pisan

See also: Pisan, pisaṅ, pīsan, and писан

English

Noun

pisan (plural pisans)

1. Alternative form of pisane
   • 1797, John Pinkerton, The History Of Scotland From The Accession Of The House Of Stuart To That Of Mary: With Appendixes Of Original Papers. In Two Volumes, page 406:

     [Those] worth ten pounds a year in land, or more, shall have basnet, sallat (or helm without a crest,) white-hat, gorget or pisan, armour for the legs, sword, spear, and dagger: those of smaller incomes to arm accordingly.

   • 1889, Bernard Homer Dixon, The Border Or Riding Clans: Followed by a History of the Clan Dickson and a Brief Account of the Family of the Author, Albany, N.Y.: J. Munsell's Sons, page 78:

     […] halbrik or brigantine, gorget or pisan with splents, knee.pans of mail and gauntlets of plate or mail; that unlanded gentlemen and yeoman have jacks of plate, halbriks, splents, sallat or steel bonnet with pisan or gorget  […]

   • 1923, Edmund Curtis, A History of Mediaeval Ireland from 1110 to 1513, page 411:

     Garret was the true “Ard Ri” of a large part of Ireland, and the chiefs to whom he presented the horses, coats of mail, gorgets and pisans recorded in the Rental looked on these as the customary stipends due from an over-king.

Anagrams

• ispán, piñas, aspin, spina, Spain, SPINA, NSAPI, IP SAN, PAINs, pains, Pains, PAINS, nipas, pinas

Bikol Central

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpisan/ [ˈpi.san̪]
• Hyphenation: pi‧san

Adjective

písan (Basahan spelling ᜉᜒᜐᜈ᜔)

1. rare

   Synonym: bihira

French

Pronunciation

• Audio (Switzerland):

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Adjective

pisan (feminine pisane, masculine plural pisans, feminine plural pisanes)

1. Pisan (from Pisa)

Anagrams

• pains, pinas, sapin

Galician

Verb

pisan

1. third-person plural present indicative of pisar

Kapampangan

Noun

pisan

1. cousin

Middle English

Etymology

Old French, see English pisane.

Noun

pisan (plural pisans)

1. a pisane (armor collar of mail or plate, or by extension an ornamental collar)

Alternative forms

• pysan, pesane, pysane, pesayn, pesan, peseyn, pisone, pusayne, pusen, pysayne, pyson

Old English

Noun

pisan

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

Romanian

Etymology

From Pisa +‎ -an.

Adjective

pisan m or n (feminine singular pisană, masculine plural pisani, feminine and neuter plural pisane)

1. Pisan

Declension

Declension of pisan

		singular			plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine	masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative/ accusative	indefinite	pisan		pisană	pisani	pisane
	definite	pisanul		pisana	pisanii	pisanele
genitive/ dative	indefinite	pisan		pisane	pisani	pisane
	definite	pisanului		pisanei	pisanilor	pisanelor

References

• pisan in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

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Adjective

pȋsān (Cyrillic spelling пи̑са̄н)

1. written

Declension

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Spanish

Verb

pisan

1. third-person plural present indicative of pisar

Sundanese

Etymology

cf. Javanese ꦥꦶꦱꦤ꧀ (pisan), Banjarese pisan

Adverb

pisan (Sundanese script ᮕᮤᮞᮔ᮪)

1. very; utterly

   Synonyms: amat, jasa (dialectal, Banten)

   ngeunah pisan

   very tasty

Further reading

• Maman Sumantri, et al. (1985) Kamus Sunda-Indonesia [Sundanese-Indonesian Dictionary] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Department of Education and Culture of the Republic of Indonesia

• "PISAN", Coolsma, S (1913) Soendaneesch-Hollandsch Woordenboek (in Dutch), Leiden: A.W. Sijthoff's Uitgeversmaatschappij

Tagalog

Etymology 1

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *pisan. Doublet of pinsan.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈpisan/ [ˈpiː.sɐn̪]
• Rhymes: -isan
• Syllabification: pi‧san

Adjective

pisan (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜒᜐᜈ᜔)

1. stuck together, strung together

   Synonyms: magkasama, magkadikit

Noun

pisan (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜒᜐᜈ᜔)

1. a roommate, a housemate

   Synonyms: kabahay, nakabahay

Derived terms

• bahay-kapisanan
• kapisan
• kapisanan
• magkapisan
• magpipisan
• pagpisan-pisanin

 

Etymology 2

Possibly related to Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *pasaŋ (“flood tide”).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /piˈsan/ [pɪˈsan̪]
• Rhymes: -an
• Syllabification: pi‧san

Noun

pisán (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜒᜐᜈ᜔)

1. (literary) flood

   Synonym: baha

Anagrams

• aspin, Pinas, panis, sinap, sapin