name
Meaning 1
A surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
rattan
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Pronunciation
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UK: /ɹəˈtan/
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UK: /ˈɹatan/
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US: /ɹəˈtæn/
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rhymes with -æn
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CMU ARPABET: R AE0 T AE1 N Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
Any of several species of climbing palm of the genus Calamus.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 3
The plant used as a material for making furniture, baskets etc.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
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noun
Meaning 4
A cane made from this material.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: broadly, countable, uncountable
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verb
Meaning 5
To beat with a rattan cane.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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noun
Meaning 6
a switch made from the stems of the rattan palms
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: ratan
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: switch
noun
Meaning 7
the stem of various climbing palms of the genus Calamus and related genera used to make wickerwork and furniture and canes
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: rattan cane
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: cane
noun
Meaning 8
climbing palm of Sri Lanka and southern India remarkable for the great length of the stems which are used for malacca canes
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: rattan palm, Calamus rotang
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: calamus
History
Etymology
Borrowed from Malay rotan.
Across languages
Translations
77 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Aklanon: uway — climbing palm
- Chungli Ao: arer — climbing palm
- Berawan: laka — climbing palm
- Cebuano: uway — climbing palm
- Chinese Mandarin: 藤 (téng) — climbing palm
- Danish: rotting — climbing palm
- Danish: rattan — climbing palm
- Dutch: rotan — climbing palm
- Finnish: rottinkipalmu — climbing palm
- French: rotin — climbing palm
- German: Rattan — climbing palm
- German: Rotangpalme — climbing palm
- Higaonon: balagun — climbing palm
- Hungarian: rotángpálma — climbing palm
- Indonesian: rotan — climbing palm
- Irish: ratán — climbing palm
- Italian: rattan — climbing palm
- Malay: rotan — climbing palm
- Brunei Malay: rutan — climbing palm
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: belaɣen — climbing palm
- Central Melanau: wai — climbing palm
- Norwegian Bokmål: rotang — climbing palm
- Norwegian Nynorsk: rotang — climbing palm
- Paiwan: quai — climbing palm
- Polish: rotang — climbing palm
- Polish: rattan — climbing palm
- Portuguese: rotim — climbing palm
- Portuguese: rota — climbing palm
- Russian: рота́нг (rotáng) — climbing palm
- Sebop: laka — climbing palm
- Spanish: ratán — climbing palm
- Swedish: rotting — climbing palm
- Tamil: பிரம்பு (pirampu) — climbing palm
- Tamil: சூரல் (cūral) — climbing palm
- Tausug: uay — climbing palm
- Telugu: పేము (pēmu) — climbing palm
- Ternate: uri — climbing palm
- Thai: หวาย (wǎai) — climbing palm
- Turkish: rattan — climbing palm
- Turkish: hezaren — climbing palm
- Ottoman Turkish: هزارن (hezaren) — climbing palm
- Vietnamese: mây — climbing palm
- Vietnamese: song — climbing palm
- West Makian: weri — climbing palm
- Afrikaans: rottang — material
- Burmese: ကြိမ် (krim) — material
- Chinese Mandarin: 藤 (téng) — material
- Chinese Mandarin: 藤條 /藤条 (téngtiáo) — material
- Danish: rotting — material
- Danish: rattan — material
- Dutch: rotan — material
- Finnish: rottinki — material
- French: rotin — material
- German: Peddigrohr — material
- German: Rattan — material
- Hungarian: rotángpálma — material
- Indonesian: rotan — material
- Ingrian: saksanrooko — material
- Irish: ratán — material
- Malay: rotan — material
- Brunei Malay: rutan — material
- Norwegian Bokmål: rotting — material
- Norwegian Bokmål: rotang — material
- Norwegian Nynorsk: rotting — material
- Norwegian Nynorsk: rotang — material
- Polish: rotang — material
- Portuguese: rotim — material
- Russian: рота́нг (rotáng) — material
- Spanish: ratán — material
- Swedish: rotting — material
- Tamil: பிரம்பு (pirampu) — material
- Thai: หวาย (wǎai) — material
- Turkish: rattan — material
- Turkish: hezaren — material
- Ottoman Turkish: هزارن (hezaren) — material
- Vietnamese: mây — material
- Vietnamese: song — material
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