van

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• British, Southern, Standard: /van/
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• British, Southern, Standard: /vaːn/ bad–lad split
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* In the United States, usually taken from a first name or surname. * In Wales, from Y Fan, see Welsh fan.

Shortening.

From Turkish Van, from Ottoman Turkish وان (Van), from Middle Armenian Վան (Van).

Abbreviation of Vancouver.

Short for caravan.

Shortening of vanguard.

From Cornish.

From Latin vannus (“a van, or fan for winnowing grain”): compare French van and English fan, winnow. Doublet of fan.

Backformed from Van cat and Turkish Van.

165 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: بُحَيْرَة وَان (buḥayrat wān) — lake
• Arabic: بُحَيْرَة الطِرِّيخ (buḥayrat aṭ-ṭirrīḵ) — lake
• Arabic: بُحَيْرَة أَرْجِيش (buhayrat ʔarjīš) — lake
• Armenian: Վանա լիճ (Vana lič) — lake
• Armenian: Վան — lake
• Danish: Vansøen — lake
• Finnish: Vanjärvi — lake
• German: Van — lake
• Latin: Arsene — lake
• Russian: Ван — lake
• Serbo-Croatian: Van — lake
• Swedish: Vansjön — lake
• Turkish: Van Gölü — lake
• Uyghur: ۋان كۆلى (wan köli) — lake
• Arabic: وَان (wān) — city
• Armenian: Վան — city
• Old Armenian: Վան — city
• Danish: Van — city
• Finnish: Van — city
• German: Van — city
• Central Kurdish: وان (wan) — city
• Northern Kurdish: Wan — city
• Persian: وان (vân) — city
• Russian: Ван — city
• Serbo-Croatian: jezero Van — city
• Turkish: Van — city
• Uyghur: ۋان (wan) — city
• Albanian: furgon — a covered vehicle
• Arabic: عَرَبَة نَقْل (ʕarabat naql) — a covered vehicle
• Arabic: عربيه نقل (ʕarabéyya naʔl) — a covered vehicle
• Arabic: ميكروباص (mekrobass) — a covered vehicle
• Armenian: ֆուրգոն (furgon) — a covered vehicle
• Azerbaijani: furqon — a covered vehicle
• Belarusian: фурго́н (furhón) — a covered vehicle
• Belarusian: вэн (ven) — a covered vehicle
• Bulgarian: фурго́н (furgón) — a covered vehicle
• Bulgarian: ван (van) — a covered vehicle
• Catalan: furgoneta — a covered vehicle
• Chinese Mandarin: 貨車 /货车 (huòchē) — a covered vehicle
• Chinese Mandarin: 麵包車 /面包车 (miànbāochē) — a covered vehicle
• Chinese Mandarin: 廂型車 /厢型车 (xiāngxíngchē) — a covered vehicle
• Czech: dodávka — a covered vehicle
• Czech: dodávkový vůz — a covered vehicle
• Danish: varevogn — a covered vehicle
• Danish: varebil — a covered vehicle
• Danish: kassevogn — a covered vehicle
• Dutch: bestelwagen — a covered vehicle
• Dutch: busje — a covered vehicle
• Esperanto: kamioneto — a covered vehicle
• Estonian: furgoon — a covered vehicle
• Estonian: pakiauto — a covered vehicle
• Estonian: kaubik — a covered vehicle
• Finnish: pakettiauto — a covered vehicle
• Finnish: pikkubussi — a covered vehicle
• Finnish: tila-auto — a covered vehicle
• French: fourgon — a covered vehicle
• French: fourgonnette — a covered vehicle
• French: camionnette — a covered vehicle
• Georgian: ფურგონი (purgoni) — a covered vehicle
• German: Transporter — a covered vehicle
• German: Lieferwagen — a covered vehicle
• Greek: φορτηγάκι (fortigáki) — a covered vehicle
• Greek: βαν (van) — a covered vehicle
• Hebrew: עגלת צב — a covered vehicle
• Hebrew: משאית סגורה (masait sgura) — a covered vehicle
• Hebrew: סעון (saon) — a covered vehicle
• Hebrew: משלוחית (mishlokhit) — a covered vehicle
• Hebrew: טרנזיט (tranzit) — a covered vehicle
• Hungarian: furgon — a covered vehicle
• Hungarian: kisbusz — a covered vehicle
• Hungarian: kisteherautó — a covered vehicle
• Icelandic: sendibíll — a covered vehicle
• Ido: charioto — a covered vehicle
• Irish: veain — a covered vehicle
• Italian: furgone — a covered vehicle
• Japanese: バン (ban) — a covered vehicle
• Japanese: 貨車 (kasha) — a covered vehicle
• Kazakh: фургон (furgon) — a covered vehicle
• Khmer: ភណ្ឌរថ (phôndôrôth) — a covered vehicle
• Korean: 반 (ban) — a covered vehicle
• Korean: 승합차 (seunghapcha) — a covered vehicle
• Kyrgyz: фургон (furgon) — a covered vehicle
• Lao: ລົດຕູ້ (lot tū) — a covered vehicle
• Latvian: furgons — a covered vehicle
• Lithuanian: furgonas — a covered vehicle
• Macedonian: ко́мбе (kómbe) — a covered vehicle
• Macedonian: фурго́н (furgón) — a covered vehicle
• Malay: van — a covered vehicle
• Manx: van — a covered vehicle
• Manx: carr — a covered vehicle
• Central Melanau: ven — a covered vehicle
• Norwegian Bokmål: varebil — a covered vehicle
• Norwegian Nynorsk: varebil — a covered vehicle
• Iranian Persian: وَن (van) — a covered vehicle
• Polish: van — a covered vehicle
• Polish: blaszak — a covered vehicle
• Polish: blaszanka — a covered vehicle
• Polish: bus — a covered vehicle
• Portuguese: furgão — a covered vehicle
• Portuguese: van — a covered vehicle
• Romanian: furgonetă — a covered vehicle
• Romanian: dubă — a covered vehicle
• Romanian: autodubă — a covered vehicle
• Romanian: dubiță — a covered vehicle
• Romanian: autodubiță — a covered vehicle
• Russian: фурго́н (furgón) — a covered vehicle
• Russian: фу́ра (fúra) — a covered vehicle
• Russian: вэн (vɛn) — a covered vehicle
• Serbo-Croatian: ко̏мби — a covered vehicle
• Serbo-Croatian: kȍmbi — a covered vehicle
• Slovak: dodávkový automobil — a covered vehicle
• Spanish: furgoneta — a covered vehicle
• Spanish: furgón — a covered vehicle
• Spanish: van — a covered vehicle
• Spanish: autobusete — a covered vehicle
• Spanish: minibús — a covered vehicle
• Spanish: microbús — a covered vehicle
• Spanish: combi — a covered vehicle
• Swedish: skåpbil — a covered vehicle
• Swedish: paketbil — a covered vehicle
• Swedish: minibuss — a covered vehicle
• Swedish: familjebuss — a covered vehicle
• Swedish: van — a covered vehicle
• Tagalog: van — a covered vehicle
• Tajik: фургон (furgon) — a covered vehicle
• Thai: รถตู้ (rót-dtûu) — a covered vehicle
• Thai: รถบรรทุก (rót-ban-túk) — a covered vehicle
• Turkish: hafif ticari araç — a covered vehicle
• Turkish: furgon — a covered vehicle
• Turkmen: furgon — a covered vehicle
• Ukrainian: фурго́н (furhón) — a covered vehicle
• Ukrainian: вен (ven) — a covered vehicle
• Uzbek: furgon — a covered vehicle
• Vietnamese: xe van — a covered vehicle
• Vietnamese: xe ô tô khách — a covered vehicle
• Welsh: fan — a covered vehicle
• Yiddish: משׂא־פֿור (mase-fur) — a covered vehicle
• Belarusian: ваго́н (vahón) — enclosed railway vehicle for transport of goods
• Bulgarian: ваго́н (vagón) — enclosed railway vehicle for transport of goods
• Catalan: camioneta — enclosed railway vehicle for transport of goods
• Catalan: vagó — enclosed railway vehicle for transport of goods
• Chinese Mandarin: 車廂 /车厢 (chēxiāng) — enclosed railway vehicle for transport of goods
• Danish: wagon — enclosed railway vehicle for transport of goods
• Dutch: rijtuig — enclosed railway vehicle for transport of goods
• Dutch: wagon — enclosed railway vehicle for transport of goods
• Esperanto: vagono — enclosed railway vehicle for transport of goods
• Finnish: umpivaunu — enclosed railway vehicle for transport of goods
• Finnish: härkävaunu — enclosed railway vehicle for transport of goods
• Georgian: ვაგონი (vagoni) — enclosed railway vehicle for transport of goods
• Greek: βαγόνι (vagóni) — enclosed railway vehicle for transport of goods
• Hungarian: vagon — enclosed railway vehicle for transport of goods
• Hungarian: kocsi — enclosed railway vehicle for transport of goods
• Italian: vagone merci — enclosed railway vehicle for transport of goods
• Japanese: 客車 (kyakusha) — enclosed railway vehicle for transport of goods
• Korean: 객차 (gaekcha) — enclosed railway vehicle for transport of goods
• Macedonian: ва́гон (vágon) — enclosed railway vehicle for transport of goods
• Manx: carr — enclosed railway vehicle for transport of goods
• Polish: samochód dostawczy — enclosed railway vehicle for transport of goods
• Polish: furgonetka — enclosed railway vehicle for transport of goods
• Polish: dostawczak — enclosed railway vehicle for transport of goods
• Portuguese: vagão — enclosed railway vehicle for transport of goods
• Romanian: vagon — enclosed railway vehicle for transport of goods
• Russian: ваго́н (vagón) — enclosed railway vehicle for transport of goods
• Spanish: vagón — enclosed railway vehicle for transport of goods
• Ukrainian: ваго́н (vahón) — enclosed railway vehicle for transport of goods