bàn

• ban — nonstandard

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bàn (ban⁴, Zhuyin ㄅㄢˋ)

1. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 伴
2. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 办
3. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 半
4. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 埾
5. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 姅
6. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 怑
7. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 扮
8. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 拌
9. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 湴
10. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 瓣
11. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 秚
12. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 絆／绊
13. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 绊
14. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 辠
15. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 辦／办
16. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 辫
17. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 鉡／𰽰
18. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 靽

From Old Irish bán, from Proto-Celtic *bānos (“white”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂- (“shine”); Greek φᾱνός (phānós, “bright”); Sanskrit भानु (bhānú, “light”); further away is English bale (bale-fire).

• IPA^(key): /paːn/

bàn (genitive singular masculine bàin, genitive singular feminine bàine, nominative plural bàna, comparative bàine)

1. white, pale, fair

   Synonyms: fionn, geal

   taigh bàn ― a white house

2. (hair color) fair, blond

   Tha falt bàn air Seumas. ― James has blond hair.

• Edward Dwelly (1911) “bàn”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎^[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “bán”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

From Vietnamese bàn.

• (Thạch An – Tràng Định) IPA^(key): [ɓaːn˧˨]
• (Trùng Khánh) IPA^(key): [ɓaːn˩]

bàn

1. to discuss; to decide

   bàn đuổi căn ― to discuss with each other

• Léopold Michel Cadière (1910) Dictionnaire Tày-Annamite-Français [Tày-Vietnamese-French Dictionary]‎^[2] (in French), Hanoi: Impressions d'Extrême-Orient

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [ʔɓaːn˨˩]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [ʔɓaːŋ˦˩]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [ʔɓaːŋ˨˩]

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Sino-Vietnamese word from 盤 (“plate; board game”).

(classifier chiếc, cái) bàn

1. (furniture) a table
2. (board games) Synonym of ván (“a game”)

bàn

1. a board (long, wide and thin piece of wood or other material)

   bàn thờ

   an altar

   (literally, “a worship board”)

   bàn tính

   an abacus

   (literally, “a calculation board”)

   bàn cầu cơ

   a Ouija board

   bàn cờ/phím

   a board-game board/keyboard

• → Tai Dam: ꪝꪱꪙ

bàn

1. (sports, games) indicates a single score or goal

   bàn thắng

   a goal

   thua 2 bàn

   to lose by two goals

bàn • (𡂑)

1. to discuss; to talk over

• IPA^(key): /βàn/
• Hyphenation: bàn

bàn

1. name

• Karl V. Teeter (1964) The Wiyot Language, University of California press, page 81