kapan

See also: Kapan, kåpan, and kāpan

Finnish

Noun

kapan

1. genitive singular of kappa

Anagrams

• pakan

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

Pronoun

kapan

1. (interrogative) when

   Kapan dia akan pergi?

   When will he go?

Derived terms

• kapan-kapan

 

Etymology 2

From Malay kapan, from Arabic كَفَن (kafan).

Noun

kapan (first-person possessive kapanku, second-person possessive kapanmu, third-person possessive kapannya)

1. Nonstandard form of kafan.

Further reading

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

Javanese

Romanization

kapan

1. Romanization of ꦏꦥꦤ꧀

Malay

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -an

Etymology 1

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

Pronoun

kapan (Jawi spelling کاڤن)

1. (archaic) when

   Synonym: bila

Descendants

• Indonesian: kapan

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

Further reading

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

Old Javanese

Etymology

Affixed apa +‎ ka- -an.

Pronoun

kapan

1. when

Descendants

• Javanese: ꦏꦥꦤ꧀ (kapan)
  • → Malay: kapan
    • Indonesian: kapan

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