Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

θ	thin	ð	this	ʃ	she	ʒ	measure
tʃ	church	dʒ	judge	ŋ	sing	j	yes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

-s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
-ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
-ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

shan

/ʃɑn/ adjective, noun, proper noun

Forms Shans shand

adjective (Geordie, Edinburgh) unfair, harsh “Here man! that's pure shan that like”
adjective (Scotland, Hartlepool) poor, low-quality
noun A member of a people living primarily in the Shan State of Myanmar (also known as Burma), and in adjacent areas of China, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam, with about 6 million people.
proper noun The language of this people, of the Kra-Dai language family.
proper noun A state of Myanmar.
adjective Of or pertaining to the Shan people or the Shan language.
proper noun The Shan Pass: a mountain pass in Shanzhou, Henan, through which the Yellow River flows into the North China Plain.

Synonyms

Origin obscure. Perhaps from shand (“worthless”). Alternatively, perhaps of Romani origin.

From Burmese ရှမ်း (hram:), from Thai สยาม (sà-yǎam). Doublet of Siam.

From the pinyin romanization of Mandarin 陝／陕 (shǎn).

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 — from the Wiktionary entry “shan”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details