İngilizce-Türkçe-Almanca sözlük

1. Zamanın bölünemeyecek kadar kısa parçası, lahza:"Emaneti bir an önce evine götürseler, iyi olur."- A. İlhan. İki tarla arasındaki sınır. Zihin.
2. s. (ünlülerden önce) bir. a. bir. bir. s. (ünlülerden önce) bir.
3. ana- önek yukarı; a, tekrar; bir ünlü ile başlayan kelimelerden evvel kullanılan belgesiz sıfat.
4. -de. -da. yanında. kenarında. -e. -a. yanına. kenarına.
5. bir.
6. bir.

Etymology : Middle English, from Old English An one; more at ONE
Pronunciation : &n, ()an
Function : indefinite article
Date : before 12th century

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1. moment. split second. second. instant. wink. flash. jiff. jiffy. minute. point. snatch. span. trice.
2. indefinite article used before a word which starts with a vowel. an\an\ (ăn). [as. ān one, the same word as the numeral. see: one, and cf. a.] this word is properly an adjective, but is commonly called the indefinite article. it is used before nouns of the singular number only, and signifies one, or any, but somewhat less emphatically. in such expressions as "twice an hour," "once an age," a shilling an ounce (see: 2d a, 2), it has a distributive force, and is equivalent to each, every.note: an is used before a word beginning with a vowel sound; as, an enemy, an hour. it in also often used before h sounded, when the accent of the word falls on the second syllable; as, an historian, an hyena, an heroic deed. many writers use a before h in such positions. anciently an was used before consonants as well as vowels.an \an\, conj. [shortened fr. and, oe. an., and, sometimes and if, in introducing conditional clauses, like icel. enda if, the same word as and. prob. and was originally pleonastic before the conditional clause.] if; -- a word used by old english authors. nay, an thou dalliest, then i am thy foe. jonson.an if, and if; if.
3. flash. instant. jiffy. minute. moment. point. second. shake. snatch. span. tick. time. twinkling.
4. This word is properly an adjective, but is commonly called the indefinite article.
5. It is used before nouns of the singular number only, and signifies one, or any, but somewhat less emphatically.
6. In such expressions as "twice an hour," "once an age," a shilling an ounce , it has a distributive force, and is equivalent to each, every.
7. If; a word used by old English authors.
8. moment, split second, second, instant, wink, flash, jiff, jiffy, trice. moment, instant, point, jiffy lahza. mind, perception. moment.
9. moment. instant. breath. minute. sec. span. twinkling. wink.
10. an WEAK STRONG An is used instead of `a', the indefinite article, in front of words that begin with vowel sounds. see also: a. Netherlands Antilles (in Internet addresses). airman, Navy. Word History: The forms of the indefinite article are good examples of what can happen to a word when it becomes habitually pronounced without stress. An is in fact a weakened form of one; both an and one come from Old English ān "one." In early Middle English, besides representing the cardinal numeral "one," ān developed the special function of indefinite article, and in this role the word was ordinarily pronounced with very little or no stress. Sound changes that affected unstressed syllables elsewhere in the language affected it also. First, the vowel was shortened and eventually reduced to a schwa (ə). Second, the n was lost before consonants. This loss of n affected some other words as well; it explains why English has both my and mine, thy and thine. Originally these were doublets just like a and an, with mine and thine occurring only before vowels, as in Ben Jonson's famous line "Drink to me only with thine eyes." By the time of Modern English, though, my and thy had replaced mine and thine when used before nouns (that is, when not used predicatively, as in This book is mine), just as some varieties of Modern English use a even before vowels (a apple). And if; if. W1S1 used when the following word begins with a vowel sound a.

1. moment. augenblick.