antan

Inherited from Proto-Mongolic *altan. Compare Mongolian алт (alt), Buryat алтан (altan), Kalmyk алтн (altn), Daur alt.

• IPA^(key): /ɑnˈtʰɑn/

antan

1. gold

• Ma Guozhong (马国忠); Chen Yuanlong (陈元龙) (2012), “antan”, in 东乡语汉语词典 [Dongxiang-Chinese Dictionary] (in Chinese), 2nd edition, Lanzhou: 甘肃民族出版社, →ISBN, page 15

Inherited from Old French antan, from Latin ante annum.

• IPA^(key): /ɑ̃.tɑ̃/

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• Homophones: entend, entends

antan m (plural antans)

1. (archaic) last year
2. yesteryear, the old days, yore

   Mes amours d'antan.

   My loves from long ago.

It is never used as a stand-alone noun anymore, but only preceded by the preposition de (d'antan), thus functioning as an adjectival phrase.

• hockey d'antan
• neiges d'antan
• se soucier de quelque chose comme des neiges d'antan

• “antan”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

• tanna

From Malay antan, from Old Javanese hantĕn. Doublet of alu.

• IPA^(key): /ˈan.tan/, [ˈan̪.t̪an]
• Rhymes: -an
• Hyphenation: an‧tan

antan (plural antan-antan)

1. pestle

• “antan”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

From Old Javanese hantĕn. Doublet of alu.

• IPA^(key): /ˈantan/ [ˈan̪.t̪an]
• Rhymes: -an

antan (Jawi spelling انتن, plural antan-antan or antan²)

1. pestle

• Indonesian: antan

• "antan" in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu (PRPM) [Malay Literary Reference Centre (PRPM)] (in Malay), Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017