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baan

Pronunciation: /baːn/

“baan” is a Dutch word. Its 6 meanings in English:

noun

  1. a road, way, path
  2. a track, lane
  3. a job, professional occupation
  4. orbit (path of one object around another)
  5. a job (task, or series of tasks, carried out in batch mode)
  6. court, field (place for playing sports or games, in particular non-team ball games)

Etymology

From Middle Dutch bāne, from Old Dutch *bana, from Proto-West Germanic *banu, from Proto-Germanic *banō. Compare German Bahn.

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