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adán

Spanish, noun/aˈdan/

adán is spelled A-D-Á-N (4 letters) and appears 4.8 times per million words in written Spanish, the 12,318th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Adán is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “shabby, unkempt or shoddy person” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Hombre pobremente vestido, desaliñado o harapiento”.

What does adán mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    colloquialmasculineshabby, unkempt or shoddy person

noun

  1. 1

    masculineadhan

Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Spanish dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Hombre pobremente vestido, desaliñado o harapiento.

The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.

Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of adán

  • adanes plural

Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce adán?

  • /aˈdan/
  • [aˈð̞ãn]

Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to adán

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is adán in Spanish?

adán appears 4.8 times per million words in written Spanish.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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