See also: فان

Arabic edit

Etymology 1 edit

From the root ق ي ن (q-y-n), or denominal verb of قَيْن (qayn, smith), an ur-Semitic noun.

Verb edit

قَانَ (qāna) I, non-past يَقِينُ‎ (yaqīnu)

  1. to forge, to smith; to assemble, to arrange, to get together into order
Conjugation edit

Etymology 2 edit

Noun edit

قَان (qānm

  1. alternative form of خَان (ḵān, khan)
Declension edit

Etymology 3 edit

Derived from the active participle of قَنَا (qanā, to reach out to, to acquire).

Noun edit

قانٍ (qāninm (plural قَانِيَة (qāniya))

  1. appropriator, owner
Declension edit

Etymology 4 edit

Apparently borrowed from Khorezmian Turkic, from Proto-Turkic *kiān (blood).

Noun edit

قَان (qānm

  1. (obsolete, only genitive attribute of أَحْمَر (ʔaḥmar, red)) blood
    • 975–997, محمد بن أحمد الخوارزمي [muḥammad ibn ʕaḥmad al-ḵwārizmī], edited by Gerlof van Vloten, مفاتيح العلوم [mafātīḥ al-ʕulūm], Leiden: E. J. Brill, published 1895, pages 169 line 12–170 line 2:
      الَوْرْس يجلب من اليمن أحمر قانٍ يوجد على قشور شجر ينحت منها ويجمع وهو شبيه بالزعفران المسحوق
      Wars is imported from Yemen, blood-red, produces a tree-rind hewn out and collected and it is similar to brayed saffron.
      commented in Seidel, Ernst (1915) “Die Medizin im Kitâb Mafâtîḥ al ʿUlûm”, in Sitzungsberichte der Physikalisch-Medizinischen Sozietät zu Erlangen[1] (in German), volume 47, page 37 Anm. 89
Declension edit

Etymology 5 edit

Unknown, probably an Old South Arabian borrowing, possibly related to قَنَا (qanā), قَنَى (qanā, to acquire, to obtain), or to قَنَاة (qanāh, spear).

Noun edit

قَان (qānm (collective, singulative قَانَة f (qāna))

  1. (obsolete, Tihāma) a kind of hardwood tree from which bows are made
    • a. 869, الْجَاحِظ [al-jāḥiẓ], “باب ما يُجلب من البلدان من طرائف السلع والأمتعة والجواري والأحجار وغير ذلك [What one imports from strange countries in items, commodities, she-slaves, stones and else.]”, in التَبَصُّر بِٱلتِّجَارَة [at-tabaṣṣur bi-t-tijāra]‎[2]:
      ومن أرض العرب: الخيل العِراب والنَّعَام والنَّجائب والقانة والأَدَم.
      From the Arabian lands one gets: Pure-bred horses, ostrichs, female Arabian camels, the qāna, and tanned hides.
Declension edit

Azerbaijani edit

Noun edit

قان (countable and uncountable, definite accusative قانی)

  1. Arabic spelling of qan (blood)

Chagatai edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Turkic *kiān (blood).

Noun edit

قان (qan)

  1. blood

Descendants edit

  • Uyghur: قان (qan) / қан (qan)
  • Uzbek: qon

Kazakh edit

Alternative scripts
Arabic قان
Cyrillic қан
Latin qan

Noun edit

قان (transliteration needed)

  1. Arabic spelling of қан (qan).

Khalaj edit

Noun edit

قان (qân, qâan) (definite accusative قانؽ, plural قانلار)

  1. Arabic spelling of qân, qâan (blood)

Declension edit

Kipchak edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Turkic *kiān (blood).

Noun edit

قان (kan)

  1. blood

Derived terms edit

Descendants edit

References edit

Kyrgyz edit

Noun edit

قان (qan)

  1. Arabic spelling of кан (kan).

Ottoman Turkish edit

 
قان

Etymology edit

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *kiān (blood); cognate with Old Turkic 𐰴𐰣 (qan), Azerbaijani qan, Bashkir ҡан (qan), Chuvash юн (jun), Kazakh қан (qan), Kyrgyz кан (kan), Turkmen gan, Uyghur قان (qan⁩), Uzbek qon and Yakut хаан (qaan).

Noun edit

قان (kan) (definite accusative قانی (kanı), plural قانلر (kanlar))

  1. blood, a vital bodily fluid flowing in the bodies of many types of animals
    Synonyms: خون (hun), دم (dem)
  2. (by extension) venesection, phlebotomy, the cutting open or exposing a vein
  3. (by extension) bloodshed, bloodbath, carnage, any slaughter on a large scale

Derived terms edit

Descendants edit

Further reading edit

Persian edit

Pronunciation edit

 

Readings
Classical reading? qān
Dari reading? qān
Iranian reading? ğân
Tajik reading? qon

Noun edit

قان (qân)

  1. Alternative form of غان (ğân, birch)

Uyghur edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

From Chagatai قان (qan), from Proto-Turkic *kiān (blood).

Noun edit

قان (qan) (plural قانلار (qanlar))

  1. blood