قزان

See also: قرآن and قرأن

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• قزغان (kazğan)

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *kaŕgan, perhaps equivalent to قازمق (qazmaq, “to dig”) +‎ ـغان (-ğan).

Noun

قزان • (qazān)

1. kettle

Descendants

• Turkish: kazan
• → Albanian: kazan
• → Arabic: قَزَان (qazān), قَازَان (qāzān)
• → Armenian: խազան (xazan), ղազան (ġazan), կազան (kazan), ղզղան (ġzġan)
• → Aromanian: cãzáne
• → Bulgarian: каза́н (kazán)
• → Greek: καζάνι (kazáni)
• → Macedonian: казан (kazan)
• → Romanian: cazàn
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: ка̀зан

  Latin script: kàzan

References

• Поленаковиќ, Харалампие (2007) “362. CǍZÁNE sb. f. pl. cǎzǎńi”, in Зузана Тополињска, Петар Атанасов, editors, Турските елементи во ароманскиот [Turskite elementi vo aromanskiot]‎^[1], put into Macedonian from the author’s Serbo-Croatian Turski elementi u aromunskom dijalektu (1939, unpublished) by Веселинка Лаброска, Скопје: Македонска академија на науките и уметностите [Makedonska akademija na naukite i umetnostite], →ISBN, page 101
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قزان”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1451

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Tatar

Noun

قزان • (transliteration needed) (Cyrillic spelling казан, Latin spelling qazan)

1. (Old Tatar) kettle

Proper noun

قزان • (transliteration needed) (Cyrillic spelling Казан, Latin spelling Qazan)

1. (Old Tatar) Kazan (the capital and largest city of the Republic of Tatarstan, Russia)

See also

• Kazan on Wikipedia.Wikipedia