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apan

See also: APAn and apán

English

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Etymology

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From APA (“amateur press association”) +‎ -n (“of or pertaining to”).

Noun

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apan (plural apans)

  1. (fandom slang) A member of an amateur press association.
    • 1990 August, Guy Lillian, “'Tis the Season”, in Mimosa‎[1], number 8, page 4:
      The greatest apan of all time lives on a quiet old street rising above Hagerstown, Maryland.
    • 1998 October 3, Brown, Rich [Dr Gafia], “Fan Terms (1)”, in rec.arts.sf.fandom‎[2] (Usenet), retrieved 2018-06-13, message-ID <19981003020622.14181.00000964@ng52.aol.com>:
      Most of the participants in the mundane apas are hobby printers—-and the disdain with which our fandom once viewed Xeroxing of fanzines is but a pale reflection of the way mundane apans have looked upon the mimeo and the ditto as a means of publishing "papers" (as they call their amateur publications).
    • 2006 May, Arnie Katz, “The Thin Veneer”, in confuSon‎[3], volume 1, number 4:
      I immediately began a cutback. I remained an enthusiastic apan, but by the time I gafiated around 1976, I was in only one, FAPA.

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Cebuano

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Etymology

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Short for apanapan.

Pronunciation

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  • Hyphenation: a‧pan

Noun

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apan

  1. a grasshopper
    Synonyms: apan, apanapan
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Finnish

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Verb

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apan

  1. first-person singular present indicative of appaa

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Hiligaynon

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apán

  1. an adult locust

Malay

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apan

  1. (dialectal, Sambas) pan

Old English

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Noun

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apan

  1. inflection of apa:
    1. accusative/genitive/dative singular
    2. nominative/accusative plural

Pipil

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Etymology

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From at (“water”) +‎ -pan (“upper surface; place/area; time”, locative).

Pronunciation

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  • (standard) IPA(key): /ˈapaŋ/

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apan (plural ajapan)

  1. river
    Yahquet maltiat tic ne apan ne pipilmet
    The children went to bathe in the river
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Quechua

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apan

  1. third-person singular present indicative of apay

Swedish

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apan

  1. definite singular of apa

Tagakaulu Kalagan

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apan

  1. grasshopper

Tagalog

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Spanish afán.

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apán (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜉᜈ᜔)

  1. enthusiastic eagerness
    Synonyms: sigla, sigasig
  2. eager inclination for an activity, as a hobby
    Synonym: hilig
  3. vehement desire
    Synonyms: lunggati, nasa
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Further reading

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  • “apan”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
  • Cuadrado Muñiz, Adolfo (1972) Hispanismos en el tagalo: diccionario de vocablos de origen español vigentes en esta lengua filipina, Madrid: Oficina de Educación Iberoamericana, page 14

Waray-Waray

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apán

  1. grasshopper

Western Huasteca Nahuatl

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Noun

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apan

  1. river

Yola

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Middle English apan, upan, from Old English upon, uppon, uppan (“on, upon, up to, against, after, in addition to”).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /əˈpɔːn/, /əˈpɔː/, (aphetic) /pɔː/

Preposition

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apan

  1. upon
    • 1867, “THE WEDDEEN O BALLYMORE”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 2, page 94:
      Wee aar lhaung vlealès an pikkès, to waaite apan a breede.
      With their long flails and picks, to wait upon the bride.
    • 1867, “THE WEDDEEN O BALLYMORE”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 3, page 94:
      Aar was a muskawn o buthther ee-laaide apan hoat shruaanès,
      There was a great heap of butter laid upon hot scraps,
    • 1867, “VERSES IN ANSWER TO THE WEDDEEN O BALLYMORE”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 98:
      [Wee] vaate apan vaate a met-borde was ee-halt.
      [With vat upon vat a meat-borde was held.]
    • 1867, “VERSES IN ANSWER TO THE WEDDEEN O BALLYMORE”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 1, page 100:
      Amang wefty jhemes, 'cha jeist ee-rid apan.
      Among cobwebby scraps, I have just alighted on.
    • 1867, “ABOUT AN OLD SOW GOING TO BE KILLED”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 2, page 106:
      Ich aam a vat hog it's drue. Aar is ken apan aam.
      I am a fat hog, 'tis true. There is ken upon them.

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  • Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 23
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