Kazakh

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Alternative scripts
Arabic جۋان
Cyrillic жуан
Latin juan
Yañalif çuan

Etymology

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From Proto-Turkic *yogan (thick).

Cognate with Old Turkic [script needed] (joγan, thick); Southern Altai јоон (ǰoon), Kyrgyz жоон (joon), Bashkir йыуан (yıwan),Uzbek yoʻgʻon, Azerbaijani yoğun, Turkish yoğun, Khakas чоон (çoon), Shor чоон, Western Yugur yoɣun/ yoɣïn, Tofa нёон, Yakut суон (suon, thick), etc.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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жуан (juan)

  1. thick
  2. sturdy

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