Noun: imán
Gender: m
Hyphenation: i‧mán
| Singular m | imán |
| Plural m | imanes |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like imán
seitán,
sampán,
soldán,
shamán,
pacharán,
chalcuán,
yuchán,
criovolcán,
pantalán,
electroimán,
zaguán,
dabigatrán,
pasapán,
parabán,
gamelán,
ganapán,
gavilán,
camanguián,
brahmán,
salfumán, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Inherited from Old Spanish aymant, apocopic form of aymante (“lodestone”), from Old French aïmant (“lodestone”), from Vulgar Latin *adimas, from Latin adamās (“very hard steel; adamant; diamond”), ultimately from Ancient Greek ἀδάμας (adámas), with the same meaning. Reinforced or reintroduced by modern French aimant (“magnet”). Cognate with English diamond. Doublet of diamante. See: Old Spanish Nouns '
aymant', Old Spanish Nouns '
aymant', Latin Nouns '
adamās', Ancient Greek Nouns '
ἀδάμας', French Nouns '
aimant', English Nouns '
diamond'.
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