قاچان

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Adverb

قاچان (qaçân)

  1. Arabic spelling of qaçân (“when”)

Old Anatolian Turkish

Adverb

قَاچَانْ (qaçan)

  1. Alternative form of خَاچَانْ (ḫaçan)

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology 1

From قاچـ (kaç-, “to flee, escape, run away”) +‎ ـان (-an).

Adjective

قاچان • (kaçan)

  1. fleeing, escaping, absconding, that flees, escapes, or absconds
Derived terms
Descendants
  • Turkish: kaçan

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Etymology 2

Adverb

قاچان • (kaçan)

  1. (early Ottoman) Alternative spelling of هاچان (haçan, “when, at what time”)

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Uyghur

Other scripts
Perso-Arabic قاچان
Latin ‍qachan‍
Cyrillic қачан

Etymology

From *qačan "when, at what time", from Proto-Turkic *ka- (“interrogative particle”).

Cognate with Old Turkic (qačan, “when”), Bashkir ҡасан (qasan), Kazakh қашан (qaşan), Kyrgyz качан (kacan), Uzbek qachon, Shor қачан, Yakut хаһан (qahan, “when”), etc.

Adverb

قاچان • (qachan)

  1. when, at what time
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