kapan

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See also: Kapan, kåpan, and kāpan

Finnish

Noun

kapan

  1. genitive singular of kappa

Anagrams

Gagauz

Etymology

Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish قَاپَانْ (qapan), from Proto-Turkic *kap-gan. By surface analysis, kapa- +‎ -an. Compare Turkish kapan, Crimean Tatar qapqan. Doublet of kapkan.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kɑˈpɑn/
  • Hyphenation: ka‧pan

Noun

kapan (definite accusative kapanı, plural kapannar)

  1. jail
  2. trap
    Synonym: kapkan

Further reading

  • Mavrodi M. F., editor (2019), Gagauzça-rusça sözlük: klaslar 1-4, Komrat: Gagauziya M.V. Maruneviç adına Bilim-Aaraştırma merkezi, →ISBN, page 46
  • Kopuşçu M. İ. , Todorova S. A. , Kiräkova T.İ., editors (2019), Gagauzça-rusça sözlük: klaslar 5-12, Komrat: Gagauziya M.V. Maruneviç adına Bilim-Aaraştırma merkezi, →ISBN, page 91

Indonesian

Etymology 1

Reconstructed as apa +‎ ke- -an, from Malay kapan, from Javanese kapan (ꦏꦥꦤ꧀), from Old Javanese kapan.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ka.pan/
  • Hyphenation: ka‧pan
  • Rhymes: -apan, -pan, -an
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Pronoun

kapan

  1. (interrogative) when
    Kapan dia akan pergi?
    When will he go?
Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Malay kapan, from Arabic كَفَن (kafan).

Noun

kapan (plural kapan-kapan)

  1. Nonstandard form of kafan.

Further reading

Javanese

Romanization

kapan

  1. Romanization of ꦏꦥꦤ꧀

Malay

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Javanese ꦏꦥꦤ꧀ (kapan), from Old Javanese kapan.

Pronoun

kapan (Jawi spelling کاڤن)

  1. (archaic) when
    Synonym: bila
Descendants
  • > Indonesian: kapan (inherited)

Etymology 2

From Arabic كَفَن (kafan).

Noun

kapan (Jawi spelling کاڤن, plural kapan-kapan, informal 1st possessive kapanku, 2nd possessive kapanmu, 3rd possessive kapannya)

  1. shroud, white cloth to wrap the dead.
Descendants
  • > Indonesian: kapan (inherited)

Further reading

Old Javanese

Etymology

Affixed apa +‎ ka- -an.

Pronoun

kapan

  1. when

Descendants

Further reading

  • "kapan" in P.J. Zoetmulder with the collaboration of S.O. Robson, Old Javanese-English Dictionary. 's-Gravenhage: M. Nijhoff, 1982.

Turkish

Etymology 1

From Persian قَپان (qapân).

Noun

kapan (definite accusative kapanı, plural kapanlar)

  1. (historical) A public weighing machine of the Ottoman era, or the office where the machine was located.

Etymology 2

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish قپان (kapan, “trap”), itself from Proto-Turkic *kapgan (“trap”), a development of *kap- (“to snatch, take; to bite”), whence kapmak.

Noun

kapan (definite accusative kapanı, plural kapanlar)

  1. trap

References

  • Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kapan1”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
  • Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kapan2”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
  • Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN
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