roan

• (UK) enPR: rōn, IPA^(key): /ɹəʊn/

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• (US) enPR: rōn, IPA^(key): /ɹoʊn/, /ˈɹoʊ.ən/^[1]
• Rhymes: -əʊn

From Middle French roan, probably from Spanish roano, from Old Spanish raudano, itself probably of Germanic origin (compare Gothic *𐍂𐌰𐌿𐌳𐌰𐌽 (*raudan), accusative of 𐍂𐌰𐌿𐌸𐍃 (rauþs, “red”). Compare rowan.

roan (not comparable)

1. (of an animal, especially of a horse) Having a coat of a dark base color with individual white hairs mixed in.
2. Made of roan (kind of leather).

   roan binding

roan (plural roans)

1. An animal (such as a horse) that has a coat of a dark base color with individual white hairs mixed in.
2. The color of such an animal.
3. A kind of leather used for slippers, bookbinding, etc., made from sheepskin, tanned with sumac and colored to imitate ungrained morocco.
   • 1882, Leo de Colange, The American Encyclopaedia of Commerce, Manufactures, Commercial Law, and Finance, volume 2:

     Roan, a kind of leather used for shoes, slippers, and common bookbinding; prepared from sheep skins by tanning with sumach.

• roan antelope
• strawberry roan

roan (plural roans)

1. Archaic form of rowan (“kind of tree”).

• roan duck (etymologically unrelated)

• Arno, NRAO, Anor, Oran, Naro, Rona, Nora, 'rona, Aron, rona, RONA

• IPA^(key): /ˈroan/ [ˈro.ãn]
• Rhymes: -oan
• Syllabification: ro‧an

roan

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