khan
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kʰɑːn/
Audio (US): (file) - Rhymes: -ɑːn
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- Rhymes: -ɑːn
- Rhymes: -ɒn
Etymology 1
Via late (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French chan, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Medieval Latin chanis, from Turkic *qan, contraction of *qaɣan.[1] Cognate with Old Turkic 𐰴𐰍𐰣 (qaɣan), Mongolian ᠬᠠᠭᠠᠨ (qaɣan, “lord, prince”) (Cyrillic: хаан (xaan)), a Turkic borrowing.
- Sense 1 (ruler in the Middle Ages) after Genghis Khan.
Noun
khan (plural khans)
- (historical) A ruler over various Turkish, Tatar and Mongol peoples in the Middle Ages.
- An Ottoman sultan.
- A noble or man of rank in various Muslim countries of Central Asia, including Afghanistan.
Derived terms
Translations
a ruler over various Turkic, Tatar and Mongol peoples in the Middle Ages
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an Ottoman sultan
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a noble man in various Muslim countries
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Etymology 2
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Persian خان (xân, “caravanserai”).
Noun
khan (plural khans)
- A caravanserai; a resting-place for a travelling caravan.
- 1923, Powys Mathers, translating The Thousand Nights and One Night:
- ‘Guess the name of that,’ she said, pointing to her delicate parts. The porter tried this name and that and ended by asking her to tell him and cease her slapping. ‘The khān of Abu-Mansur,’ she replied.
- 1958-1994, Hamilton Gibb & CF Beckingham, in The Travels of Ibn Battutah, Folio Society 2012, page 27:
- At each of these stations there is a hostelry which they call a khan, where travellers alight with their beasts, and outside each khan is a public watering-place and a shop at which the traveller may buy what he requires for himself and his beast.
- 1923, Powys Mathers, translating The Thousand Nights and One Night:
See also
References
- ^ The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., Clarendon Press, 1989.
Anagrams
Catalan
Noun
khan m (plural khans)
Dongxiang
Etymology
From Proto-Mongolic *gal, perhaps related to Proto-Tungusic *gụl-.
Compare Mongolian гал (gal), Evenki гулдай (guldaj, “to light, kindle”).
Pronunciation
Noun
khan
French
Noun
khan m (plural khans)
References
Italian
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Turkic.
Pronunciation
Noun
khan m (uncountable)
Derived terms
Portuguese
Noun
khan m (plural s)
- Alternative spelling of cã
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