mitan

• mytan (Gheg)

Originally a Gheg compound of mi (dialectal mbi) +‎ tanë (dialectal tërë) → literally “over(above) all”; meaning “pullover”.

mitan m (plural mitanë, definite mitani, definite plural mitanët)

1. pullover, sweater, cardigan, jumper (with long sleves)

   mitan grash, mitan burrash

   woman's sweater, man’s sweater

• pambukore f, pambukorja f
• triko f, trikoja f
• pulovër f, pulovri f

• mitan burrash
• mitan grash
• mitan fëmijësh

• [2] noun "mitan / mitán" (engl.: pullover) - def. mitáni, pl. mitánë, def.pl. mitánët • "Fjalor Shqip" (Albanian Dictionary)

• IPA^(key): /ˈmitan/
• Rhymes: -itan
• Syllabification: mi‧tan

mitan

1. accusative singular of mita

mitan

1. genitive singular of mitta

• Matin, matin, minat, namit

Inherited from Old French mitan (“middle, center”),^[1] from Latin medium tantum (“middle, center”).

• IPA^(key): /mi.tɑ̃/
• (Louisiana) IPA^(key): [mitɑ̃], [mɑ̃tɑ̃], [mito]
• Rhymes: -ɑ̃, -o

mitan m (plural mitans)

1. (archaic or dialectal; Acadia, Louisiana) middle, center

   le mitan de la journée

   the middle of the day

   • 2020, “L'eau entre mes doigts”, in Un homme et son piano, performed by P'tit Belliveau:

     Moi quand j'étais jeune / Je voulais être plus vieux / Là asteur à mon âge / J'me trouve dans l'mitan de les deux...

     [loosely] Me, when I was little / I longed to grow old / Well now I'm at an age / Where I'm torn between the two [literally: I find myself in the middle of the two...]

• poteau-mitan

• Haitian Creole: mitan
• Louisiana Creole: mitan, miton

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

• maint, matin, mâtin, minât

mitan

1. romanization of 𐌼𐌹𐍄𐌰𐌽

From French mitan (“middle”).

• IPA^(key): /mitã/

mitan

1. middle

• Targète, Jean; Urciolo, Raphael (1993), Haitian Creole-English Dictionary‎^[3], Dunwoody Press, →ISBN, page 130

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈmitan/ [ˈmi.t̪an]
• Rhymes: -itan
• Syllabification: mi‧tan

mitan (plural mitan-mitan)

1. syllabic abbreviation of minyak tanah

From Elnama

mitan (comparative lebih mitan, superlative paling mitan)

1. dry (of river)

• “mitan”, 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

• miton

Inherited from Louisiana French mitan (“middle, center”). See there for more.

• IPA^(key): /miˈtɑ̃/
• Rhymes: -ɑ̃

mitan

1. (in the) middle, center

   mitan dolo

   in the middle of the water

mitan m (plural mitans)

1. middle; centre

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mitan m (plural mitans) (Languedoc, Limousin)

1. middle; center
2. social circle; milieu

• Diccionari General de la Lenga Occitana‎^[4], L’Academia occitana – Consistòri del Gai Saber, 2008-2025, page 386

Borrowed from French mi-temps.

mitan n (plural mitanuri)

1. (sports) half time

• mitan in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN

From Proto-Austronesian *(i-)kita.

mitan

1. we (inclusive of the person spoken to)