san

1. (international standards)ISO 639-2 &ISO 639-3language code forSanskrit.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Sanskrit terms

FromAncient Greekσάν(sán), fromSemitic.

san (pluralsans)

1. A letter of the Archaic Greek alphabet (uppercaseϺ, lowercaseϻ) that came afterpi and beforeqoppa.

• sigma
•  San (letter) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Shortening ofsanatorium.

• IPA^(key):/sæn/

• Audio(US):

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• Rhymes:-æn

san (pluralsans)

1. (dated,informal) Asanatorium.
   • 1940, Enid Blyton,The Naughtiest Girl in the School:

     "Haven't you heard?" said Belinda. "Joan's ill! She'd got a high temperature, and she's in bed in theSan."

   • 1958,Doris Lessing,A Ripple From the Storm, HarperPerennial, published1995, page122:

     ‘I was in thesan for ten months before the war. I know all the gen about being sick.’

   • 2005, Dan Soucoup, Richard Thorne McCully,McCully's New Brunswick, page137:

     River Glade Sanatorium, River Glade, June 25, 1931. The "San" at River Glade with the Petitcodiac River in the background.

• eco-san
• san ts'ai
• san fairy ann(etymologically unrelated)

• ANS,NAS,NAs,NSA,SNA,ans,ans.

FromProto-Cushitic*ʔisŋʷ-. Cognates includeHadiyyasane,Oromofunyaan,Sidamosano,Somalisan andSahosan.

• IPA^(key):/ˈsan/ [ˈsʌn]
• Hyphenation:san

sán m (plural sanitté f or sanwá f)

1. nose

• Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015)L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)‎^[1], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis), page61

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san

1. day

• van Breugel, Seino. 2015.Atong-English dictionary, second edition. Available online:https://www.academia.edu/487044/Atong_English_Dictionary.

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

san f (pluralsans)

1. San; the ArchaicGreek letterϺ (lowercaseϻ)

san

1. Alternative spelling ofzan

san

1. river

• wordlist inLos Comechingones, inSerie aborígenes argentinos, volume 1 (1945), also in theBoletín de la Academia Argentina de Letras, volume 13, issue 47 (1944)

From the diminutive ofArabicلِسَان(lisān).

san f (pluralsanát)

1. tongue
2. language

• Borg, Alexander (2004)A Comparative Glossary of Cypriot Maronite Arabic (Arabic–English) (Handbook of Oriental Studies;I.70), Leiden and Boston: Brill,page417

FromProto-Mongolic*sam, compareMongolianсам(sam).

• IPA^(key):/sɑŋ/

san

1. comb

FromAncient Greekσάν(sán).

san c (pluralsan's,diminutivesannetje n)

1. san (archaic Greek letter)

•  san (letter) on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia^nl

<Ancient Greekσάν(sán)

• IPA^(key):/ˈsɑn/,[ˈs̠ɑ̝n]
• Rhymes:-ɑn
• Syllabification^(key):san
• Hyphenation^(key):san

san

1. san(letter in Ancient Greek alphabet)

Inherited fromLatinsānus.

san (femininesana,masculine pluralsans,feminine pluralsanes)(ORB, broad)

1. healthy

• santât

• sain in DicoFranPro:Dictionnaire Français/Francoprovençal – ondicofranpro.llm.umontreal.ca
• san in Lo trèsor Arpitan – onarpitan.eu

• IPA^(key):/san/

san m (pluralsan)

1. san(Greek letter)

• IPA^(key):/sɑ̃/
• Homophones:cent,cents,sang,sangs,sans,sens,sent

Blend ofson +‎sa.

san n (singular,pluralses)

1. (gender-neutral,neologism)his,her,their,its

   Je connais très biensan partenaire.

   I knowtheir partner wery well.

• iel
• man
• tan

• ans

FromLatinsānus.

san

1. healthy,sound

• sanetât

• IPA^(key):/ˈsaŋ/[ˈs̺ɑŋ]
• Rhymes:-aŋ

FromOld Galician-Portuguesesan, fromLatinsanctus. Cognate withPortuguesesão andSpanishsan.

• San

san m (apocopate,standard formsanto)

1. (before nouns which began by a consonant)Apocopic form ofsanto(“saint”)

FromOld Galician-Portuguesesão (13th century,Cantigas de Santa Maria), fromLatinsānus. Cognate withPortuguesesão andSpanishsano.

• sao

san (femininesa,masculine pluralsans,feminine pluralsas)

1. healthy,sound
   • 1775, María Francisca Isla y Losada,Romance:

     Ay Jesús! miña Joiña!
     non falemos nesto mais,
     que dá grima sò o pensalo,
     Deus vos garde bo ésan.
     Santiago. Febreiro doce
     Aÿ! que non sey que me dà,
     que me esfraquezo de todo,
     è non podo vafexàr.

     Oh, Jesus! My Jewel!
     Let's not talk about this anymore
     because it brings creeps just to think about it.
     God take care of you, safe andsound.
     Santiago, February twelve
     Oh!, I don't know what happens to me
     I'm totally weakening
     and I can't breathe

• sandar

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane,María Álvarez de la Granja,Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “são”, inDicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela:Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane,María Álvarez de la Granja,Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “san”, inDicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela:Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “são”, inCorpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela:Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “san”, inDicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela:Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández,Ernesto Xosé González Seoane,María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “san”, inTesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela:Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “san”, inTesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela:Instituto da Lingua Galega,→ISSN

Probably fromFrenchcent.

san

1. hundred

• IPA^(key):/sã/

FromFrenchcent(“hundred”).

san

1. hundred

FromFrenchsang(“blood”).

san

1. blood

FromMiddle Irish(i)sind,(i)sin, fromOld Irishisin(d/t)(“in them orf orn sgdative”),isin(“into them orf sgaccusative”),isa(“into then sgaccusative”), fromProto-Celtic*insindū/sindai(“in them sg/f sgdative”),*insindom/sindam(“into them sg/f sgaccusative”).

• IPA^(key):/sˠən̪ˠ/,/sˠənˠ/(beforea,o,u,fha,fho,fhu)
• IPA^(key):/sˠənʲ/(beforee,i,fhe,fhi)

san

1. prepositioni + definite articlean:inthe(singular)

Used before vowel sounds andf (whichlenites); (otherwise,sa is used):

• san amhrán ―in the song
• san fhocal ―in the word

Often understood to be a contraction ofinsan, but the formssan, sa were in common use by the 12th century and accepted in Classical Gaelic poetry whileins is a later innovation with the-n- reintroduced by analogy.

• Osborn Bergin (1916) “Irish Grammatical Tracts (Introductory)”, inÉriu, volume 8, Supplement, Royal Irish Academy,→DOI,→JSTOR,§67, page17
• McKenna, Lambert, editor (1944),Bardic Syntactical Tracts, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, page113: “Before pl. art.i n- givesis na,’sna; in such casesa h- givesas na. (…) Before sg. art.i n- isisin, san (oftensa before consonants).”
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “i”, ineDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “san”, inFoclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm,→ISBN
• “san”, inNew English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge,2013–2025

• IPA^(key):/sˠən̪ˠ/,/sˠənˠ/

san

1. (nonstandard)Alternative form ofsin(“that”)(used after a broad consonant)

   an fearsan ―that man(standard:an fear sin)

• IPA^(key):/ˈsan/
• Rhymes:-an
• Hyphenation:sàn

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san m orf (uncountable)

1. san (Greek letter)

• seesanto

san m (apocopated)

1. (used before a consonant)Apocopic form ofsantosaint

   San Pietro ―Saint Peter

• sant',santo

san

1. Rōmaji transcription ofさん
2. Rōmaji transcription ofサン

FromProto-Turkic*sā-. Compare toTurkishsan,Southern Altaiсагыш(sagïš), etc.

san

1. number

• N. A. Baskakov, S.M. Šapšala, editor (1973), “san”, inKaraimsko-Russko-Polʹskij Slovarʹ [Karaim-Russian-Polish Dictionary], Moscow: Moskva,→ISBN

FromProto-Khasian*san. ComparePnarsan,Lyngngamsan,War-Jaintiasan.

• IPA^(key):/san/

san

1. five

san

1. togrow up

• Singh, U Nissor (1906)Khasi-English dictionary‎^[2], Shillong: Eastern Bengal and Assam Secretariat Press, page183. Searchable online atSEAlang.net.

san

1. meat

Akin toItaliansano, from Latinsanus.

san

1. healthy

san (san⁵ /san⁰,Zhuyin˙ㄙㄢ)

1. Hanyu Pinyin reading of𠮿

san

1. Nonstandard spelling ofsān.
2. Nonstandard spelling ofsǎn.
3. Nonstandard spelling ofsàn.

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

A contracted form of earliersægen, fromOld Englishsæċġan, alternative form ofseċġan.

sãn

1. Alternative form ofseien

FromOld Frenchsan, alternative form ofsenz.

san

1. Alternative form ofsaunz

FromVulgar Latinsum, from ClassicalLatinsuum.

• Audio(Jersey):

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san m

1. (Jersey)his,her,its(used to qualify masculine nouns)

FromOld Frisiansunne f. Cognates includeWest Frisiansinne. The change of gender in Föhr-Amrum dialect has to do with the general merger of the feminine into the neuter, during which process a number of feminines became masculine instead.

san m orf

1. (Föhr-Amrum,Mooring)sun

   Asan gungt up. ―Thesun rises.

   Asan gungt oner. ―Thesun sets.

• Masculine on Föhr and Amrum, feminine in Mooring.

• Sen(Sylt)

FromOld Frisiansīn.

san (feminine and neutersin,pluralsin)

1. (Föhr-Amrum,Mooring)his(third-person singular masculine possessive determiner)
2. (Föhr-Amrum,Mooring)its(third-person singular neuter posssessive determiner)
3. (Föhr-Amrum)her(third-person singular feminine possessive determiner)

• (her):harn(Mooring),höör(Sylt)

san (feminine and neutersin,plural(Föhr-Amrum)sinenor(Mooring)sin)

1. (Föhr-Amrum,Mooring)his(third-person singular masculine possessive pronoun)
2. (Föhr-Amrum,Mooring)its(third-person singular neuter posssessive pronoun)
3. (Föhr-Amrum)hers(third-person singular feminine possessive pronoun)

• (her):harn(Mooring),höör(Sylt)

Derived from the third-person plural and subjunctive of the present ofOld Frisianwesa. CompareOld Englishsind,Dutchzijn,Germansein,sind.

san

1. (Föhr-Amrum)first-personsingularpresent ofwees
2. (Föhr-Amrum,Mooring)pluralpresent ofwees(e)

• (1st person):ban(Mooring),sen(Sylt)
• (plural):sen(Sylt)

• saň,saně

Inherited fromProto-Slavic*sanь.

• IPA^(key):(13^th CE)/ˈsan/
• IPA^(key):(15^th CE)/ˈsan/

san f orm animal

1. dragon

   Synonym:drak

• Czech:saň

• Jan Gebauer (1903–1916) “san”, inSlovník staročeský (in Czech), Prague:Česká grafická společnost "unie",Česká akademie císaře Františka Josefa pro vědy, slovesnost a umění

sanoblique singular, m (oblique pluralsans,nominative singularsans,nominative pluralsan)

1. Alternative form ofsens

Inherited fromSanskritश्वन्(śvan).

san m

1. dog

Only consensus forms are shown.

• → Thai:สา(sǎa)

• Pali Text Society (1921–1925) “san”, inPali-English Dictionary‎, London: Chipstead

FromProto-Khasian*san, fromProto-Mon-Khmer*suun ~ *suən ~ *sən; cognate withKhasisan,Manghan²,Monမသုန်(pəsɔn) andProto-Palaungic*pəsan (whenceRiang [Lang]kʰan¹ andDanauθʊn⁴).

• IPA^(key):/san/

san

1. (cardinal number)five

• 𐴏𐴝𐴕(san) —Hanifi Rohingya script

FromSanskritचन्द्र(candra); cognate withBengaliচাঁদ(cãd).

san (Hanifi spelling𐴏𐴝𐴕)

1. moon

san

1. second-personsingularpresentindicative ofsi

FromMiddle Irish(i)sind,(i)sin, fromOld Irishisin(d/t)(“in them orf orn sgdative”),isin(“into them orf sgaccusative”),isa(“into then sgaccusative”).

san

1. inthe

   sananmoch ―in the evening

   san fhad-ùine ―in the long run

   sant-seanchas ―in conversation

   sanachadhbhuan ―in the harvest field

• This form isnot used before nouns beginning withb,c,g,m orp, wheresa is used instead.
• If followed byf, thef islenited:

  facal - word,

  san fhacal - in the word.

• Often understood to be a contraction ofannsan, but the formssan, sa were in common use by the 12th century and accepted in Classical Gaelic poetry whileanns is a later innovation with the-n- reintroduced by analogy.

• ann an
• anns

• Osborn Bergin (1916) “Irish Grammatical Tracts (Introductory)”, inÉriu, volume 8, Supplement, Royal Irish Academy,→DOI,→JSTOR,§67, page17
• McKenna, Lambert, editor (1944),Bardic Syntactical Tracts, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, page113: “Before pl. art.i n- givesis na,’sna; in such casesa h- givesas na. (…) Before sg. art.i n- isisin, san (oftensa before consonants).”
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “i”, ineDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Inherited fromProto-Slavic*sъ̀nъ, fromProto-Balto-Slavic*súpnas, fromProto-Indo-European*supnós.

• IPA^(key):/sân/

sȁn m (Cyrillic spellingса̏н)

1. sleep
2. dream

   Šta si videla u tomsnu? ―What did you see in thatdream?

   • 1993,Bajaga i Instruktori, “Ovo je Balkan”, inBajaga i Instruktori (lyrics),Muzika na struju‎^[3], performed byBajaga i Instruktori, Produkcija Stig:

     Ovo je ovde Balkan,
     Zemlja izsna,
     Između moćnih sila
     Dobra i zla.

     This here is the Balkans
     A land fromdreams
     Between powerful forces
     Good and evil.

• “san”, inHrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian),2006–2025

FromProto-Cushitic*ʔisŋʷ-. Cognates includeAfarsan,Hadiyyasane,Oromofunyaan,Sahosan andSidamosano. Possibly related toEgyptiansn(“to smell”).

san ?

1. nose

• san Afmaal Somali-English Dictionary.

• IPA^(key):/ˈsan/[ˈsãn]
• Rhymes:-an
• Syllabification:san

• San(in proper nouns,capitalized)

san m (pluralsanes)

1. (Dominican Republic) financial, temporal-savings scheme; the participants periodically contribute aquota to a communal pot that is given to one member, based on his/her turn amongst all the others

san m (apocopate,standard formsanto)

1. (before the noun)Apocopic form ofsanto(“saint”)

• Not used in front names beginning withTo- orDo- syllables likeTomás,Tomé,Toribio, andDomingo.Santo is used instead.

san f (pluralsanes)

1. san; the Greek letterM,ϻ

• “san”, inDiccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8,Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish:Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

• (Standard Tagalog)IPA^(key):/ˈsan/[ˈsan̪]
• Rhymes:-an
• Syllabification:san

san (Baybayin spellingᜐᜈ᜔)

1. Informal form ofsaan.

san

1. number
2. shin,hind leg
3. limb

Borrowed fromRussianса́ни(sáni).

san

1. sledge,sleigh

• Koponen, Eino, Ruppel, Klaas, Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008),Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages‎^[4], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

FromEnglishsun.

san

1. sun
   • 1989,Buk Baibel long Tok Pisin, Port Moresby: Bible Society of Papua New Guinea,Jenesis1:15:

     God i mekim kamap tupela bikpela lait. Bikpela emsan bilong givim lait long de, na liklik em mun bilong givim lait long nait. Na God i mekim kamap ol sta tu.

     →New International Version translation

• sankamap

FromEnglishsun.

san

1. sun

FromOttoman Turkishصان(san), a derivation fromProto-Turkic*sā-(“to count”). Related tosay-(“to count”) andsan-(“to consider”).

san (definite accusativesanı,pluralsanlar)

1. name
2. reputation

• ad san

• saymak
• sanmak

• “san”, inTurkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu

FromLatinsanus.

san

1. healthy

• (Hà Nội)IPA^(key):[saːn˧˧]
• (Huế)IPA^(key):[ʂaːŋ˧˧] ~[saːŋ˧˧]
• (Saigon)IPA^(key):[ʂaːŋ˧˧] ~[saːŋ˧˧]

san• (刊,刪,删,湌,鏟)

1. toflatten
2. to makeequal

Cognate withIgalara

• IPA^(key):/sã̄/

san

1. topay

   Ó tisan owó orí ìyàwó. ―He haspaid the bride price.

• sanwó

• IPA^(key):/sã̀/

sàn

1. to begood; to bewell

   Synonyms:dára,yááyì

   Ósàn kí a sinmi. ―It'sgood that we rest.

2. toheal

   Ọgbẹ́ tisàn. ―The wound hashealed.

• IPA^(key):/sã́/

sán

1. (withàrá(“thunder”)) tothunder

   Àrá ńsán. ―Thunder isstriking.

CompareNupesán(“to split; to ache (head)”).

• IPA^(key):/sã́/

sán

1. tocrack; tosplit

   Òkúta tisán. ―The rock hassplit.

2. (withorí(“head”)) toache

   Synonym:fọ́

   Orí ńsán mi. ―My head isaching me.

FromProto-Tai*saːn. Cognate withThaiสาน(sǎan),Northern Thaiᩈᩣ᩠ᨶ,Laoສານ(sān),Lüᦉᦱᧃ(ṡaan),Khünᩈᩣ᩠ᨶ,Shanသၢၼ်(sǎan),Ahom𑜏𑜃𑜫(san).

• (Standard Zhuang)IPA^(key):/θaːn˨˦/
• Tone numbers: san¹
• Hyphenation: san

san (1957–1982 spellingsan)

1. toweave