I-lan

See also: Ilan, ilan, and ilân

English

Etymology 1

From the Wade–Giles romanization of the Mandarin 宜蘭 (I²-lan²).

Proper noun

I-lan

1. Alternative form of Yilan
   • 1966 December, “Taiwan”, in Alice Taylor, editor, Focus‎^[1], volume 17, number 4, American Geographical Society, page 2:

     Although Taiwan has the advantages of abundant rains and a long growing season, which make it possible in much of the cultivated area to grow two and even three crops a year on the same plot, there are handicaps. Surface configuration and poor soils have limited the arable area to the western plains, the T'ai-tung Valley, and the I-lan Plain-or only some 24 per cent of the land surface in all.

   • 1968, George M. Davis, “A Systematic Study of Oncomelania hupensis chiui (Gastropoda: Hydrobiidae)”, in Malacologia‎^[2], volume 7, number 1, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 65:

     Moreover, the anatomical and biophysical studies described in this paper have not only indicated the snail first described as "Tricula" to be a subspecies of Oncomelania hupensis, but to be most closely related to O. h. formosana, and, in particular, to a population of that subspecies from I-lan county, also located in the northern tip of Taiwan.

   • 1970, Leonard H. D. Gordon, editor, Taiwan : Studies in Chinese Local History‎^[3], Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 49:

     Elsewhere, on the east coast an auxiliary force composed of Ōsaka Fourth Division reserves staged landings in the I-lan district on June 21, and in only two days' time had peacefully entered the main towns of Lo-tung and I-lan in that area.

   • 1972, Peng Ming-min, A Taste of Freedom‎^[4], Holt, Rinehart and Winston, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 206:

     I was told that the security agencies had determined that in the event of a public disturbance of any kind, three men would be destroyed at once. They were Henry Kao, the present mayor of Taipei, Kuo Yu-shin, an outspoken non-K.M.T. member of the Provincial Assembly elected by a solid constituency in I-lan, and me. The three of us were referred to in security documents by a coded sign, three concentric circles.

Translations

Yilan — see Yilan

Etymology 2

Map including 依蘭 I-LAN (SAN-HSING) 三姓 (AMS, 1955)

From the Wade–Giles romanization of the Mandarin 依蘭 (I¹-lan²).

Proper noun

I-lan

1. Alternative form of Yilan

Translations

Yilan — see Yilan

Anagrams

• INLA, LNAI, Lain, Lani, Lian, Lina, Nila, anil, lain, nail