قاقان

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From قاقـ (kak-, “to tap, push”) +‎ ـان (-an).

Adjective

قاقان • (kakan)

1. tapping, pushing, that taps or pushes

Derived terms

• آغاج قاقان (agac kakan, “woodpecker”)

 

Further reading

• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قاقان”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 931
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قاقان”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1419