clan

Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.

• General-American, Received-Pronunciation: /klæn/
  Play
• US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  Play
• British, Northern-England, Scotland, Southern, Standard, Wales: /klan/
  Play
• New-Zealand: /klɛn/
  Play
• homophone: Klan
  Play
• rhymes with -æn
  Play
• CMU ARPABET: K L AE1 N Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
  Play

Borrowed from Irish clann (“offspring, children of the family”) and Scottish Gaelic clann, both from Old Irish cland, borrowed from Old Welsh plant, itself borrowed from Latin planta (“shoot, offspring”). Doublet of plant and planta.

129 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: fis — group having common ancestor
• Albanian: farefis — group having common ancestor
• Albanian: farë — group having common ancestor
• Northern Altai: ук (uk) — group having common ancestor
• Southern Altai: ук (uk) — group having common ancestor
• Arabic: عَشِيرَة (ʕašīra) — group having common ancestor
• Armenian: ցեղ (cʻeġ) — group having common ancestor
• Armenian: տոհմ (tohm) — group having common ancestor
• Old Armenian: ցեղ (cʻeł) — group having common ancestor
• Old Armenian: տոհմ (tohm) — group having common ancestor
• Old Armenian: զարմ (zarm) — group having common ancestor
• Avestan: 𐬬𐬍𐬯 (vīs) — group having common ancestor
• Azerbaijani: qəbilə — group having common ancestor
• Bashkir: ырыу (ırıw) — group having common ancestor
• Basque: jas — group having common ancestor
• Belarusian: клан (klan) — group having common ancestor
• Belarusian: род (rod) — group having common ancestor
• Bulgarian: клан (klan) — group having common ancestor
• Bulgarian: род (rod) — group having common ancestor
• Buryat: обог (obog) — group having common ancestor
• Buryat: омог (omog) — group having common ancestor
• Buryat: яһан (jahan) — group having common ancestor
• Chinese Mandarin: 家族 (jiāzú) — group having common ancestor
• Chinese Mandarin: 一族 (yīzú) — group having common ancestor
• Chinese Mandarin: 氏族 (shìzú) — group having common ancestor
• Chuvash: йӑх (jăh) — group having common ancestor
• Ngazidja Comorian: mɓa — group having common ancestor
• Czech: klan — group having common ancestor
• Czech: rod — group having common ancestor
• Danish: klan — group having common ancestor
• Dutch: clan — group having common ancestor
• Dutch: stam — group having common ancestor
• Dutch: sibbe — group having common ancestor
• Esperanto: klano — group having common ancestor
• Finnish: klaani — group having common ancestor
• Galician: clan — group having common ancestor
• Georgian: კლანი (ḳlani) — group having common ancestor
• German: Clan — group having common ancestor
• German: Sippe — group having common ancestor
• Hausa: zuriya — group having common ancestor
• Hebrew: חמולה (khamúla) — group having common ancestor
• Hindi: खानदान (khāndān) — group having common ancestor
• Hindi: वंश (vañś) — group having common ancestor
• Hungarian: klán — group having common ancestor
• Ido: klano — group having common ancestor
• Indonesian: klan — group having common ancestor
• Irish: clann — group having common ancestor
• Italian: clan — group having common ancestor
• Japanese: 一門 (ichimon) — group having common ancestor
• Japanese: 一族 (ichizoku) — group having common ancestor
• Japanese: 一家 (ikka) — group having common ancestor
• Japanese: クラン (kuran) — group having common ancestor
• Japanese: 氏族 (shizoku) — group having common ancestor
• Kazakh: тұқым (tūqym) — group having common ancestor
• Kazakh: ру (ru) — group having common ancestor
• Kazakh: ұқ (ūq) — group having common ancestor
• Korean: 씨족 (ssijok) — group having common ancestor
• Kyrgyz: урук (uruk) — group having common ancestor
• Kyrgyz: уруу (uruu) — group having common ancestor
• Latin: familia — group having common ancestor
• Latin: gens — group having common ancestor
• Macedonian: клан (klan) — group having common ancestor
• Macedonian: род (rod) — group having common ancestor
• Manchu: ᡶᠠᠯᡤᠠ (falga) — group having common ancestor
• Māori: hapū — group having common ancestor
• Māori: mātāwaka — group having common ancestor
• Māori: matawaka — group having common ancestor
• Marathi: कूळ (kūḷ) — group having common ancestor
• Marshallese: bwij — group having common ancestor
• Marshallese: jowi (matrilineal) — group having common ancestor
• Navajo: dóoneʼé — group having common ancestor
• Nepali: कुल (kul) — group having common ancestor
• Ngarrindjeri: laklinyeri — group having common ancestor
• Norwegian Bokmål: klan — group having common ancestor
• Norwegian Nynorsk: klan — group having common ancestor
• Pashto: خېل (xel) — group having common ancestor
• Persian: ویس (vis) — group having common ancestor
• Persian: طایفه (tâyefe) — group having common ancestor
• Persian: قبیله (qabile) — group having common ancestor
• Old Persian: 𐎻𐎰 — group having common ancestor
• Polish: klan — group having common ancestor
• Polish: ród — group having common ancestor
• Portuguese: clã — group having common ancestor
• Punjabi: ਗੋਤ (got) — group having common ancestor
• Punjabi: گوت (got) — group having common ancestor
• Russian: клан (klan) — group having common ancestor
• Russian: род (rod) — group having common ancestor
• Scottish Gaelic: clann — group having common ancestor
• Scottish Gaelic: cinneadh — group having common ancestor
• Serbo-Croatian: zadruga — group having common ancestor
• Serbo-Croatian: rod — group having common ancestor
• Serbo-Croatian: svojta — group having common ancestor
• Serbo-Croatian: bratstvo — group having common ancestor
• Slovak: klan — group having common ancestor
• Slovak: rod — group having common ancestor
• Slovene: klan — group having common ancestor
• Spanish: clan — group having common ancestor
• Sranan Tongo: lo — group having common ancestor
• Swedish: klan — group having common ancestor
• Swedish: stam — group having common ancestor
• Tagalog: angkan — group having common ancestor
• Tajik: қабила (qabila) — group having common ancestor
• Tajik: қавм (qavm) — group having common ancestor
• Tashelhit: afus — group having common ancestor
• Thai: โคตร (kôot) — group having common ancestor
• Tocharian B: kottär — group having common ancestor
• Tok Pisin: pisin — group having common ancestor
• Turkish: kabile — group having common ancestor
• Turkish: boy — group having common ancestor
• Turkmen: urug — group having common ancestor
• Ugaritic: 𐎜𐎎𐎚 (ủmt) — group having common ancestor
• Ukrainian: рід (rid) — group having common ancestor
• Ukrainian: клан (klan) — group having common ancestor
• Uzbek: urugʻ — group having common ancestor
• Vietnamese: thị tộc — group having common ancestor
• Volapük: dafamül — group having common ancestor
• Welsh: clan — group having common ancestor
• Welsh: claniau — group having common ancestor
• Western Yugur: oruɣ — group having common ancestor
• Yakut: уус (uus) — group having common ancestor
• Yakut: аҕа ууһа (ağa uuha) — group having common ancestor
• Yakut: ийэ ууһа (iye uuha) — group having common ancestor
• Buryat: отог (otog) — group of relatives with some degree of political organization
• Danish: klan — group of relatives with some degree of political organization
• Czech: klan — group of players who habitually play on the same team in multiplayer games
• Marathi: क्लॅन (klĕn) — group of players who habitually play on the same team in multiplayer games
• Polish: klan — group of players who habitually play on the same team in multiplayer games
• Portuguese: clã — group of players who habitually play on the same team in multiplayer games
• Russian: клан (klan) — group of players who habitually play on the same team in multiplayer games