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hand fan

hand fan noun: a hand-held device designed to be waved back and forth in order to induce airflow for the purpose of cooling the user.

hand fan: a hand-held device designed to be waved back and forth in order to induce airflow for the purpose...
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Noun

hand fan (plural hand fans)

  1. A hand-held device designed to be waved back and forth in order to induce airflow for the purpose of cooling the user.
    Synonyms:
    fan

hand fan meaning in Hindi, Bengali, Malayalam and Assamese

hand fan in Hindi

hand fan
बीजना bījnā

hand fan in Bengali

hand fan
বিচইন bicoin, বীজনী bijoni, পাখা pakha

hand fan in Malayalam

hand-held device
വിശറി viśaṟi

hand fan in Assamese

hand-held device
বিচনী bisoni
More languagesFewer languages
hand fan in Tagalog
pamaypay
hand fan in Malay
kipas tangan
hand fan in Indonesian
kipas tangan
hand fan in Thai
พัด pát
hand fan in Vietnamese
quạt

Synonyms of hand fan

Forms of hand fan

pluralhand fans

Questions about hand fan

What does hand fan mean?
Hand fan means a hand-held device designed to be waved back and forth in order to induce airflow for the purpose of cooling the user.
What is hand fan in Hindi?
Hand fan in Hindi is बीजना (bījnā). See Hand fan meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is hand fan?
Hand fan is a noun.
What is the plural of hand fan?
The plural of hand fan is hand fans.

Words near hand fan in the dictionary

  1. hand drills
  2. hand drum
  3. hand drums
  4. hand dryer
  5. hand dryers
  6. hand fan
  7. hand fans
  8. hand fruit
  9. hand fruits
  10. hand gallop
  11. hand gallops

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: hand fan (page history and authors); बीजना (Hindi) (page history and authors); পাখা (Bengali) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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