Luan

See also: Appendix:Variations of "luan"

English

Etymology 1

From Mandarin 欒 / 栾 (Luán).

Proper noun

Luan

1. A surname from Mandarin.
   • 2010 April 9, Loa Iok-sin, “Jiang backs betel ‘justice’”, in Taipei Times‎^[1], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 16 April 2010, Taiwan News, page 2‎^[2]:

     Luan Cheng (欒丞), an officer from the Jhonghe Second Police Precinct, on Tuesday approached 19-year-old Yen Ju-yi (顏如憶) who was selling betel nuts at a small shop in Jhonghe City (中和), Taipei County, and told her she was showing too much skin and may have violated the law. […]
     While Yen has accused Luan of causing bodily harm, Luan said that Yen prevented an officer of the law from exercising his duties and slandered him.

Etymology 2

Proper noun

Luan

1. Alternative form of Lu'an.
   • 1977 July 7 [1977 July 2], “Anhwei Rallies Denounce Former Provincial Leader”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 130, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Hofei Anhwei Provincial Service, translation of original in Mandarin, →ISSN, →OCLC, People's Republic of China: East Region, page G 1:

     All prefectures and municipalities in Anhwei have held mass rallies to acclaim the instructions of Chariman Hua, Vice Chairman Yeh and leading comrades of the central authorities on solving the leadership problem in the provincial CCP committee and to expose and criticize the mistakes of the former principal leading person of the provincial CCP committee. […]
     Some 40,000 people attended a Luan Prefecture rally on 30 June. (Hu Tan), secretary of the prefectural CCP committee; (Wang Min-hsueh), political commissar of Luan Military Subdistrict, and others addressed the rally.

   • 2014 October 9, Wu Nan, “Drink-driving bungle; Fake goods up in flames; Ex-official denies gambling”, in South China Morning Post‎^[3], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 12 October 2014, China Insider‎^[4]:

     A man has been arrested in Huoshan county near Luan for drink-driving after he rang up the police by mistake and then challenged an officer to a fight, […]

Usage notes

Luan can be considered a misspelling of Lu'an. In theory, a syllable-dividing mark (隔音符號／隔音符号 (géyīn fúhào)) should be added before a non-initial syllable beginning with a, o, or e. Hence, Luan could only ever refer to a word made up of the single syllable luan (see Etymology 1 above, where the single syllable Luan is a surname) since a word made up of lu and an would be spelled as Lu'an (cf. Lu'an). In practice, syllable-dividing marks are often added or omitted at will.

Albanian

Proper noun

Luan m

1. a male given name

Declension

Declension of Luan

	singular
	indefinite	definite
nominative	Luan	Luani
accusative		Luanin
dat./abl.	Luani	Luanit

References

• Dražić, Marina, Antić, Ivana, editors (2019), Каталог најчешћих албанских имена и презимена [Catalogue of the most common Albanian names and surnames]‎^[5] (in Serbo-Croatian), page 36

Irish

Etymology

From Middle Irish lúan.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l̪ˠuən̪ˠ/, /l̪ˠuənˠ/

Noun

Luan m (genitive singular Luain, nominative plural Luanta)

1. Monday

Declension

Declension of Luan (first declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative Luan Luanta vocative a Luain a Luanta genitive Luain Luanta dative Luan Luanta forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an Luan na Luanta genitive an Luain na Luanta dative leis an Luan don Luan leis na Luanta

Derived terms

• Dé Luain
• Luan Cásca
• Luan Cincíse
• Luan an tSléibhe

See also

• days of the week (appendix): Domhnach · Luan · Máirt · Céadaoin · Déardaoin · Aoine · Satharn ^[edit]

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlwan/ [ˈlwãn]
• Rhymes: -an
• Syllabification: Luan

Proper noun

Luan m

1. a male given name