нян

See also: нан, на̄н, and HRH

Dungan

Etymology

Cognate of Mandarin Chinese 年 (nián)

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /niæ̃²⁴/

Noun

нян • (ni͡an) (I)

  1. year

Mongolian

Noun

нян • (njan)

  1. bacterium, bacteria; microbe, germ

Nivkh

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ɲan/

Numeral

нян (ņan)

  1. (Sakhalin, cardinal numbers) one (for counting animals)

Southern Selkup
Regional variants of нян
Chumel dialects
Narym нян
Нян.

Etymology

From Proto-Samoyedic *ńuənä.

Cognate with Tundra Nenets нюня (nyunya).

Noun

нян (transliteration needed) (Narym)

  1. diver

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Further reading
  • I. A. Korobeynikova (2020) Родное слово [Native word], Tomsk: Аграф-Пресс; Вайар, →ISBN, page 85 of 240
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.