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Arabic
Verb
כאן • (kāna) (non-past יכון (yakūnu))
- Judeo-Arabic spelling of كَانَ (kāna)
c. 10th century, Saadia Gaon, Tafsir, Genesis 1:3:ושא אללה אן יכון נור פכאן נור׃- wašāʔa llāhu ʔan yakūna nūrun fakāna nūrun.
- And God willed there to be light, and then there was light.
Hebrew
Etymology
From כְּ־ + אָן (“where”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
כָּאן • (kán)
- Here, at this place.
Usage notes
- The adjective use is essentially a special case of the adverb use; hence, the adjective does not change form to agree with its subject.
Adverb
כָּאן • (kán)
- Here, at this place.
Usage notes
- Unlike English, Hebrew draws an obligatory distinction between “ here” and “ here”. כאן is the former; לכאן (l'khán) is the latter.
Noun
כָּאן • (kán) ?
- Here, this place.
Derived terms