Meanings
every sense kept, sourced — never inventedlonglexitron
for a long time; extensivelylexitron
long (having considerable duration in space or time)wiktionary
long (of a specified number of units in extent or duration)wiktionary
old (far advanced in age or time)wiktionary
long (for or throughout a considerable extent of space or time)wiktionary
naanwiktionary
In the readings
real sentences, spoken by real voicesพ่อของฉันมองขึ้นไปนาน ๆ
My father stood looking up for a long time.
ไม่เคยรู้ว่าจะขับไปอีกนานแค่ไหน
I've never known how much longer I'll keep driving.
เราอยู่ด้วยกันมานาน
We've lived together for a long time.
เธอขายมานานกว่ายี่สิบปีแล้ว
She's been selling there for more than twenty years.
แต่พอทำไปนาน ๆ มันกลายเป็นนิสัย
But after doing it for a long time, it became a habit.
Built from
From Proto-Tai *naːnᴬ (“slow”). Cognate with Northern Thai ᨶᩣ᩠ᨶ, Lao ນານ (nān), Lü ᦓᦱᧃ (naan), Tai Dam ꪙꪱꪙ, Shan ၼၢၼ်း (náan), Tai Nüa ᥘᥣᥢᥰ (läan), Phake ꩫ︀ꩫ︀် (nan), Ahom 𑜃𑜃𑜫 (nan), Tày nàn, Zhuang nanz, Zuojiang Zhuang nanz. Learned borrowing from Hindi नान (nān), from Classical Persian نان (nān, “bread”).