See also: kałan

English

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Etymology

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From Russian кала́н (kalán).

Noun

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kalan (plural kalans)

  1. (archaic) The sea otter.

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Azerbaijani

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Etymology

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From Persian کلان (kalân).

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  • IPA(key): [cɑˈɫɑn]
  • Hyphenation: ka‧lan
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Determiner

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kalan

  1. (Baku, Balakan) plenty, more than enough; lots of
    Synonym: çox
    • 2010 March 2, Musavat.com[3]:
      Neft Fondunda hələ kalan pulumuz var.
      We still have plenty of money in the Oil Fund.

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kalan

  1. (colloquial) rich, wealthy, monied
    Synonyms: varlı, pullu
  2. (Lankaran) dull, stupid
    Synonyms: key, küt, kütbeyin, tupoy

Further reading

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  • kalan” in Obastan.com.

Bambara

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Etymology 1

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Noun

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kalan

  1. study
  2. reading

Verb

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kalan

  1. to study
  2. to read

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Etymology 2

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Verb

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kalan

  1. to be warm

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Finnish

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Noun

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kalan

  1. genitive singular of kala

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Khoekhoe

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kalan

  1. color

Northern Kurdish

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Etymology

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Cognate with synonymous Central Kurdish کالان (kalan), کێلان (kêlan), Zazaki kalanî, Hawrami [script needed] (kêlane).

Ačaṙyan derives from Armenian կալան (kalan).[1][2] But according to Schwartz, from Old Iranian *kārta-dāna- (literally knife-place).[3]

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kalan ?[4][5]

  1. sheath, scabbard
    • 1857, Stepan, an Armenian employee of the American Bible Society (translator), The Gospels in Kurdish in Armenian characters, John 18:11, Constantinople, page 383:
      Շուրա խօ տիսա լը քալան տէյնը.
      Šura xō tisa lə kʻalan tēynə.
      Put up thy sword into the sheath

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  1. ^ The template Template:R:kmr:Adjarian does not use the parameter(s):
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    Adjarian, H. (1909–1911) “Recueil de mots kurdes en dialecte de Novo-Bayazet [Compendium of Kurdish Words in the Nor Bayazet Dialect]”, in Mémoires de la Société de Linguistique de Paris (in French), volume XVI, page 358a
  2. ^ Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1973) “կալ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume II, Yerevan: University Press, page 485a
  3. ^ Chyet, Michael L. (2003) “kalan”, in Kurdish–English Dictionary[1], with selected etymologies by Martin Schwartz, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, page 295
  4. ^ Kurdojev, K. K. (1960) “kalan”, in Kurdsko-russkij slovarʹ [Kurdish–Russian Dictionary], Moscow: Gosudarstvennoje izdatelʹstvo inostrannyx i nacionalʹnyx slovarej, page 418b
  5. ^ Orbeli, I. A. (2002) “kalan”, in Курдско-русский словарь [Kurdish–Russian Dictionary] (Избранные труды в двух томах; II.2)‎[2] (in Russian), edited by Ž. S. Musaeljan and I. I. Cukerman from the author's manuscript written during his 1911–1912 Moks expedition, Yerevan: Academy Press, →ISBN, page 99a

Tagalog

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Ultimately from Malay keran.

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Noun

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kalán (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜎᜈ᜔)

  1. stove
    Synonyms: lutuan, pugon, estupa

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Further reading

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  • kalan”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

Tetum

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Etymology

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From *kalam, akin to Ngaju alem.

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kalan

  1. night

Turkish

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Etymology

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From kal +‎ -an.

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  • IPA(key): [kʰäˈɫän]
  • Hyphenation: ka‧lan
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Adjective

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kalan

  1. (present participle of kalmak) remaining, staying

Noun

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kalan

  1. remainder, rest
  2. (arithmetic) difference, result of substraction.
  3. (arithmetic) remainder, value left after division.