kan
English[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Noun[edit]
kan (plural kans)
- Archaic form of khan.
Etymology 2[edit]
Noun[edit]
kan (plural kan)
- A Japanese unit of weight, approximately 8.267 lb.
- 2000, Hideo Yamashita, Healthy Culture and Unhealthy Culture:
- After having subtracted the bad and uncollectable debt above, the net property was around 32000 kan of silver […]
Anagrams[edit]
Afrikaans[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Dutch kan, singular of kunnen, from Middle Dutch cunnen, from Old Dutch cunnan, from Proto-Germanic *kunnaną, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵneh₃-.
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
kan (present kan, past kon)
Alak[edit]
Noun[edit]
kan
- (Harak) woman
Alternative forms[edit]
- akan (Alak)
Further reading[edit]
- Theraphan L. Thongkum, The place of Lawi, Harak and Tariang within Bahnaric (1997), in The Mon-Khmer Studies Journal, volume 27
Awar[edit]
Noun[edit]
kan
Further reading[edit]
- Catherine Levy, Language Research in Papua New Guinea: A Case Study of Awar (2005)
Bambara[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
kan
References[edit]
- 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.
Basque[edit]
Noun[edit]
kan
Bikol Central[edit]
Preposition[edit]
kan
- Of—objective marker for nouns or phrases other than personal names.
- harong kan panadero
- house of the baker
- agom kan lalaki
- wife of the man
Breton[edit]
Noun[edit]
kan m
Chuukese[edit]
Determiner[edit]
kan
- (possessive subject marker) these
Related terms[edit]
Danish[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
kan
Dutch[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From Middle Dutch canne. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.
Noun[edit]
kan f (plural kannen, diminutive kannetje n)
Derived terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
Etymology 2[edit]
From Old French chan, from Medieval Latin canus, caanus, of Turkic origin, from Old Turkic xān (xān, “Central Asian khan”), probably ultimately of non-Turkic (Central Asian) origin.[1]
Noun[edit]
kan m (plural kannen, diminutive kannetje n)
- khan (Turkish or Mongol ruler)
Derived terms[edit]
Etymology 3[edit]
See the etymology of the main entry.
Verb[edit]
kan
- first-, second- and third-person singular present indicative of kunnen
- imperative of kunnen
- (archaic) plural imperative of kunnen
Synonyms[edit]
- (present singular): kunt (2 sg.)- more formal
French[edit]
Noun[edit]
kan m (plural kans)
References[edit]
- ^ “khan” in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
- ^ [1].
Gagauz[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Turkic *kiān (“blood”).
Noun[edit]
kan (definite accusative {{{1}}}, plural {{{2}}})
German[edit]
Verb[edit]
kan
- Obsolete spelling of kann
Haitian Creole[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Adverb[edit]
kan
Synonyms[edit]
Hungarian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Of unknown origin.[1]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
kan (plural kanok)
Declension[edit]
Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony) | ||
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singular | plural | |
nominative | kan | kanok |
accusative | kant | kanokat |
dative | kannak | kanoknak |
instrumental | kannal | kanokkal |
causal-final | kanért | kanokért |
translative | kanná | kanokká |
terminative | kanig | kanokig |
essive-formal | kanként | kanokként |
essive-modal | — | — |
inessive | kanban | kanokban |
superessive | kanon | kanokon |
adessive | kannál | kanoknál |
illative | kanba | kanokba |
sublative | kanra | kanokra |
allative | kanhoz | kanokhoz |
elative | kanból | kanokból |
delative | kanról | kanokról |
ablative | kantól | kanoktól |
non-attributive possessive - singular |
kané | kanoké |
non-attributive possessive - plural |
kanéi | kanokéi |
Possessive forms of kan | ||
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possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
1st person sing. | kanom | kanjaim |
2nd person sing. | kanod | kanjaid |
3rd person sing. | kanja | kanjai |
1st person plural | kanunk | kanjaink |
2nd person plural | kanotok | kanjaitok |
3rd person plural | kanjuk | kanjaik |
Antonyms[edit]
- (dog): szuka
Derived terms[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ Zaicz, Gábor. Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (’Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN
Japanese[edit]
Romanization[edit]
kan
Kera[edit]
Noun[edit]
kan
References[edit]
- Takács, Gábor (2007) Etymological Dictionary of Egyptian, volume 3, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 201:
- […] we should carefully distinguish the following Ch. roots from AA *m-ˀ "water" [GT]:
- (1) Ch. *h-m "water" [GT]: […] Kwang kàām [Jng.], Kera kan [Ebert] […]
Kholosi[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
kan ?
References[edit]
- Eric Anonby; Hassan Mohebi Bahmani (2014) , “Shipwrecked and Landlocked: Kholosi, an Indo-Aryan Language in South-west Iran”, in Cahier de Studia Iranica xx[2], pages 13-36
Lacandon[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Mayan *kaahn.
Noun[edit]
kan
Derived terms[edit]
References[edit]
- Baer, Phillip; Baer, Mary; Chan Kꞌin, Manuel; Chan Kꞌin, Antonio (2018) Diccionaro maya lacandón (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 51)[3] (in Spanish), Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., page 93
Malay[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Shortened form of bukan
Pronunciation[edit]
Adverb[edit]
kan
Mandarin[edit]
Romanization[edit]
kan
Usage notes[edit]
- English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.
Mauritian Creole[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Adverb[edit]
kan
Middle English[edit]
Noun[edit]
kan
Norwegian Bokmål[edit]
Verb[edit]
kan
- present of kunne
- can; may; be able to
Norwegian Nynorsk[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Verb[edit]
kan
Etymology 2[edit]
Noun[edit]
kan m (definite singular kanen, indefinite plural kanar, definite plural kanane)
- form removed with the spelling reform of 2005; superseded by khan
Romani[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Sanskrit कर्ण (kárṇa, “ear”). Cognate with Hindi कान (kān) and Punjabi ਕੰਨ (kann, “ear”).
Noun[edit]
kan m (plural kana)
Seimat[edit]
Noun[edit]
kan
- water; fresh water
References[edit]
- Beata Wozna, Theresa Wilson, Seimat Grammar Essentials (2005)
Serbo-Croatian[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
kȃn m (Cyrillic spelling ка̑н)
Declension[edit]
Somali[edit]
Determiner[edit]
kan
- this (masculine)
Swedish[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
kan
Tok Pisin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
kan
Turkish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Ottoman Turkish قان (kan, “blood”), from Proto-Turkic *kiān (“blood”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
kan (definite accusative kanı, plural kanlar)
Declension[edit]
Inflection | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Nominative | kan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Definite accusative | kanı | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Singular | Plural | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nominative | kan | kanlar | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Definite accusative | kanı | kanları | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dative | kana | kanlara | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Locative | kanda | kanlarda | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Ablative | kandan | kanlardan | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Genitive | kanın | kanların | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Related terms[edit]
Yami[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Compare Malay makan (“to eat”).
Verb[edit]
kan
- to eat
Yoruba[edit]
10 | ||
1 | 2 → | |
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Cardinal: ọ̀kan Counting: oókan Adjectival: kan Ordinal: kìíní Adverbial: ẹ̀ẹ̀kan Distributive: ọ̀kọ̀ọ̀kan Collective: ọ̀kọ̀ọ̀kan |
Etymology[edit]
Derived from oókan.
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
kan
Derived terms[edit]
Yucatec Maya[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- can (obsolete)
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Mayan *koohng-.
Pronunciation[edit]
Numeral[edit]
kan
References[edit]
- Beltrán de Santa Rosa María, Pedro (1746) Arte de el idioma maya reducido a succintas reglas, y semilexicon yucateco (in Spanish), Mexico: Por la Biuda de D. Joseph Bernardo de Hogal, page 152: “Can. Quatro. 4.”
- Montgomery, John (2004) Maya-English, English-Maya (Yucatec) Dictionary & Phrasebook, New York: Hippocrene Books, Inc., →ISBN, pages 60, 203
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