lân

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [lən˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [ləŋ˧˧]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [ləŋ˧˧]

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Sino-Vietnamese word from 磷 (“phosphorus”).

lân

1. (dated) phosphorus

• lân is only used in lân tinh (“phosphorus”, now dated), and when referring to fertilizer, as in NPK, also known as đạm-lân-kali ("nitrogen-phosphorus-potassium")

• photpho, phôtpho, phốt-pho, phô-xpho

Clipping of kì lân (“qilin”).

(classifier con) lân

1. the qilin, one of the four sacred beasts, along with the dragon, the tortoise and the fenghuang

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

lân

1. (only in compounds) to encroach

• IPA^(key): /laːn/

lân

1. soft mutation of glân

From Old Frisian land, lond, from Proto-West Germanic *land, from Proto-Germanic *landą, from Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ- (“land, heath”).

• IPA^(key): /lɔːn/

lân n (plural lannen, diminutive lantsje)

1. land
2. country

• lânskip

• “lân”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011