fanon

Meaning

1. (masculine) dewlap (pendulous skin under the neck of an ox, lizard, or other animal)
2. (masculine) wattle (wrinkled fold of skin hanging from the neck of a turkey or other bird)
3. (masculine) baleen plate; (in the plural) baleen (bony material that makes up the plates in the mouth of a baleen whale)
4. (masculine) feather, feathering (long hair on the lower legs of a horse)
5. (masculine) bracelet on the right arm
6. (masculine) fanon (vestment reserved for the Pope)
7. (masculine, plural-normally) fanon (part of a bishops mitre)
8. (broadly, masculine, plural-normally) tabs on a banner or pennant

Concepts

baleen

dewlap

whalebone

wattle

Synonyms

baleine

🐳

Fanon

fanons

Translations

giogaia

hinnulus

Barte

infule

barbas de baleia

barbas de ballena

çubuk

sakağı

Köte

fanone

topuk kılları

Fischbein

Wampe

μπαλένα

Pronounced as (IPA)

/fa.nɔ̃/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French: fanon

Inherited from Old French: fanon

Cognate with English: fane

In summary

Inherited from Middle French fanon, fannon, from Old French fanon, fanum, from Early Medieval Latin fanō (attested in the Reichenau Glossary), borrowed from Frankish *fano (“cloth”), from Proto-Germanic *fanô. Cognate with English fane and vane.