Kazan

See also: kazan, kazán, kazań, Kazań, Kazán, and Kazaň

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Russian Каза́нь (Kazánʹ).

Proper noun

Kazan

1. The capital and largest city of the Republic of Tatarstan, Russia.
2. (historical) the Khanate of Kazan, a Tatar Turkic state that occupied the territory of former Volga Bulgaria between 1438 and 1552.

Derived terms

• Kazanian

Translations

city in Russia

• Abkhaz: Ҟазан (Qʼazan)
• Amharic: ካዛን (kazan)
• Arabic: قَازَان m (qāzān), قَزَان m (qazān)
• Armenian: Կազան (hy) (Kazan)
• Azerbaijani: Kazan (az)
• Bashkir: Ҡазан (Qazan)
• Belarusian: Каза́нь f (Kazánʹ)
• Bengali: কাজান (kajan)
• Bulgarian: Каза́н (Kazán)
• Burmese: ကာဇန် (kajan)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 喀山 (zh) (Kāshān)

• Chuvash: Хусан (Hus̬an)
• Crimean Tatar: Qazan
• Czech: Kazaň (cs) f
• Danish: Kazan
• Dutch: Kazan
• Esperanto: Kazano
• Finnish: Kazan (fi)
• French: Kazan (fr) m
• Galician: Kazán
• Georgian: ყაზანი (q̇azani)
• German: Kasan (de) n
• Greek: Καζάν (el) (Kazán)
• Guaraní: Kasã
• Hebrew: קאזאן (kazan)
• Hindi: कज़ान (kazān)
• Hungarian: Kazany (hu)
• Italian: Kazan'
• Japanese: カザン (Kazan)
• Kazakh: Қазан (kk) (Qazan)
• Komi-Permyak: Козань (Kozań)
• Korean: 카잔 (Kajan)
• Kumyk: Къазан (Qazan)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: کازان (kazan), قازان (ckb) (qazan)

  Northern Kurdish: Kazan

• Kyrgyz: Казан (Kazan)
• Lak: Къазан (Q:azan)
• Latin: Casanum, Kazanum
• Latvian: Kazaņa
• Lithuanian: Kazanė
• Macedonian: Казањ m (Kazanj)
• Malayalam: കസാൻ (kasāṉ)
• Manchu: ᡴᠠᠰᠠᠨ (kasan)
• Marathi: कझान (kajhān)
• Mari:

  Eastern Mari: Озаҥ (Ozaŋ)

• Mongolian: Казань (Kazanʹ)
• Ottoman Turkish: قازان (Kazan)
• Pashto: کازان (kāzān)
• Persian: قازان (qâzân), کازان (kâzân)
• Polish: Kazań (pl) m
• Portuguese: Cazã
• Romanian: Kazan
• Russian: Каза́нь (ru) f (Kazánʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian: Казањ, Казан, Kazanj (sh), Kazan
• Sicilian: Kazan'
• Slovak: Kazaň
• Sorbian:

  Upper Sorbian: Kazań

• Spanish: Kazán (es) m
• Swedish: Kazan
• Tajik: Қазон (Qazon)
• Tamil: கசான் (kacāṉ)
• Tatar: Казан (Qazan), Qazan, قازان, قزان
• Thai: คาซาน (kaa-saan)
• Turkish: Kazan (tr)
• Udmurt: Кузон (Kuzon)
• Ukrainian: Каза́нь f (Kazánʹ)
• Urdu: قازان (qāzān)
• Uyghur: قازان (qazan)
• Uzbek: Qozon
• Veps: Kazan'
• Vietnamese: Kazan
• Welsh: Kazan’
• Written Oirat: ᡍᠠᠴᠠᠨ (xazan)
• Yakut: Казан (Kazan)

Etymology 2

Various origins:

• Borrowed from Hebrew חַזָּן (khazán, “Jewish cantor”), an occupational surname.
• Borrowed from Turkish Kazan, a metonymic occupational surname from kazan (“kettle, boiler, cauldron”).
• Borrowed from Greek Καζάν (Kazán), a metonymic occupational surname that derives from the same Turkish word.

Proper noun

Kazan (plural Kazans)

1. A surname.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Kazan is the 39052^nd most common surname in the United States, belonging to 564 individuals. Kazan is most common among White (91.31%) individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Kazan”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 2, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 285.