khagan

English

Alternative forms

• kagan
• kaghan

Etymology

Ultimately from Old Turkic 𐰴𐰍𐰣 (qaɣan).

Noun

khagan (plural khagans)

1. A khan of khans, a ruler of a khaganate; (the holder of) an imperial rank used among certain Turkic and Mongolian peoples, equal in status to an emperor.
   • 1988, Christina Pribićević-Zorić, translating Milorad Pavić, Dictionary of the Khazars, Vintage 1989, p. 69:

     As early as the year 740 A.D., one of the Khazar kaghans had turned to Constantinople for a missionary versed in Christian law.

   • 2007, Michael Chabon, Gentlemen of the Road (Sceptre 2008), page 52:

     "A kagan is the father, the mother and the lover of all his people. Nobody would lift a hand against him," said Hanukkah.

Derived terms

• khaganate

Translations

title of imperial rank

• Arabic: خَاقَان (ḵāqān)
• Armenian: խաքան (hy) (xakʻan)
• Bulgarian: каган (kagan), хаган (hagan), хакан (bg) (hakan), кехан (kehan)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 可汗 (zh) (kèhán)

• Czech: kagan m
• Dutch: grootkan
• French: khagan (fr), grand khan
• German: Khagan (de)
• Hindi: ख़ाक़ान m (xāqān)
• Japanese: 可汗 (かかん, kakan)
• Mongolian: хаан (mn) (xaan), хаган (xagan)
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• Old Turkic: 𐰴𐰍𐰣 (qaɣan)
• Ottoman Turkish: خاقان (hâkan)
• Persian: خاقان (fa) (xāqān)
• Polish: kagan (pl)
• Portuguese: khagan m
• Russian: каган (ru) m (kagan)
• Spanish: jaghan, gran jan
• Tibetan: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: kağan (tr), hakan (tr)
• Urdu: خاقان m (xāqān)
• Uyghur: خاقان (xaqan)
• Vietnamese: khả hãn (可汗)

Anagrams

• kangha, khanga

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Portuguese

Noun

khagan m (plural s)

1. khagan (title of imperial rank used by some Turkic and Mongolian peoples)