synonym: quan chức

Sino-Vietnamese word from 貫 (“string”).

quan

1. (historical) string of six hundred coins.

   Xin ông coi một đồng nầy có lỗ vuông giữa, chúng tôi quen xỏ sáu trăm đồng thể ấy cùng nhau, ấy là một quan.

   Look at this penny which has a square hole in the middle, we string six hundred of these together; and these form what we call a quan or bundle.