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Ran vs Nan - What's the difference?

ran | nan |

As nouns the difference between ran and nan

is that ran is a robbery (act or practice of robbing) while nan is road, path, way, street.

ran

English

Etymology 1

Verb

(head)
  • (run)

    • Etymology 2

    Noun

    (-)
  • (nautical) Yarns coiled on a spun-yarn winch.

    • Etymology 3

    (etyl) ran

    Noun

    (-)
  • (obsolete) Open robbery.
    • (Lambarde)
    (Webster 1913)

    Statistics

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    Anagrams

    * * English irregular simple past forms ----

    nan

    English

    Etymology 1

    Possibly derived from a (etyl) language.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (British) Affectionate name for a grandmother.
    • Synonyms
    * nana * nanna

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)

    • Anagrams

    * English palindromes ----