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Finnish
Noun
kapan
- genitive singular of kappa
Anagrams
Indonesian
Etymology 1
Reconstructed as apa + ke- -an, from Malay kapan, from Javanese kapan (ꦏꦥꦤ꧀), from Old Javanese kapan.
Pronunciation
Pronoun
kapan
- (interrogative) when
Kapan dia akan pergi?- When will he go?
Derived terms
Etymology 2
From Malay kapan, from Arabic كَفَن (kafan).
Noun
kapan (first-person possessive kapanku, second-person possessive kapanmu, third-person possessive kapannya)
- Nonstandard form of kafan.
Further reading
Javanese
Romanization
kapan
- Romanization of ꦏꦥꦤ꧀
Malay
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Javanese ꦏꦥꦤ꧀ (kapan), from Old Javanese kapan.
Pronoun
kapan (Jawi spelling کاڤن)
- (archaic) when
- Synonym: bila
Descendants
Etymology 2
From Arabic كَفَن (kafan).
Noun
kapan (Jawi spelling کاڤن, plural kapan-kapan, informal 1st possessive kapanku, 2nd possessive kapanmu, 3rd possessive kapannya)
- shroud, white cloth to wrap the dead.
Descendants
Further reading
Old Javanese
Etymology
Affixed apa + ka- -an.
Pronoun
kapan
- 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)
- (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)
- 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