"fan" meaning in French

See fan in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /fan/ Forms: fans [plural]
Etymology: Borrowed from English fan, 1920s. Etymology templates: {{bor|fr|en|fan|id=admirer}} English fan Head templates: {{fr-noun|mfbysense}} fan m or f by sense (plural fans)
  1. fan (admirer, supporter) Tags: by-personal-gender, feminine, masculine
    Sense id: en-fan-fr-noun-La39~BrN Categories (other): French masculine and feminine nouns by sense
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Noun

IPA: /fan/ Forms: fans [plural]
Etymology: Borrowed from English fan. Etymology templates: {{bor|fr|en|fan||id=electrical device}} English fan Head templates: {{fr-noun|f}} fan f (plural fans)
  1. (Canada) fan (ventilator) Tags: Canada, feminine
    Sense id: en-fan-fr-noun-fYHjBdHy Categories (other): Canadian French, French entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of French entries with incorrect language header: 26 74
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for fan meaning in French (1.8kB)

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable French dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

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