خان

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Arabic[edit]

خَان
خَان

Etymology 1[edit]

 خان (مبنى) on Arabic Wikipedia

From Persian خان (xân, caravanserai).

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

خَان (ḵānm (plural خَانَات (ḵānāt))

  1. hostel, caravanserai, inn
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Etymology 2[edit]

From the root خ و ن (ḵ-w-n).

Verb[edit]

خَانَ (ḵāna) I, non-past يَخُونُ‎ (yaḵūnu)

  1. to be disloyal, to be faithless, to be false, to be treacherous, to be perfidious; to act disloyally, to act treacherously, to act perfidiously
  2. to betray
    1. to cheat, to dupe, to hoodwink, to deceive, to impose upon, to fool, to deceive, to mislead
    2. to forsake, to desert, to let down
    3. to fail, to break (a promise, contract)
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Etymology 3[edit]

From earlier قَان (qān), derived from Old Turkic 𐰴𐰣 (qan) a contraction of 𐰴𐰍𐰣 (qaɣan); doublet of خَاقَان (ḵāqān) an earlier form, from Middle Persian hʾkʾn' (xāgān), from Old Turkic 𐰴𐰍𐰣 (qaɣan); ultimately of unknown origin, suggested as a borrowing.

Noun[edit]

خَان (ḵānm (plural خَوَانِين (ḵawānīn))

  1. khan, a ruler in Northern Asia
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Azerbaijani[edit]

Noun[edit]

خان

  1. Arabic spelling of xan

Bulgar[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Turkic *kiān.

Noun[edit]

خان (hān)

  1. blood

References[edit]

  • Tekin, Talat (1988) Volga Bulgar kitabeleri ve Volga Bulgarcası[2], Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurumu Basımevi, →ISBN, page 16

Ottoman Turkish[edit]

خان
خان

Etymology 1[edit]

From Persian خان (xân, caravanserai).

Noun[edit]

خان (han) (plural خانلار (hanlar))

  1. inn, caravanserai
Descendants[edit]
  • Turkish: han
  • Albanian: han
  • Aromanian: háne
  • Bulgarian: хан (han)
  • Greek: χάνι (cháni)
  • Hungarian: hán
  • Romanian: han
  • Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic script: ха̑н
    Latin script: hȃn

Etymology 2[edit]

Compare Old Turkic 𐰴𐰍𐰣 (qaɣan), considered to be of non-Turkic Central Asian origin.

Noun[edit]

خان (han)

  1. khan
Descendants[edit]

References[edit]

  • Поленаковиќ, Харалампие (2007), “817.”, in Зузана Тополињска, Петар Атанасов, editors, Турските елементи во ароманскиот, put into Macedonian from the author’s Serbo-Croatian Turski elementi u aromunskom dijalektu (1939, unpublished) by Веселинка Лаброска, Скопје: Македонска академија на науките и уметностите, →ISBN, page 134
  • Zenker, Julius Theodor (1876), “خان”, in Türkisch-arabisch-persisches Handwörterbuch, volume 2, Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, page 402

Persian[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Dari خان
Iranian Persian
Tajik хон
 

Readings
Classical reading? xān
Dari reading? xān
Iranian reading? xân
Tajik reading? xon

Etymology 1[edit]

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Borrowed from Turkic; first attested in Islamic lands in Karakhanid coinage from the 900s.[1] See Old Turkic 𐰴𐰍𐰣 (qǧn¹ /⁠qaɣan⁠/) for more.

Noun[edit]

خان (xân) (plural خان‌ها (xân-hâ) or خانات (xânât) or خوانین (xavânin))

  1. Sir, Mister; a title attached after the name of a man, marking politeness and/or social distance.
    داریوش خانdâryuš xânMister Daryoosh
  2. (historical) khan (nomadic ruler); by extension:
    چنگیز خانčengiz xânGenghis Khan
    1. A Safavid provincial governor ranking between بیگلربیگی (beyglarbeygi, governor-general) and سلطان (soltân, deputy governor).
    2. In the Mughal and Qajar empires, an extremely common title used for any nobleman and courtier, even if not of nomadic background.
    3. The Ottoman emperor.
Usage notes[edit]
  • As a suffix of politeness, آقا (âqâ) is more formal and خان (xân) is more informal. Nowadays, خان (xân) is sometimes used to express sarcasm, since آقا (âqâ) is more common in actually formal or polite contexts. Otherwise, it can be felt to be dated.
Descendants[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Boyle, J. A. (2012), “K̲h̲ān”, in Encyclopaedia of Islam, Volume II[1]

Etymology 2[edit]

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From Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (hʾn' /⁠xān⁠/, house).

Noun[edit]

خان (xân) (plural خان‌ها (xân-hâ))

  1. caravanserai
  2. rifling (system of grooves in a rifled gun barrel or cannon)
  3. (archaic) Alternative form of خانه (xâne, house).
Descendants[edit]

References[edit]

  • MacKenzie, D. N. (1971), “xān”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 93

Punjabi[edit]

Noun[edit]

خان (xānm (Gurmukhi spelling ਖ਼ਾਨ)

  1. khan

Proper noun[edit]

خان (xānm (Gurmukhi spelling ਖ਼ਾਨ)

  1. a surname, Khan

Further reading[edit]

  • Iqbal, Salah ud-Din (2002), “خان”, in vaḍḍī panjābī lughat‎ (in Punjabi), Lahore: ʻAzīz Pablisharz

Sindhi[edit]

Noun[edit]

خانُ (transliteration neededm

  1. khan

Further reading[edit]

  • Parmanand, Mewaram (1910), “خانُ”, in Sindhi-English Dictionary (in English), Hyderabad, Sindh: The Sind Juvenile Co-operative Society
  • خان”, in Sindhi-English Dictionary (in English), University of Chicago: Center for Language Engineering, Pakistan, 1866-1938

Urdu[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Classical Persian خان (xān).

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

خان (xānm (formal plural خانان (xānān) or خَوانِین (xavānīn), Hindi spelling ख़ान)

  1. khan

Derived terms[edit]

Proper noun[edit]

خان (xān? (Hindi spelling ख़ान)

  1. a surname, Khan

Uyghur[edit]

Noun[edit]

خان (xan) (plural خانلار (xanlar))

  1. khan