Shan

[ shahn, shan ]
/ ʃɑn, ʃæn /

noun, plural Shans, (especially collectively) Shan.

a group of Mongoloid tribes in the hills of Burma.
a language spoken in the Shan States and belonging to the Tai group of languages.

Example sentences from the Web for shan

British Dictionary definitions for shan

Shan
/ (ʃɑːn) /

noun

plural Shans or Shan a member of a Mongoloid people living in Myanmar, Thailand, and SW China
the language or group of dialects spoken by the Shan, belonging to the Sino-Tibetan family and closely related to Thai