macan

See also: Macan

Indonesian

Pronunciation

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈmat͡ʃan/ [ˈma.t͡ʃan]
• Rhymes: -at͡ʃan
• Syllabification: ma‧can

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Etymology 1

Borrowed from Javanese ꦩꦕꦤ꧀ (macan).

Noun

macan (plural macan-macan)

1. (chiefly Java) tiger (Panthera tigris)

   Synonym: harimau

2. panther (big cat of the genus Panthera)

Derived terms

• macan-macanan
• memacani

• macan akar
• macan dahan
• macan kertas
• macan kumbang
• macan loreng
• macan ompong
• macan tutul

Etymology 2

Adjective

macan (comparative lebih macan, superlative paling macan)

1. syllabic abbreviation of manis dan cantik (literally “sweet and beautiful”)

Further reading

• “macan”, 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

Javanese

Romanization

macan

1. (Indonesian) romanization of ꦩꦕꦤ꧀

Malay

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mat͡ʃan/
• Rhymes: -at͡ʃan, -t͡ʃan, -an

Noun

macan (Jawi spelling ماچن, plural macan-macan or macan²)

1. tiger (The mammal Panthera tigris)

Synonyms

• harimau / هاريماو

Derived terms

• macan congkok / ماچن چوڠکوق
• macan gadungan / ماچن ݢادوڠن
• macan loreng / ماچن لوريڠ
• macan tutul / ماچن توتول

Old Javanese

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Unknown, probably suffixed earlier mauṅ (“wild feline”) +‎ -an before moṅ?, which is inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qari-maquŋ, mauṅan > mauan (loss of ṅ because it is phonologically heavy, "uṅa") > mawan > macan (compare to sound change in Sundanese: wa > ca, as in kiwa > ké(n)ca ("left"), see also Old Javanese kañca), but it is unlikely because the two syllables are not bridged by n.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mat͡ʃan/
• Rhymes: -t͡ʃan
• Hyphenation: ma‧can

Noun

macan

1. tiger

   Synonyms: bowoṅ, harimoṅ, hariwyāghra, moṅ, mṛgādhipa, mṛganātha, mṛgapati, mṛgaprabhu, mṛgarāja, mṛgendra, puhun, samoṅ, śārdūla, śārdūlākṛti, wasari, wasarya, wyāghra

Derived terms

• amacan
• macan-carma

Descendants

• > Javanese: ꦩꦕꦤ꧀ (macan) (inherited)

Further reading

• "macan" in P.J. Zoetmulder with the collaboration of S.O. Robson, Old Javanese-English Dictionary. 's-Gravenhage: M. Nijhoff, 1982.

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

mac (“son”) +‎ -an

Noun

macan m (genitive singular macain, plural macain)

1. diminutive of mac
2. sonny, laddie, little boy

Synonyms

• balachan

Antonyms

• nìghneag (“little girl, daughterling”)

Mutation

Mutation of macan

radical	lenition
macan	mhacan

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Scottish Gaelic.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From maca +‎ -an.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mǎt͡san/
• Hyphenation: ma‧can

Noun

màcan m anim (Cyrillic spelling ма̀цан)

1. (hypocoristic) tomcat

Declension

Declension of macan

	singular	plural
nominative	macan	macani
genitive	macana	macana
dative	macanu	macanima
accusative	macana	macane
vocative	macane	macani
locative	macanu	macanima
instrumental	macanom	macanima

Further reading

• “macan”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2026

Spanish

Verb

macan

1. third-person plural present indicative of macar