See also: Kapan, kåpan, and kāpan

Finnish edit

Noun edit

kapan

  1. genitive singular of kappa

Anagrams edit

Indonesian edit

Etymology 1 edit

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

Pronunciation edit

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

Pronoun edit

kapan

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

Etymology 2 edit

From Malay kapan, from Arabic كَفَن (kafan).

Noun edit

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

  1. Nonstandard form of kafan.

Further reading edit

Javanese edit

Romanization edit

kapan

  1. Romanization of ꦏꦥꦤ꧀

Malay edit

Pronunciation edit

Etymology 1 edit

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

Pronoun edit

kapan (Jawi spelling کاڤن)

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

Etymology 2 edit

From Arabic كَفَن (kafan).

Noun edit

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 edit

Further reading edit

Old Javanese edit

Etymology edit

Affixed apa +‎ ka- -an.

Pronoun edit

kapan

  1. when

Descendants edit

Further reading edit

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

Turkish edit

Etymology 1 edit

From Persian قَپان (qapân).

Noun edit

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 edit

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 edit

kapan (definite accusative kapanı, plural kapanlar)

  1. trap

References edit

  • 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