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Complete Definition of "swan"

English
Image:Schwan1 db.jpg|thumb|A swan

Pronunciation
w:IPA|IPA: UK [ˈswɒn] US [ˈswɑn]
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:Rhymes: Rhymes:English:-ɒn|-ɒn
Etymology
Old English swan
Noun
en-noun

  1. Any of various long-necked waterfowl, of genera Cygnus or Olor, most of which have white plumage.

Translations
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Albanian: mjellma
Anglo-Saxon: swan m
Basque: beltxarga
Belarusian: лебедзь
Bosnian: labud m
Breton: alarc’h m
Bulgarian: лебед (lebed)
Catalan: cigne
Chinese: 天鹅 (tiāné)
Croatian: labud m
Czech: labuť f
Danish: svane c
Dutch: zwaan f
Erzya: локсей (loksjej)
Esperanto: cigno
Estonian: kühmnokk-luik
Faroese: svanur m
Finnish: joutsen
French: cygne m
Frisian: swan
Friulian: cesen, cign
Galician: cisne
German: Schwan m
Greek: κύκνος (kyknos) (:el:κύκνος|^)
Hungarian: hattyú
Icelandic: álft f, svanur m
Indonesian: angsa
Interlingua: cygno
Irish: eala
Italian: cigno m
Japanese: 白鳥 (はくちょう, hakuchō)
Korean: 고니 (goni), 백조 (白鳥, baekjo)
Kurdish: qû (:ku:qû|^), qazquling (:ku:qazquling|^)
trans-mid
Ladin: zign
Latin: cygnus m
Latvian: paugurknābja gulbis
Lithuanian: gulbė
Lower Sorbian: šwon, kołp
Low Saxon: Swaan m
Macedonian: лебед (lebed)
Malayalam: അരയന്നം (arayannam), ഹംസം (hamsam)
Maltese: ċinju
Norwegian: svane m
Occitan: cicne
Old Norse: svanr m
Polish: łabędź m
Portuguese: cisne m
Romanian: lebăda
Romansh: cign
Romany: baro-gansako m, bari-papin f
Russian: лебедь (lébed’) m
Sami: njukča (cygnus gygnus), boallonjukča (cygnus olor)
Sardinian: sìsini, cisne, tzignu
Scottish Gaelic: eala
Serbian:
:Cyrillic: лабуд m
:Roman: labud m
Sicilian: cinnu
Slovak: labuť
Slovene: labod m
Spanish: cisne m
Swedish: svan
Telugu: హంస (hamsa)
Turkish: kuğu
Ukrainian: лебідь (lebid’)
Upper Sorbian: kołp
Volapük: svan
Welsh: alarch
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Verb
to swan

#UK To travel from place to place with no fixed itinerary or purpose.

Usage notes
Usually as part of the phrase "to swan about"

Anagrams
sawn

See also
cygnet
lamentation

Category:Birds


Frisian
Noun
swan

  1. swan

Category:Frisian nouns


Old English
Etymology
Common Germanic *swanaz, whence also Old High German swan, Old Norse svanr
Noun
swan m

  1. swan

Etymology
Common Germanic *swainiz, whence also Old High German swein, Old Norse sveinn
Noun
swān m

  1. lad

Category:Old English nouns

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