English
Image:Schwan1 db.jpg|thumb|A swan

Pronunciation
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Etymology
Old English swan
Noun
en-noun

1. Any of various long-necked waterfowl, of genera Cygnus or Olor, most of which have white plumage.

Translations
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Albanian: mjellma
Anglo-Saxon: swan m
Basque: beltxarga
Belarusian: лебедз�
Bosnian: labud m
Breton: alarc�h m
Bulgarian: лебед (lebed)
Catalan: cigne
Chinese: 天� (ti�né)
Croatian: labud m
Czech: labuť f
Danish: svane c
Dutch: zwaan f
Erzya: лок�ей (loksjej)
Esperanto: cigno
Estonian: kühmnokk-luik
Faroese: svanur m
Finnish: joutsen
French: cygne m
Frisian: swan
Friulian: cesen, cign
Galician: cisne
German: Schwan m
Greek: κ�κνο� (kyknos) (:el:κ�κνο�|^)
Hungarian: hattyú
Icelandic: álft f, svanur m
Indonesian: angsa
Interlingua: cygno
Irish: eala
Italian: cigno m
Japanese: �鳥 (�����, hakuch�)
Korean: 고� (goni), 백조 (�鳥, baekjo)
Kurdish: qû (:ku:qû|^), qazquling (:ku:qazquling|^)
trans-mid
Ladin: zign
Latin: cygnus m
Latvian: paugurkn�bja gulbis
Lithuanian: gulb�
Lower Sorbian: šwon, ko�p
Low Saxon: Swaan m
Macedonian: лебед (lebed)
Malayalam: �രയന�ന� (arayannam), ഹ�സ� (hamsam)
Maltese: �inju
Norwegian: svane m
Occitan: cicne
Old Norse: svanr m
Polish: �ab�dź m
Portuguese: cisne m
Romanian: leb�da
Romansh: cign
Romany: baro-gansako m, bari-papin f
Russian: лебед� (lébed�) m
Sami: njuk�a (cygnus gygnus), boallonjuk�a (cygnus olor)
Sardinian: sìsini, cisne, tzignu
Scottish Gaelic: eala
Serbian:
:Cyrillic: лаб�д m
:Roman: labud m
Sicilian: cinnu
Slovak: labuť
Slovene: labod m
Spanish: cisne m
Swedish: svan
Telugu: హ�స (hamsa)
Turkish: ku�u
Ukrainian: леб�д� (lebid�)
Upper Sorbian: ko�p
Volapük: svan
Welsh: alarch
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Verb
to swan

#UK To travel from place to place with no fixed itinerary or purpose.

Usage notes
Usually as part of the phrase "to swan about"

Anagrams
sawn

See also
cygnet
lamentation

Category:Birds

Frisian
Noun
swan

1. swan

Category:Frisian nouns

Old English
Etymology
Common Germanic *swanaz, whence also Old High German swan, Old Norse svanr
Noun
swan m

1. swan

Etymology
Common Germanic *swainiz, whence also Old High German swein, Old Norse sveinn
Noun
sw�n m

1. lad

Category:Old English nouns

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