ラン

Japanese

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English run.[1]

Noun

ラン • (ran

  1. run (act or instance of running)
  2. (computing) run (execution of a program)
    Synonym: 実行 (jikkō)
  3. (baseball, in compounds) run (score in baseball)
Derived terms

Verb

ランする • (ran surusuru (stem ラン (ran shi), past ランした (ran shita))

  1. to run
  2. (computing) to run (a program)
    Synonym: 実行 する (jikkō suru)
Conjugation
Conjugation of "ランする" (See Appendix:Japanese verbs)
Katsuyōkei ("stem forms")
Mizenkei ("imperfective") ランし ran shi
Ren’yōkei ("continuative") ランし ran shi
Shūshikei ("terminal") ランする ran suru
Rentaikei ("attributive") ランする ran suru
Kateikei ("hypothetical") ランすれ ran sure
Meireikei ("imperative") ランせよ¹
ランしろ²
ran seyo¹
ran shiro²
Key constructions
Passive ランされる ran sareru
Causative ランさせる
ランさす
ran saseru
ran sasu
Potential ランできる ran dekiru
Volitional ランしよう ran shiyō
Negative ランしない ran shinai
Negative continuative ランせず ran sezu
Formal ランします ran shimasu
Perfective ランした ran shita
Conjunctive ランして ran shite
Hypothetical conditional ランすれば ran sureba

¹ Written imperative
² Spoken imperative

Etymology 2

Borrowed from French Laon.[1]

Proper noun

ラン • (Ran

  1. Laon (a city in Aisne department, Hauts-de-France, France)

Etymology 3

For pronunciation and definitions of ラン – see the following entries.
らんJ
[noun] an orchid
[noun] a style of 家紋 (kamon, family crest), featuring designs of orchid flowers and/or leaves
[noun] (archaic) synonym of 藤袴 (fujibakama): Eupatorium fortunei, a type of flower of the family Asteraceae
[proper noun] short for 阿蘭陀, 和蘭, 和蘭陀 (Oranda): Holland, the Netherlands, Dutch
[proper noun] a female given name
[proper noun] a surname
LAN
[noun] LAN (local area network)
(This term, ラン (ran), is the katakana spelling of the above terms.)

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN