Joan

参见：joan 和 Jóan

英语

其他形式

• Jo、Ione、Jone、Ioane、Joane (obs.)

词源

Joanna 的绰号或截断形式，源自拉丁语 Joanna，源自通用希腊语 Ἰωάννα (Iōánna)，源自希伯来语 יוֹחָנָה (Yôḥānāh, 字面意思是“上帝是仁慈的”)，יְהוֹחָנָן (Yəhōḥānān) 的阴性化形式。关于占位符的用法，请参见 John、Jack。

Ivana, Jana, Jane, Janice, Janis, Jean, Jeanne, Jen, Joanna, Joanne, Johanna, Juana, Shavonne, Sian, Siobhan, Shane, Shaun, Shauna, and Sheena的同源对似词。

发音

• (通用美式) 国际音标^(帮助)：/d͡ʒoʊn/
• (标准英音) 国际音标^(帮助)：/d͡ʒəʊn/
• 韵部：-əʊn

专有名词

Joan

1. 源自法语的女性人名，John 的阴性形
   • 1979, Margaret Atwood, Lady Oracle, p. 336:

     Maybe my mother didn't name me after Joan Crawford after all, I thought; she just told me that to cover up. She named me after Joan of Arc, didn't she know what happened to women like that?

用法说明

Joan在中世纪是 John 的常见阴性形，17世纪被 Jane 取代，但到20世纪前半又流行起来。

派生词汇

• Joanie、Joany

名词

Joan (复数 Joans)

1. (口语，弃用或古旧) 任何女性的“占位符”或惯例名称，特别是年轻的下层妇女
   • 1598, William Shakespeare, Loues Labors Lost, 1st Quarto, Act III, Scene i:

     Ber. O and I forsoth in loue, I that haue been loues whip?...
     Well, I will loue, write, sigh, pray, shue, gr一,
     Some men must loue my Ladie, and some Ione.

   • 1606, Thomas Heywood, If You Knouu Not Me, You Know No Bodie:

     Joan’s as good as this French lady.

   • 1611, John Davies, "Vpon Englishe Prouerbs", Scourge of Folly, §386:

     ‘Ioan in the darke is as good as my lady:’
     Nay, perhapps better, such ladies there may bee.

   • 1623, William Shakespeare, The Life and Death of King Iohn, Act I, Scene i:

     Bast. A foot of Honor better then I was,
     But many a many foot of Land the worse.
     Well, now can I make any Ioane a Lady,
     Good den Sir Richard, Godamercy fellow,
     And if his name be George, Ile call him Peter;
     For new made honor doth forget mens names...

   • 1931, Arthur Melville Clark, Thomas Heywood, p. 12:

     ...when Henslowe notes Heywood's next play he has a little more respect for him; for, although the total was again but five pounds, three pounds on February 10, 1598/9 and the rest two days later, the dramatist on both occasions is Mr. Heywood. The only surviving fragment of the piece, ‘Jonne as good as my ladey’, may be a song in Γυναικεῖον with the burden 'What care I how faire she bee...

   • 2014, Antonia Senior, Treason's Daughter, p. 169:

     A wife. But what wife and when? Pretty, yes, but godly and modest. He remembers something Taffy said once: ‘A homely Joan is as good as a lady when the lights are out.’ Aye, Taf, he thinks, but best to marry one whose face you can worship. An image of Lucy Tompkins pops unbidden into his mind.

2. (时尚，弃用或古旧) 一种在18世纪中叶流行于女性的贴身帽子
   • 1756, Connoisseur, No. 134, p. 810:

     A grocer's wife attractd our eyes by a new-fashioned cap called a Joan.

用法说明

尽管是作为普通名词使用，这个词仍然被视为一个名字、字首需大写。在16和17世纪，常带有“外貌平平但对性较为开放”的含义。在18、19世纪，此名字往往带有质朴的意味。

近义词

• Jill、Jane

同类词汇

• Jack、John

派生词汇

• Joan's as good as my lady in the dark

参考资料

• “Joan, n.”, OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 2022

异序词

• ajon

加泰罗尼亚语

词源

继承自拉丁语 Iohannes，源自古希腊语 Ἰωάννης (Iōánnēs)，源自希伯来语 יוחנן (Yôḥānān, “耶和华是仁慈的”)。

发音

• 国际音标^(帮助)：(Central) [ʒuˈan]
• 国际音标^(帮助)：(Balearic) [ʒoˈan]
• 国际音标^(帮助)：(瓦伦西亚语) [d͡ʒoˈan]

专有名词

Joan m

1. 男性人名，等价于英语John
2. (圣经) 约翰
3. (圣经) 约翰福音

丹麦语

专有名词

Joan

1. 源自英语的女性人名 从英语借入，流行于1950年代和60年代

曼岛语

专有名词

Joan f

1. 女性人名

辅音变化

曼岛语辅音变化
原形	弱化	鼻音化
Joan	Yoan	N'yoan
注：其中一些形式可能是假设的。表中的词形不一定都有使用。

中古英语

专有名词

Joan

1. John的另一种写法

奥克语

词源

继承自拉丁语 Iohannes，源自古希腊语 Ἰωάννης (Iōánnēs)，源自希伯来语 יוחנן (Yôḥānān, “耶和华是仁慈的”)。

发音

• 国际音标^(帮助)：/d͡ʒuˈan/, /ˈd͡ʒwan/

专有名词

Joan

1. 男性人名，等价于英语John

约拉语

专有名词

Joan

1. 男性人名，Jone的变体
   • 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY:

     Sank Joan is oor brover.

     圣约翰是我们的兄弟。

参考资料

• Jacob Poole (1867), William Barnes, 编, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ISBN 978-1436729291, 页28