dan
Spanish, noun/ˈdan/
dan is spelled D-A-N (3 letters) and appears 145 times per million words in written Spanish, the 590th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Dan is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “dan” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a third-person plural present indicative of dar. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “En las artes marciales tales como el aikido, karate, yudo y otras de origen asiático, cada uno de los grados…”.
What does dan mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinedan
verb
- 1
third-person plural present indicative of dar
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. En las artes marciales tales como el aikido, karate, yudo y otras de origen asiático, cada uno de los grados (primer dan, segundo dan, tercer dan, etc) de los cinturones negros.
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 dan
- danes plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce dan?
- /ˈdan/
- [ˈd̪ãn]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is dan in Spanish?
dan appears 145 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).