klan

See also: Appendix:Variations of "klan"

English

Proper noun

the klan

1. Alternative letter-case form of Klan.
   • 2009 January 30, “Obama presidency 'ignites Ku Klux Klan'”, in Herald Sun‎^[1]:

     "It's serious, serious enough that the FBI ... and other law enforcement agencies are trying to get on top of it because the klan has made direct threats to Obama," pastor Clary, who now fights against the group as a born-again Christian, said.

   • 2024 November 17, Howie Klein, “A Plurality Of American Voters Have Embraced Kakistocracy As Their Preferred Form Of Governance”, in DownWithTyranny‎^[2], archived from the original on 18 November 2024:

     She nearly ran for the open Senate seat in North Carolina in 2021 even though she had moved with the rest of the Trumpanzee klan to Florida.

Anagrams

• Lank, lank, lkna

Breton

Adjective

klan

1. hard mutation of glan

Danish

Etymology

From English clan.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /klaːn/, [kʰlæːˀn]

Noun

klan c (singular definite klanen, plural indefinite klaner)

1. clan

Inflection

Declension of klan

common gender	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	klan	klanen	klaner	klanerne
genitive	klans	klanens	klaners	klanernes

Further reading

• klan on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch clan, from English clan, from Irish clann (“offspring, children of the family”) and Scottish Gaelic clann, from Old Irish cland, from Old Welsh plant, from Latin planta (“shoot, offspring”).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈklan/ [ˈklan]
• Rhymes: -an
• Syllabification: klan

Noun

klan (plural klan-klan)

1. clan

   Synonyms: suku, suku sakat

Alternative forms

• klen

Further reading

• “klan”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Scottish Gaelic clann, via English clan.

Noun

klan m (definite singular klanen, indefinite plural klaner, definite plural klanene)

1. a clan

References

• “klan” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Scottish Gaelic clann, via English clan.

Noun

klan m (definite singular klanen, indefinite plural klanar, definite plural klanane)

1. a clan

References

• “klan” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Polish

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *pleth₂-?

Proto-Indo-European *pel-?

Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂-der.

Proto-Indo-European *pléh₂-n̥t-eh₂

Proto-Italic *plāntā?

Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂k-der.

Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₂nk / *gteh₂

Proto-Italic *plānktā

Latin plantabor.

Old Welsh plantbor.

Old Irish cland

Middle Irish clann

Irish clannbor.

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Middle Irish clann

Scottish Gaelic clannbor.

English clanbor.

Polish klan

Borrowed from English clan.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈklan/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -an
• Syllabification: klan

Noun

klan m inan (diminutive klanik, related adjective klanowy)

1. (literary) clan (group of people all descended from a common ancestor)

   Synonym: ród

2. (anthropology) tribal community (primitive community descended from a common ancestor, living in a common territory, sharing a common name and subject to the authority of a single chieftain)

   Synonym: ród

3. (historical) clan (traditional social group of families in the Scottish Highlands having a common hereditary chieftain)
4. (literary) clique (group of people)

   Synonyms: klika, koteria, sitwa

Declension

Declension of klan

	singular	plural
nominative	klan	klany
genitive	klanu	klanów
dative	klanowi	klanom
accusative	klan	klany
instrumental	klanem	klanami
locative	klanie	klanach
vocative	klanie	klany

Related terms

noun

• klanowość

Further reading

• “klan”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎^[3] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• “klan”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[4] (in Polish)

Serbo-Croatian

Participle

klan (Cyrillic spelling клан)

1. passive past participle of klȁti

Swedish

Noun

klan c

1. a clan
   • 2016, Sinan, “Stockholm city”‎^[5]:

     Alla har sin bas, och alla har sin klan. Skjuter mot varandra som i Afghanistan.

     Everyone has their base, and everyone has their clan. Shooting at each other like in Afghanistan.

Declension

Declension of klan

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	klan	klans
	definite	klanen	klanens
plural	indefinite	klaner	klaners
	definite	klanerna	klanernas

References

• “klan”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• “klan”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• “klan”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish [script needed] (klan), from French clan, from English clan, from Scottish Gaelic clann, from Old Irish cland, from Old Welsh plant, from Latin planta.

Noun

klan (definite accusative klanı, plural klanlar)

1. (anthropology) tribal community (primitive community descended from a common ancestor, living in a common territory, sharing a common name and subject to the authority of a single chieftain)

   Synonyms: aşiret, boy, kabile

2. (historical) clan (traditional social group of families in the Scottish Highlands having a common hereditary chieftain)

Declension

Declension of klan

	singular	plural
nominative	klan	klanlar
definite accusative	klanı	klanları
dative	klana	klanlara
locative	klanda	klanlarda
ablative	klandan	klanlardan
genitive	klanın	klanların