roan

• (UK) enPR: rōn, IPA^(key): /ɹəʊn/

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• (US) enPR: rōn, IPA^(key): /ɹoʊn/
• Rhymes: -əʊn

From Middle French roan, probably from Spanish roano, from Old Spanish raudano, itself probably of Germanic origin (compare Gothic 𐍂𐌰𐌿𐌳𐌰𐌽 (raudan), accusative of 𐍂𐌰𐌿𐌸𐍃 (rauþs, “red”). Compare rowan.

roan (not comparable)

1. Especially of a horse, having a coat of a dark base color with individual white hairs mixed in
2. Made of the leather called roan.

   roan binding

roan (plural roans)

1. An animal such as a horse that has a coat of a dark base color with individual white hairs mixed in.
2. The color of such an animal.
3. A kind of leather used for slippers, bookbinding, etc., made from sheepskin, tanned with sumac and colored to imitate ungrained morocco.
   • 1882, Leo de Colange, The American Encyclopaedia of Commerce, Manufactures, Commercial Law, and Finance, volume 2:

     Roan, a kind of leather used for shoes, slippers, and common bookbinding; prepared from sheep skins by tanning with sumach.

• roan antelope
• strawberry roan

roan (plural roans)

1. Archaic form of rowan (“kind of tree”).

• roan duck (etymologically unrelated)

• Arno, Aron, NRAO, Nora, Oran, Rona, rona

• IPA^(key): /ˈroan/ [ˈro.ãn]
• Rhymes: -oan
• Syllabification: ro‧an

roan

1. inflection of roer:
   1. third-person plural present subjunctive
   2. third-person plural imperative