قان

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Arabic

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Etymology 1

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From the root ق ي ن (q-y-n), or denominal verb of قَيْن (qayn, smith), an ur-Semitic noun.

Verb

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قَانَ (qāna) I (non-past يَقِينُ (yaqīnu), verbal noun قَيْن (qayn))

  1. to forge, to smith; to assemble, to arrange, to get together into order
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Etymology 2

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Noun

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قَان (qānm

  1. alternative form of خَان (ḵān, khan)
Declension
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Etymology 3

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Derived from the active participle of قَنَا (qanā, to reach out to, to acquire).

Noun

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قانٍ (qāninm (plural قَانِيَة (qāniya))

  1. appropriator, owner
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Etymology 4

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Apparently borrowed from Khorezmian Turkic, from Proto-Turkic *kiān (blood).

Noun

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قَان (qānm

  1. (obsolete, only genitive attribute of أَحْمَر (ʔaḥmar, red)) blood
    • 975–997, محمد بن أحمد الخوارزمي [muḥammad ibn ʕaḥmad al-ḵwārizmī], edited by Gerlof van Vloten, مفاتيح العلوم [mafātīḥ al-ʕulūm], Leiden: E. J. Brill, published 1895, pages 169 line 12–170 line 2:
      الَوْرْس يجلب من اليمن أحمر قانٍ يوجد على قشور شجر ينحت منها ويجمع وهو شبيه بالزعفران المسحوق
      Wars is imported from Yemen, blood-red, produces a tree-rind hewn out and collected and it is similar to brayed saffron.
      commented in Seidel, Ernst (1915) “Die Medizin im Kitâb Mafâtîḥ al ʿUlûm”, in Sitzungsberichte der Physikalisch-Medizinischen Sozietät zu Erlangen[1] (in German), volume 47, page 37 Anm. 89
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Etymology 5

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Unknown, probably an Old South Arabian borrowing, possibly related to قَنَا (qanā), قَنَى (qanā, to acquire, to obtain), or to قَنَاة (qanāh, spear).

Noun

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قَان (qānm (collective, singulative قَانَة f (qāna))

  1. (obsolete, Tihāma) a kind of hardwood tree from which bows are made
    • a. 869, الْجَاحِظ [al-jāḥiẓ], “باب ما يُجلب من البلدان من طرائف السلع والأمتعة والجواري والأحجار وغير ذلك [What one imports from strange countries in items, commodities, she-slaves, stones and else.]”, in التَبَصُّر بِٱلتِّجَارَة [at-tabaṣṣur bi-t-tijāra]‎[2]:
      ومن أرض العرب: الخيل العِراب والنَّعَام والنَّجائب والقانة والأَدَم.
      From the Arabian lands one gets: Pure-bred horses, ostrichs, female Arabian camels, the qāna, and tanned hides.
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Azerbaijani

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Noun

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قان (countable and uncountable, definite accusative قانی)

  1. Arabic spelling of qan (blood)

Chagatai

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Etymology

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From Proto-Turkic *kān (blood).

Noun

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قان (qan)

  1. blood

Descendants

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  • Uyghur: قان (qan) / қан (qan)
  • Uzbek: qon

Kazakh

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Alternative scripts
Arabic قان
Cyrillic қан
Latin qan

Noun

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قان (transliteration needed)

  1. Arabic spelling of қан (qan).

Khalaj

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Noun

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قان (qân, qâan) (definite accusative قانؽ, plural قانلار)

  1. Arabic spelling of qân, qâan (blood)

Declension

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Kipchak

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Etymology

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From Proto-Turkic *kān (blood).

Noun

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قان (kan)

  1. blood

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Descendants

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Kyrgyz

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Noun

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قان (qan)

  1. Arabic spelling of кан (kan).

Ottoman Turkish

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قان

Etymology

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Inherited from Proto-Turkic *kān (blood); cognate with Old Turkic 𐰴𐰣 (qan), Azerbaijani qan, Bashkir ҡан (qan), Chuvash юн (jun), Kazakh қан (qan), Kyrgyz кан (kan), Turkmen gan, Uyghur قان (qan⁩), Uzbek qon and Yakut хаан (qaan).

Noun

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قان (kan) (definite accusative قانی (kanı), plural قانلر (kanlar))

  1. blood, a vital bodily fluid flowing in the bodies of many types of animals
    Synonyms: خون (hun), دم (dem)
  2. (by extension) venesection, phlebotomy, the cutting open or exposing a vein
  3. (by extension) bloodshed, bloodbath, carnage, any slaughter on a large scale

Derived terms

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Descendants

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Persian

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Pronunciation

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Readings
Classical reading? qān
Dari reading? qān
Iranian reading? ğân
Tajik reading? qon

Noun

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قان (qân)

  1. Alternative form of غان (ğân, birch)

Uyghur

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Chagatai قان (qan), from Proto-Turkic *kān (blood).

Noun

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قان (qan) (plural قانلار (qanlar))

  1. blood