Tran

Anglicization of Vietnamese Trần. Doublet of Tan, Chen, and Chan.

• IPA^(key): /tɹæn/

Tran (plural Trans)

1. A surname from Vietnamese.
   • 2023 January 23, Jeff Winter, Casey Tolan, Scott Glover, “Gunman had been a regular patron at dance hall he attacked, according to people who knew him”, in CNN‎^[1], archived from the original on 30 March 2023:

     Police say Huu Can Tran, 72, opened fire at Star Ballroom Dance Studio in the Los Angeles suburb of Monterey Park, on Saturday night, before fatally shooting himself after a manhunt across the region on Sunday. […] It is unclear how frequently Tran visited the dance hall, if at all, in recent years.

• ar'n't, Tarn, tarn, natr-, tRNA, arn't, trna, rant, /rant

Borrowed from Vietnamese Trần.

Tran m anim (female equivalent Tranová)

1. a surname from Vietnamese

• “Tran”, in Příjmení.cz (in Czech)

Borrowed from Vietnamese Trần.

Tran ?

1. a surname from Vietnamese

• IPA^(key): [tʁaːn]

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• Hyphenation: Tran
• Rhymes: -aːn

Borrowed from Middle Low German trān (“tear”), from Old Saxon *trahn, Proto-Germanic *trahnuz. Doublet of Träne.

Tran m (strong, genitive Tranes or Trans, plural Trane)

1. train oil; oil extracted from the fatty tissue (blubber) of certain polar mammals

   Synonym: Polaröl

• → Polish: tran

From Etymology 1 above in the sense of "drops (tears) of alcohol." Compare Träne.

Tran m (strong, genitive Tranes or Trans, plural Trane)

1. delirium (chiefly used in the expression im Tran)

• Tran on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de
• “Tran” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “Tran” in Duden online
• “Tran” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon