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holan

holan is the alternative form of hor lan.

Meaning of hor lan

Verb

hor lan (invariable)

  1. (Singapore, Singlish, invariable) To have unexpectedly lost one's way and gone off course; to get lost and end up in some faraway place.
    • Hor lan already bro.

Proper noun (1) capitalized: Holan

Holan (plural Holans)

  1. A surname.

Proper noun (2) capitalized: Holan

Holan

  1. (alternative) Alternative form of Helan.
    • Yin Hung-tu, (left) deputy head of Holan county, Kansu province, comes to visit Ching Yu-kun’s (right) new home. The latter has just come from Peking.1956 October, Ai-ching Tan, “Settlers 'Go West'”, in China Reconstructs, volume V, number 10, Peking: China Welfare Institute, →OCLC, page 15
    • The important experience accumulated by the Party organizations of (Weishui) production brigade in Kuyuan County, (Hsinchu) brigade in Holan County , and (Kulu) brigade in Haiyuan County in earnestly grasping revolution in education, establishing political evening schools and rural schools, raising...1971, Summary of World Broadcasts: The Far East. Weekly supplement 3, British Broadcasting Corporation Monitoring Service, →OCLC, page 17

Forms of holan

pluralHolans

Origin of holan

Two possible origins: * Borrowed from Czech Holan, Holaň, Holáň, all nicknames from holy (“naked, bare”). * Borrowed from Norwegian Holan, habitational surname from several minor places, ultimately from Old Norse hóll (“round hill, mound”).

From Mandarin 賀蘭 /贺兰 (Hèlán), Wade–Giles romanization: Ho⁴-lan².

Questions about holan

What does holan mean?
Holan means a surname.
What is holan the alternative form of?
Holan is the alternative form of hor lan.
What part of speech is holan?
Holan is a proper noun.

Words near holan in the dictionary

  1. Holaday
  2. Holadays
  3. Holahan
  4. Holahans
  5. holam
  6. holan
  7. holandric
  8. holandry
  9. holangiotic
  10. Holans
  11. holantosine

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Adapted from Wiktionary: holan (page history and authors); Holan (page history and authors); hor lan (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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