• Finnish: kelmeä, kalmea, riutunut

• Finnish: kelmeä

Mandarin

Pinyin syllable

wan

1. A transliteration of any of a number of Chinese characters properly represented as having one of four tones, wān, wán, wǎn, or wàn.

Usage notes

English transcriptions of Chinese speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Chinese language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

Old English

Pronunciation

/wɑn/

Verb

wan

1. Alternative spelling of wann (third-person preterite singular of winnan).

   Grendel wan hwile wið Hroþgar. Grendel long fought against Hrothgar. (Beowulf ll. 151-2)

Scots

Cardinal number

wan

1. In the context of "West Central Scots|lang=sco": one.

Sranan Tongo

Etymology 1

From one.

Number

1. one

Etymology 2

From want.

Verb

1. to want

Tok Pisin

Etymology

English one

Noun

wan

1. The number one.

Cardinal number

wan

1. One. Used with units of measurement and in times: wan aua, wan klok. See also wanpela.

Wan may refer to:

• Wan is a Chinese abbreviation皖 for the province of Anhui in China.
• Wan is a common name for the people that originate from Kelantan, one of the states in Malaysia.
• Wan is the Kurdish name for the city of Van in Eastern Turkey.
• Wan means the number 'ten thousands' in Chinese.
• Wan is the Japanese onomatopoeia for a canine bark.
• In computer networking, WAN is an acronym for wide area network.
• In computer networking, WAN (actually WLAN) is a TLA for wireless area network
• World Association of Newspapers
• wan is a surname万 in Chinese

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