tan

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj. 数词 num.
中文释义
英 /tæn/|/tan/    美 /tæn/|/tæːn/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A light, brown-like colour.
  2. An Armenian drink made of yoghurt and water similar to airan and doogh
  3. Synonym of picul, particularly in Cantonese contexts. uncountable,usually
  4. A twig or small switch. dialectal
  5. A darkening of the skin resulting from exposure to sunlight or similar light sources.
    — She still has a tan from her vacation in Mexico.
  6. The bark of an oak or other tree from which tannic acid is obtained.
    — In two pints of water boil one ounce of tan, and a like portion of nutgall till reduced to a pint.
动词 v.
  1. To change to a tan colour due to exposure to the sun. intransitive,transitive
    — No matter how long I stay out in the sun, I never tan, though I do burn.
  2. To kill by gun, to shoot. Multicultural-London-English,slang,transitive
    — Step on the wing, see an opp and I'll whack it Do it like Super Savage Who's the yute I Jet-Li-rise that dots and tan him (whoosh) Rise that dots and tan him
  3. To change an animal hide into leather by soaking it in tannic acid. transitive
  4. To work as a tanner. stative,transitive
  5. To spank or beat. informal,transitive
    — "Well, go 'long and play; but mind you get back some time in a week, or I'll tan you."
形容词 adj.
  1. Yellowish-brown.
    — a tan suit
  2. Having dark skin as a result of exposure to the sun or an artificial process intended to mimic this effect.
    — You’re looking very tan this week.
数词 num.
  1. The second cardinal number two, formerly used in Celtic areas, especially Cumbria and parts of Yorkshire, for counting sheep, and stitches in knitting. dialectal,rare

词形变化

tans plural tanner comparative tannest superlative tans present,singular,third-person tanning participle,present tanned participle,past tanned past tans plural tans plural tans present,singular,third-person tanning participle,present tanned participle,past tanned past

词汇关系

衍生词
catch a tan farmer's tan flowers of tan gyle tan permatan spray tan suntan tan balls tan bed tan heat tan line tan liquor tannist tan ride tantoo tan track truck driver's tan tanbark black and tan tanness tannish tannishness tanwall overtan pretan retan spray-tan tanaholic tanhouse tanling tannability tannable tannage tanner tannery tanoak tanorexia tanorexic tan out tanpit tan someone's hide tanstuff tan up tanworks tanyard vegetan
相关词
nontan tannic acid tannin tawny

词源

词源 1
From Middle English tan, from Old French tan (“tanbark”), from Gaulish *tannos (“green oak”) – compare Breton tann (“red oak”), Old Cornish tannen –, from Proto-Celtic *tannos (“green oak”), of uncertain origin, but perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *(s)dʰonu (“fir”). Per this hypothesis, related to Hittite [script needed] (tanau, “fir”), Latin femur, genitive feminis (“thigh”), German Tann (“woods”), Tanne (“fir”), Albanian thanë (“cranberry bush”), Ancient Greek θάμνος (thámnos, “thicket”), Avestan 𐬚𐬀𐬥𐬎𐬎𐬀𐬭𐬆 (θanuuar^ə), Sanskrit धनु (dhánu).
词源 2
As a verb, from Middle English tannen, from late Old English tannian (“to tan a hide”), from Latin tannare.
词源 3
From a Brythonic language; influenced in form by yan (“one”) in the same series.
词源 4
Etymology tree
Armenian թան (tʻan)bor.
English tan
Borrowed from Armenian թան (tʻan).
词源 5
Borrowed from Cantonese 擔／担 (daam3).
词源 6
From Middle English *tan, from Old English tān (“twig, shoot, switch”), from Proto-West Germanic *tain, from Proto-Germanic *tainaz (“rod, twig, straw, lot”).
词源 7
It may either be a figurative use of the usual verb tan (“to cause to acquire a brownish colour”) or a Jamaican Creole pronunciation of turn, compare bun (“to kill particularly by gunshot”).
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