solan

See also: Solan

English

Etymology

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Noun

solan (plural solans)

1. solan goose
   • 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:

     There, if you are in luck, you will find the tide out and the place fordable dryshod for a man on a horse. But if the tide runs, you will do well to sit down on the sands and content yourself till it turn, or it will be the solans and scarts of the Solway that will be seeing the next of you.

Anagrams

• loans, Nosal, Alons, Sơn La, lonas, Sloan, Nolas, Lonas, salon

Esperanto

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsolan/
• Rhymes: -olan
• Syllabification: so‧lan

Adjective

solan

1. accusative singular of sola

Finnish

Noun

solan

1. genitive singular of sola

Anagrams

• Salon, salon

Galician

Verb

solan

1. third-person plural present indicative of solar

Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈso.lɑn/

Noun

solan

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

Romanian

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin solanum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /so.ˈlan/
• Rhymes: -an
• Hyphenation: so‧lan

Noun

solan m (plural solani)

1. black nightshade (Solanum nigrum)

   Synonym: zârnă

Declension

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	solan	solanul	solani	solanii
genitive-dative	solan	solanului	solani	solanilor
vocative	solanule		solanilor

References

• “solan”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2026
• solan in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN