haçan

Azerbaijani

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Cyrillic		هاچان
Arabic		һачан

Etymology

From Old Anatolian Turkish قَاچَانْ (qaçan). Cognate with Turkmen haçan.

Pronunciation

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• IPA^(key): [ˈhɑt͡ʃɑn]

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Adverb

haçan

1. (interrogative) when?

   Siz haçan gəlmisiniz? ― When did you arrive?

Synonyms

• nə vaxt
• havaxt

See also

Azerbaijani interrogative pro-forms

• what: nə, (dialectal) nəmənə
• who: kim
• which: hansı
• which (in a numbered series): neçənci
• who (by occupation): nəçi
• who (by origin): haralı
• where (which place): hara, hayan, (colloquial) hanı, (dialectal) həncəri
• where (at which place): harada, hayanda
• whither (to which place): hara, haraya, hayana
• whence (from which place): haradan, hayandan
• when: nə vaxt, nə zaman, haçan, (colloquial) havaxt
• why: niyə, nə üçün, neyçün
• how: necə, nətər, nə təhər, (archaic) nə tövr, nə cür, (dialectal) həncəri
• how much: nə qədər
• how many: neçə

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish هاچان (haçan), from older قاچان (kaçan), from Old Anatolian Turkish قَاچَانْ (qaçan).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [hɑt͡ʃɑn]
• Hyphenation: ha‧çan

Adverb

haçan (dialectal)

1. (interrogative) when?

   Synonyms: ne vakit, ne zaman

2. now that, since

   Synonym: mademki

3. (used interjectionally) how quickly, so quickly, what a short time

   Synonym: ne çabuk

   haçan gidip geldin ― [it's amazing] how quickly you went [there] and came [back]

Turkmen

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *ka-. Cognate with Azerbaijani and Turkish haçan.

Adverb

haçan

1. (interrogative) when?