Meanings
Mohan1
- A male given name from Sanskrit used in India.
Mohan2
Mohan3
- A border town neighbouring Laos in Mengla County, Xishuangbanna prefecture, Yunnan, China.
At least 30 Uyghurs were apprehended at the town of Mohan on the border with Laos in Yunnan’s Mengla county in late September, and scores of others were detained around the province in recent weeks, a Uyghur merchant in the province told RFA’s Uyghur Service.
2013 October 3, Shohret Hoshur, Rachel Vandenbrink, “100 Uyghurs Rounded Up in Police Hunt in Yunnan”, in Shohret Hoshur, transl., Radio Free Asia, archived from the original on 30 Oct 20142 more examples
A Southeast Asia media delegation recently participated in the "China-Laos Railway Journey", at the invitation by the People's Government of Yunnan Province, to visit Kunming, Pu'er and Xishuangbanna, and learnt of the immigration and customs procedures at the transit station in Mohan, located at the China-Laos border.
2023 June 21, Bernama, “Stricter procedures entering China via railways from Southeast Asia”, in The Straits Times, archived from the original on 22 Jun 2023The study area was located in Mohan town, Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province, southwestern China (21°10′ − 21°26′ N, 101°27′ − 101°41′ E). The region experiences a tropical monsoon climate, with distinct dry (November to April) and wet (May to October) seasons.
2024 October 10, Qiang Lu, Zhengfeng An, Beibei Zhang, Xiaoqiang Lu, Xia Mao, Jiaqi Li, Scott X. Chang, Yan Liu, Xiangxiang Fu, “Optimizing tradeoff strategies of soil microbial community between metabolic efficiency and resource acquisition along a natural regeneration chronosequence”, in Science of The Total Environment, volume 946, →DOI, →ISSN, →LCCN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 25 Dec 2024
Origin
Mohan · proper noun
- IrishÓ Mocháin“descendant of Mochán”
- EnglishMohan
Anglicized form of Irish Ó Mocháin (“descendant of Mochán”), from a diminutive of moch (“early, timely”).
More words from Irish
Full word history & related roots →Mohan · proper noun
- khbᦢᦸᧈᦠᦱᧃ
- Mandarin磨憨
- EnglishMohan
From Mandarin 磨憨 (Móhān) or Lü ᦢᦸᧈᦠᦱᧃ (ḃoa¹ḣaan).
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Chinese Mandarin 磨憨
- 磨憨 (Móhān)town in China
Hindi मोहन, मोहन
- मोहन (mohan)epithet of Krishna
- मोहन (mohan)male given name
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Cite this entry
Mohan. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Mohan
“Mohan.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Mohan. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Mohan,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Mohan.
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