kan

Translingual

Symbol

kan

1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Kannada.

English

Etymology 1

Noun

kan (plural kans)

1. Archaic form of khan.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Japanese 貫.

Noun

kan (plural kan)

1. A Japanese unit of weight, approximately 3.75 kg or 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 […]

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Cantonese 斤 (gan¹).

Noun

kan (plural kans)

1. (Hong Kong) A catty, legally defined as 0.60478982 kilograms.

See also

Anagrams

• NAK, NKA, nak, nka

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch kan, singular of kunnen, from Middle Dutch cunnen, from Old Dutch cunnan, from Proto-Germanic *kunnaną, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵneh₃-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kan/

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Verb

kan (present kan, past kon)

1. can

Alak

Noun

kan

1. (Harak) woman

Alternative forms

• akan (Alak)

Further reading

• Theraphan L. Thongkum, The place of Lawi, Harak and Tariang within Bahnaric (1997), in The Mon-Khmer Studies Journal, volume 27

Awar

Noun

kan

1. tree

Further reading

• Catherine Levy, Language Research in Papua New Guinea: A Case Study of Awar (2005)

Bambara

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):

Noun

kan

1. (anatomy) neck

References

• 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.

Basque

Noun

kan

1. inessive singular of ka

Bikol Central

Alternative forms

• kang

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkan/,

Preposition

kan (Basahan spelling ᜃᜈ᜔)

1. of—objective marker for nouns or phrases other than personal names.

   Harong kan panadero.

   House of the baker.

   Aki kan magurang.

   Child of the parent/s

   Magurang kan aki.

   Parent/s of the child

See also

Breton

Noun

kan m

1. song

Catalan

Alternative forms

• khan (superseded)

Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin chanis, from Turkic.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencian)

Noun

kan m (plural kans)

1. khan

Derived terms

• gran kan
• kanat

Further reading

• “kan” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Chuukese

Determiner

kan

1. (possessive subject marker) these

Related terms

• ekkan

Cimbrian

Alternative forms

• ka, kor

Etymology

From a variant of Middle High German gēn, gein, from gegen with elision of intervocalic -g-. Cognate with German gen; Alemannic German and Bavarian gan. Doublet of ghéghen.

Preposition

kan

1. in, at

   Ich hèrbighe kan 'Toballe, kor Baan, ka Sléeghe.

   I live in Mezzaselva, Roana, Asiago.

2. to, towards

   Ich ghéa inn ka Sléeghe, aus kan Bèarn, au kan Triin, abe kan Ròome.

   I go east to Asiago, out west to Verona, up north to Trentino, and down south to Rome.

References

Further reading

• “kan” in Martalar, Umberto Martello, Bellotto, Alfonso (1974) Dizionario della lingua Cimbra dei Sette Communi vicentini, 1st edition, Roana, Italy: Instituto di Cultura Cimbra A. Dal Pozzo

Dakota

Alternative forms

• kaŋ

Adjective

kan

1. something that is very old and powerful
2. something incomprehensible but wonderful
3. something that creates or sustains life^{[cite 1]}

See also

• wakaŋ

References

Citations

• Colette Hyman (2012) Dakota women's work : creativity, culture, and exile

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): , ,
• Rhymes: -a
• Rhymes: -and

Verb

kan

1. present of kunne

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɑn/

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• Hyphenation: kan
• Rhymes: -ɑn

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch canne. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Noun

kan f (plural kannen, diminutive kannetje n)

1. jug
2. pot (for tea, coffee, etc.)
3. can (cylindrical vessel)

Derived terms

Descendants

• Afrikaans: kan
• Negerhollands: kanintśi (from the diminutive)
  • → Virgin Islands Creole: kaninsti (dated)
• → Japanese: 缶
• → Mahican: kánnisch
• → Papiamentu: kanika (from the diminutive)
• → Sranan Tongo: kan, kaniki, kannetje (from the diminutive)
  • → Lokono: kâna, kána, kâniki (from the diminutive)

Etymology 2

From Old French chan, from Medieval Latin canus, caanus, of Turkic origin, from Old Turkic xān (“Central Asian khan”), probably ultimately of non-Turkic (Central Asian) origin.

Noun

kan m (plural kannen, diminutive kannetje n)

1. khan (Turkish or Mongol ruler)

Derived terms

• kanaat

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

kan

1. inflection of kunnen:
   1. first/second/third-person singular present indicative
   2. imperative
   3. (archaic) plural imperative

Synonyms

• (present singular): kunt (2 sg.)- more formal

References

French

Pronunciation

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Noun

kan m (plural kans)

1. Alternative form of khan (“khan”)

Conjunction

kan

1. (text messaging) Abbreviation of quand.

Adverb

kan

1. (text messaging) Abbreviation of quand.

Further reading

• “kan” in Émile Littré, Dictionnaire de la langue française, 1872–1877.
• “kan”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.

Gagauz

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *kiān (“blood”).

Noun

kan (definite accusative , plural )

1. blood

German

Verb

kan

1. Obsolete spelling of kann

Gun

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kã̀/

Verb

kàn

1. to inquire

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Compare Fon kán, Adja eka, Ewe ɛka, Saxwe Gbe okàn

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kã̀/

Noun

kàn (plural kàn lɛ́ or kàn lẹ́)

1. rope, cord

Derived terms

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kã́/

Verb

kán

1. to write

Derived terms

Haitian Creole

Etymology

From French quand.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kã/

Adverb

kan

1. when

Synonyms

• kilè

Hungarian

Etymology

Of unknown origin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):

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• Rhymes: -ɒn

Noun

kan (plural kanok)

1. male pig

   Antonyms: koca, emse

2. male boar (wild boar)
3. male (of dogs or other domestic animals not larger than a pig)

   Antonym: szuka

4. (colloquial) hunk, stud (a man with a sexual life more active than usual)

Declension

Derived terms

References

Further reading

• kan in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
• List of names for domestic animals (in Hungarian)

Indonesian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kan/
• Rhymes: -an

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Etymology 1

Shortened form

Noun

kan (first-person possessive kanku, second-person possessive kanmu, third-person possessive kannya)

1. Aphetic form of langkan

Adverb

kan

1. Aphetic form of bukan (“see; right”)

   Kan, sudah ku bilang jangan bermain korek api. Kini kau rasakan akibatnya. ― See, I already told you before not to play with the matches. Now you receive the consequences.

   Ini punyamu, kan? ― This is yours, right?.

2. Aphetic form of akan (“will”)

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Dutch kan (“jug; pot (for tea, coffee, etc.); can (cylindrical vessel)”), from Middle Dutch canne.

Noun

kan (first-person possessive kanku, second-person possessive kanmu, third-person possessive kannya)

1. jug, pot

   Synonyms: morong, teko

Further reading

• “kan” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

Isnag

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kaən, compare Malay makan.

Verb

kan

1. to eat

Japanese

Romanization

kan

1. Rōmaji transcription of かん
2. Rōmaji transcription of カン

Karaim

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *kiān.

Noun

kan

1. blood

References

• N. A. Baskakov, S.M. Šapšala, editor (1973), “kan”, in Karaimsko-Russko-Polʹskij Slovarʹ [Karaim-Russian-Polish Dictionary], Moscow: Moskva, →ISBN

Kera

Noun

kan

1. water

References

• Takács, Gábor (2007) Etymological Dictionary of Egyptian, volume 3, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 201, →ISBN:

  we should carefully distinguish the following Ch. roots from AA *m-ˀ "water" :

  (1) Ch. *h-m "water" : Kwang kàām , Kera kan

Kholosi

Etymology

From Sanskrit कर्ण (karṇá).

Noun

kan ?

1. (anatomy) ear

References

• Eric Anonby, Hassan Mohebi Bahmani (2014) “Shipwrecked and Landlocked: Kholosi, an Indo-Aryan Language in South-west Iran”, in Cahier de Studia Iranica xx‎, pages 13-36

Lacandon

Etymology

From Proto-Mayan *kaahn.

Noun

kan

1. snake

Derived terms

References

• 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)‎ (in Spanish), Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., page 93

Malay

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kan/
• Rhymes: -kan, -an

Etymology 1

Clipping of bukan.

Adverb

kan (Jawi spelling کن)

1. isn't it?

   Cantik kan baju ni?

   Isn't this dress beautiful?

Etymology 2

Clipping of akan.

Adverb

kan (Jawi spelling کن)

1. will (future)

Further reading

• “kan” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

Mandarin

Romanization

kan

1. Nonstandard spelling of kān.
2. Nonstandard spelling of kǎn.
3. Nonstandard spelling of kàn.

Usage notes

• Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.

Maranao

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kaən, compare Malay makan.

Verb

kan

1. to eat

Marshallese

Pronunciation

• (phonetic) IPA^(key):
• (phonemic) IPA^(key): /kænʲ/
• Bender phonemes: {kan}

Verb

kan

1. (transitive) to eat

References

Marshallese–English Online Dictionary

Mauritian Creole

Etymology

From French quand.

Adverb

kan

1. when

Middle English

Noun

kan

1. Alternative form of canne

Musi

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkaːn/

Adverb

kan

1. no
2. not

Usage notes

Kan is used to negate nouns and adverbs. To negate verbs or adjectives, use daq.

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From Old Norse kann.

Verb

kan

1. present of kunne
2. can; may; be able to

   kan ikke ― cannot, can't

Etymology 2

Noun

kan m (definite singular kanen, indefinite plural kaner, definite plural kanene)

1. form removed with the spelling reform of 2005; superseded by khan

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• kainn, kainnj (Trøndelag eye dialect spelling)

Etymology 1

From Old Norse kann.

Alternative forms

• (non-standard since 1938) kann

Verb

kan

1. present tense of kunna and kunne

Etymology 2

Noun

kan m (definite singular kanen, indefinite plural kanar, definite plural kanane)

1. (pre-2005) alternative form of khan

Nupe

Etymology

From clipping of kámi

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ká.ŋ̀/

Noun

káǹ

1. farm

   Synonym: latí

References

Romani

Etymology

Inherited from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀓𑀡𑁆𑀡 (kaṇṇa), from Sanskrit कर्ण (karṇa, “ear”). Cognate with Hindi कान (kān) and Punjabi ਕੰਨ (kann, “ear”).

Noun

kan m (nominative plural kana)

1. ear

References

Seimat

Noun

kan

1. water; fresh water

References

• Beata Wozna, Theresa Wilson, Seimat Grammar Essentials (2005)

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kâːn/
• Rhymes: -âːn

Noun

kȃn m (Cyrillic spelling ка̑н)

1. khan

Declension

Somali

Determiner

kan

1. this (masculine)

Spanish

Noun

kan m (plural kanes)

1. khan (ruler)

Further reading

• “kan”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kanː/

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Verb

kan

1. present of kunna

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English cunt.

Noun

kan

1. (vulgar) cunt (female genitalia)
2. (vulgar) cunt (term of abuse)

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish قان (kan, “blood”), from Proto-Turkic *kiān (“blood”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkan/

• Audio

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Noun

kan (definite accusative kanı, plural kanlar)

1. blood
2. (dialectal) kitchen

Declension

Related terms

Ute

1. house

Wutunhua

Etymology

From Mandarin 看.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):

Verb

kan

1. to look

References

• Erika Sandman (2016) A Grammar of Wutun‎, University of Helsinki (PhD), →ISBN

Yami

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kaən, compare Malay makan.

Verb

kan

1. to eat

Yoruba

Etymology 1

Derived from oókan.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ꜜkã̄/

Adjective

kan

1. one

Derived terms

• ẹ̀ẹ̀kan

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kã̀/

Verb

kàn

1. to touch, to concern

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kã́/

Verb

kán

1. to break

   Synonym: fọ́

Yucatec Maya

Alternative forms

• can (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):

Etymology 1

From Proto-Mayan *koohng-.

Numeral

kan

1. four

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Verb

kan (transitive)

1. to learn

Conjugation

Related terms

• kaanbal

References

• 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
• Yoshida, Shigeto (2009) Diccionario de la conjugación de verbos en el maya yucateco actual (in Spanish), Sendai: Tohoku University, page 31: “KAN”