An is the indefinite article in English; see a and an.

An, AN, aN, or an may also refer to:

Culture and language
  • An (Chinese name)

  • An alternative romanisation for Ahn (Korean name)

  • An (mythology), a god in Sumerian mythology

  • An (goddess), a goddess in Sumerian mythology

  • AN ''Algemeen Nederlands'' (meaning "Common Dutch"), the official Dutch language, common to most people in the Netherlands and the Flemish community in Belgium

  • Aragonese language's ISO 639-1:2002 language code

  • Anguttara Nikaya, one of the five oldest books in Buddhist literature

  • An (Shinto), a small table or platform used during Shinto ceremonies


  • Mathematics and science
  • aN, the attonewton, an SI unit of force

  • An, a Dynkin diagram

  • AN, ammonium nitrate

  • Anorexia Nervosa, an eating disorder

  • acetonitrile


  • Organisations
  • AN (band), a Finnish black metal band

  • ''Alleanza Nazionale'', the Italian name for the National Alliance (Italy), a political party in Italy

  • Anime North, a Canadian anime convention

  • Ansett Australia's now defunct IATA airline designator

  • Apalachicola Northern Railroad's Association of American Railroads reporting mark

  • Avisa Nordland, a Norwegian newspaper

  • The design office prefix for Antonov, a Ukrainian engineering firm


  • Placename abbreviations or codes
  • Anderson County, Kansas state county code

  • Andorra's obsolete NATO country code

  • Angola's World Meteorological Organization country code

  • Application Note Application Note (in engineering) most often seen as A.N.

  • Netherlands Antilles' ISO country code


  • Other
  • AN thread, a type of fitting

  • a prefix used by by the U.S. military for electronic equipment named under the Joint Electronics Type Designation System

  • the romanization of the Japanese word 餡, meaning red bean paste


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    eo:An
    fr:AN
    ko:AN
    it:AN
    nl:An
    ja:AN
    no:AN
    pl:An
    pt:An (desambiguação)
    ksh:AN (Watt ėßß datt?)
    sl:AN
    fi:An
    sv:An
    vi:AN
    uk:АН