Wiktionary

kan

See also: Kan, Kan., kān, kǎn, kàn, kán, k'an, kʼän, kañ, kaň, kań, káň, káⁿ, káŋ, kän, kän-, and -kan

TranslingualEdit

SymbolEdit

kan

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Kannada.

EnglishEdit

Etymology 1Edit

NounEdit

kan (plural kans)

  1. Archaic form of khan.

Etymology 2Edit

Borrowed from Japanese 貫.

NounEdit

kan (plural kan)

  1. A Japanese unit of weight, approximately 3.75 kg or 8.267 lb.
    • 2000, Hideo Yamashita, Healthy Culture and Unhealthy Culture:
      After having subtracted the bad and uncollectable debt above, the net property was around 32000 kan of silver […]

AnagramsEdit

AfrikaansEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Dutch kan, singular of kunnen, from Middle Dutch cunnen, from Old Dutch cunnan, from Proto-Germanic *kunnaną, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵneh₃-.

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /kan/
  • Audio(file)

VerbEdit

kan (present kan, past kon)

  1. can

AlakEdit

NounEdit

kan

  1. (Harak) woman

Alternative formsEdit

Further readingEdit

AwarEdit

NounEdit

kan

  1. tree

Further readingEdit

  • Catherine Levy, Language Research in Papua New Guinea: A Case Study of Awar (2005)

BambaraEdit

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

kan

  1. (anatomy) neck

ReferencesEdit

BasqueEdit

NounEdit

kan

  1. inessive singular of ka

Bikol CentralEdit

Alternative formsEdit

PronunciationEdit

PrepositionEdit

kan

  1. of—objective marker for nouns or phrases other than personal names.
    Harong kan panadero.
    House of the baker.
    Agom kan lalaki.
    Spouse of the man

See alsoEdit

BretonEdit

NounEdit

kan m

  1. song

CatalanEdit

Alternative formsEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Medieval Latin chanis, from Turkic.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

kan m (plural kans)

  1. khan

Derived termsEdit

Further readingEdit

ChuukeseEdit

DeterminerEdit

kan

  1. (possessive subject marker) these

Related termsEdit

CimbrianEdit

Alternative formsEdit

EtymologyEdit

From a variant of Middle High German gēn, gein, from gegen with elision of intervocalic -g-. Cognate with German gen; Alemannic German and Bavarian gan. Doublet of ghéghen.[1]

PrepositionEdit

kan

  1. in, at
    Ich hèrbighe kan 'Toballe, kor Baan, ka Sléeghe.
    I live in Mezzaselva, [a hamlet of] Roana, [a town in] Asiago.
  2. to, towards
    Ich ghéa inn ka Sléeghe, aus kan Bèarn, au kan Triin, abe kan Ròome.
    I go east to Asiago, out west to Verona, up north to Trentino, and down south to Rome.

ReferencesEdit

  1. ^ “gen” in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, 16 vols., Leipzig 1854–1961.

Further readingEdit

  • “kan” in Martalar, Umberto Martello; Bellotto, Alfonso (1974) Dizionario della lingua Cimbra dei Sette Communi vicentini, 1st edition, Roana, Italy: Instituto di Cultura Cimbra A. Dal Pozzo

DanishEdit

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): [ˈkʰanˀ], [ˈkʰan], [ˈkʰa]
  • Rhymes: -a
  • Rhymes: -and

VerbEdit

kan

  1. present of kunne

DutchEdit

PronunciationEdit

Etymology 1Edit

From Middle Dutch canne. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

NounEdit

kan f (plural kannen, diminutive kannetje n)

  1. jug
  2. pot (for tea, coffee, etc.)
  3. can (cylindrical vessel)
Derived termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
  • Afrikaans: kan
  • Negerhollands: kanintśi (from the diminutive)
    • → Virgin Islands Creole: kaninsti (dated)
  • → Japanese: 缶
  • → Mahican: kánnisch
  • → Papiamentu: kanika (from the diminutive)
  • → Sranan Tongo: kan, kaniki, kannetje (from the diminutive)

Etymology 2Edit

From Old French chan, from Medieval Latin canus, caanus, of Turkic origin, from Old Turkic xān (“Central Asian khan”), probably ultimately of non-Turkic (Central Asian) origin.[1]

NounEdit

kan m (plural kannen, diminutive kannetje n)

  1. khan (Turkish or Mongol ruler)
Derived termsEdit

Etymology 3Edit

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

VerbEdit

kan

  1. first-, second- and third-person singular present indicative of kunnen
  2. imperative of kunnen
  3. (archaic) plural imperative of kunnen
SynonymsEdit
  • (present singular): kunt (2 sg.)- more formal

ReferencesEdit

  1. ^ “khan”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.

FrenchEdit

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

kan m (plural kans)

  1. khan

ConjunctionEdit

kan

  1. (text messaging) Abbreviation of quand.

AdverbEdit

kan

  1. (text messaging) Abbreviation of quand.

Further readingEdit

GagauzEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-Turkic *kiān (“blood”).

NounEdit

kan (definite accusative [[{{{1}}}#Gagauz|{{{1}}}]], plural [[{{{2}}}#Gagauz|{{{2}}}]])

  1. blood

GermanEdit

VerbEdit

kan

  1. Obsolete spelling of kann

GunEdit

Etymology 1Edit

PronunciationEdit

VerbEdit

kàn

  1. to inquire
Derived termsEdit

Etymology 2Edit

Compare Fon kán, Adja eka, Ewe ɛka, Saxwe Gbe okàn

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

kàn (plural kàn lɛ́ or kàn lẹ́)

  1. rope, cord
Derived termsEdit

Etymology 3Edit

PronunciationEdit

VerbEdit

kán

  1. to write

Haitian CreoleEdit

EtymologyEdit

From French quand.

AdverbEdit

kan

  1. when

SynonymsEdit

HungarianEdit

EtymologyEdit

Of unknown origin.[1]

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

kan (plural kanok)

  1. male pig
    Antonyms: koca, emse
  2. male boar (wild boar)
  3. male (of dogs or other domestic animals not larger than a pig)
    Antonym: szuka
  4. (colloquial) hunk, stud (a man with a sexual life more active than usual)

DeclensionEdit

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative kan kanok
accusative kant kanokat
dative kannak kanoknak
instrumental kannal kanokkal
causal-final kanért kanokért
translative kanná kanokká
terminative kanig kanokig
essive-formal kanként kanokként
essive-modal — —
inessive kanban kanokban
superessive kanon kanokon
adessive kannál kanoknál
illative kanba kanokba
sublative kanra kanokra
allative kanhoz kanokhoz
elative kanból kanokból
delative kanról kanokról
ablative kantól kanoktól
non-attributive
possessive - singular 		kané kanoké
non-attributive
possessive - plural 		kanéi kanokéi
Possessive forms of kan
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. kanom kanjaim
2nd person sing. kanod kanjaid
3rd person sing. kanja kanjai
1st person plural kanunk kanjaink
2nd person plural kanotok kanjaitok
3rd person plural kanjuk kanjaik

Derived termsEdit

Compound words

ReferencesEdit

  1. ^ kan in Zaicz, Gábor (ed.). Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (‘Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN.  (See also its 2nd edition.)

Further readingEdit

IndonesianEdit

EtymologyEdit

Shortened from kan.

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /kan/
  • Hyphenation: bukan
  • Rhymes: -an

AdverbEdit

kan

  1. see; right
    Kan, sudah ku bilang jangan bermain korek api, kini kau rasakan akibatnya. ― See, I already told you before to not playing with the matches, now you receive the consequences.
    Ini punyamu, kan? ― This is yours, right?.

Further readingEdit

IsnagEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kaən, compare Malay makan.

VerbEdit

kan

  1. to eat

JapaneseEdit

RomanizationEdit

kan

  1. Rōmaji transcription of かん
  2. Rōmaji transcription of カン

KeraEdit

NounEdit

kan

  1. water

ReferencesEdit

  • Takács, Gábor (2007) Etymological Dictionary of Egyptian, volume 3, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 201, →ISBN:
    […] we should carefully distinguish the following Ch. roots from AA *m-ˀ "water" [GT]:
    (1) Ch. *h-m "water" [GT]: […] Kwang kàām [Jng.], Kera kan [Ebert] […]

KholosiEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Sanskrit कर्ण (karṇá).

NounEdit

kan ?

  1. (anatomy) ear

ReferencesEdit

  • Eric Anonby; Hassan Mohebi Bahmani (2014), “Shipwrecked and Landlocked: Kholosi, an Indo-Aryan Language in South-west Iran”, in Cahier de Studia Iranica xx‎[2], pages 13-36

LacandonEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-Mayan *kaahn.

NounEdit

kan

  1. snake

Derived termsEdit

ReferencesEdit

  • Baer, Phillip; Baer, Mary; Chan Kꞌin, Manuel; Chan Kꞌin, Antonio (2018) Diccionaro maya lacandón (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 51)‎[3] (in Spanish), Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., page 93

MalayEdit

EtymologyEdit

Shortened form of bukan

PronunciationEdit

AdverbEdit

kan

  1. isn't it?
    Cantik kan baju ni?
    Isn't this dress beautiful?

MandarinEdit

RomanizationEdit

kan

  1. Nonstandard spelling of kān.
  2. Nonstandard spelling of kǎn.
  3. Nonstandard spelling of kàn.

Usage notesEdit

  • English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

MaranaoEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kaən, compare Malay makan.

VerbEdit

kan

  1. to eat

MarshalleseEdit

PronunciationEdit

VerbEdit

kan

  1. (transitive) to eat

ReferencesEdit

Marshallese–English Online Dictionary

Mauritian CreoleEdit

EtymologyEdit

From French quand.

AdverbEdit

kan

  1. when

Middle EnglishEdit

NounEdit

kan

  1. Alternative form of canne

MusiEdit

PronunciationEdit

AdverbEdit

kan

  1. no
  2. not

Usage notesEdit

Kan is used to negate nouns and adverbs. To negate verbs or adjectives, use daq.

Norwegian BokmålEdit

Etymology 1Edit

VerbEdit

kan

  1. present of kunne
  2. can; may; be able to
    kan ikke ― cannot, can't

Etymology 2Edit

NounEdit

kan m (definite singular kanen, indefinite plural kaner, definite plural kanene)

  1. form removed with the spelling reform of 2005; superseded by khan

Norwegian NynorskEdit

Etymology 1Edit

From Old Norse kann.

Alternative formsEdit

VerbEdit

kan

  1. present tense of kunna and kunne

Etymology 2Edit

NounEdit

kan m (definite singular kanen, indefinite plural kanar, definite plural kanane)

  1. (pre-2005) alternative form of khan

NupeEdit

 
Káǹ

EtymologyEdit

From clipping of kámi[1]

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

káǹ

  1. farm
    Synonym: latí

ReferencesEdit

  1. ^ Isaac George (March 1970), “Nupe Tonology”, in Studies in African Linguistics

RomaniEdit

EtymologyEdit

Inherited from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀓𑀡𑁆𑀡 (kaṇṇa),[1] from Sanskrit कर्ण (karṇa, “ear”).[1][2] Cognate with Hindi कान (kān) and Punjabi ਕੰਨ (kann, “ear”).

NounEdit

kan m (nominative plural kana)

  1. ear[1][2][3][4]

ReferencesEdit

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Boretzky, Norbert; Igla, Birgit (1994), “kan”, in Wörterbuch Romani-Deutsch-Englisch für den südosteuropäischen Raum : mit einer Grammatik der Dialektvarianten [Romani-German-English dictionary for the Southern European region] (in German), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 134a
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Yaron Matras (2002), “Historical and linguistic origins”, in Romani: A Linguistic Introduction‎[1], Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 41
  3. ^ Marcel Courthiade (2009), “o kan, -es- m. -a, -en-”, in Melinda Rézműves, editor, Morri angluni rromane ćhibǎqi evroputni lavustik = Első rromani nyelvű európai szótáram : cigány, magyar, angol, francia, spanyol, német, ukrán, román, horvát, szlovák, görög [My First European-Romani Dictionary: Romani, Hungarian, English, French, Spanish, German, Ukrainian, Romanian, Croatian, Slovak, Greek] (in Hungarian; English), Budapest: Fővárosi Onkormányzat Cigány Ház--Romano Kher, →ISBN, pages 185b-186a
  4. ^ Yūsuke Sumi (2018), “kan, ~a”, in ニューエクスプレスプラス　ロマ（ジプシー）語 [New Express Plus Romani (Gypsy)] (in Japanese), Tokyo: Hakusuisha, published 2021, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 150

SeimatEdit

NounEdit

kan

  1. water; fresh water

ReferencesEdit

  • Beata Wozna, Theresa Wilson, Seimat Grammar Essentials (2005)

Serbo-CroatianEdit

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

kȃn m (Cyrillic spelling ка̑н)

  1. khan

DeclensionEdit

Declension of kan
singular plural
nominative kan kánovi
genitive kana kanova
dative kanu kanovima
accusative kana kanove
vocative kane kanovi
locative kanu kanovima
instrumental kanom kanovima

SomaliEdit

DeterminerEdit

kan

  1. this (masculine)

SpanishEdit

NounEdit

kan m (plural kanes)

  1. khan (ruler)

Further readingEdit

SwedishEdit

PronunciationEdit

VerbEdit

kan

  1. present of kunna

Tok PisinEdit

EtymologyEdit

From English cunt.

NounEdit

kan

  1. (vulgar) cunt (female genitalia)
  2. (vulgar) cunt (term of abuse)

TurkishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Ottoman Turkish قان‎ (kan, “blood”), from Proto-Turkic *kiān (“blood”).

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

kan (definite accusative kanı, plural kanlar)

  1. blood
  2. (dialectal) kitchen

DeclensionEdit

Inflection
Nominative kan
Definite accusative kanı
Singular Plural
Nominative kan kanlar
Definite accusative kanı kanları
Dative kana kanlara
Locative kanda kanlarda
Ablative kandan kanlardan
Genitive kanın kanların
Possessive forms
Nominative
Singular Plural
1st singular kanım kanlarım
2nd singular kanın kanların
3rd singular kanı kanları
1st plural kanımız kanlarımız
2nd plural kanınız kanlarınız
3rd plural kanları kanları
Definite accusative
Singular Plural
1st singular kanımı kanlarımı
2nd singular kanını kanlarını
3rd singular kanını kanlarını
1st plural kanımızı kanlarımızı
2nd plural kanınızı kanlarınızı
3rd plural kanlarını kanlarını
Dative
Singular Plural
1st singular kanıma kanlarıma
2nd singular kanına kanlarına
3rd singular kanına kanlarına
1st plural kanımıza kanlarımıza
2nd plural kanınıza kanlarınıza
3rd plural kanlarına kanlarına
Locative
Singular Plural
1st singular kanımda kanlarımda
2nd singular kanında kanlarında
3rd singular kanında kanlarında
1st plural kanımızda kanlarımızda
2nd plural kanınızda kanlarınızda
3rd plural kanlarında kanlarında
Ablative
Singular Plural
1st singular kanımdan kanlarımdan
2nd singular kanından kanlarından
3rd singular kanından kanlarından
1st plural kanımızdan kanlarımızdan
2nd plural kanınızdan kanlarınızdan
3rd plural kanlarından kanlarından
Genitive
Singular Plural
1st singular kanımın kanlarımın
2nd singular kanının kanlarının
3rd singular kanının kanlarının
1st plural kanımızın kanlarımızın
2nd plural kanınızın kanlarınızın
3rd plural kanlarının kanlarının
Predicative forms
Singular Plural
1st singular kanım kanlarım
2nd singular kansın kanlarsın
3rd singular kan
kandır 		kanlar
kanlardır
1st plural kanız kanlarız
2nd plural kansınız kanlarsınız
3rd plural kanlar kanlardır

Related termsEdit

UteEdit

  1. house

WutunhuaEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Mandarin 看.

PronunciationEdit

VerbEdit

kan

  1. to look

ReferencesEdit

  • Erika Sandman (2016) A Grammar of Wutun‎[4], University of Helsinki (PhD), →ISBN

YamiEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kaən, compare Malay makan.

VerbEdit

kan

  1. to eat

YorubaEdit

Yoruba numbers (edit)
10
1 2  → 10  →
    Cardinal: ọ̀kan, ení
    Counting: oókan
    Adjectival: kan, méní
    Ordinal: kìíní, kìn-ín-ní
    Adverbial: ẹ̀ẹ̀kan
    Distributive: ọ̀kọ̀ọ̀kan
    Collective: ọ̀kọ̀ọ̀kan

Etymology 1Edit

Derived from oókan.

PronunciationEdit

AdjectiveEdit

kan

  1. one
Derived termsEdit

Etymology 2Edit

PronunciationEdit

VerbEdit

kàn

  1. to touch, to concern

Etymology 3Edit

PronunciationEdit

VerbEdit

kán

  1. to break
    Synonym: fọ́

Yucatec MayaEdit

Alternative formsEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-Mayan *koohng-.

PronunciationEdit

NumeralEdit

kan

  1. four

ReferencesEdit

  • Beltrán de Santa Rosa María, Pedro (1746) Arte de el idioma maya reducido a succintas reglas, y semilexicon yucateco (in Spanish), Mexico: Por la Biuda de D. Joseph Bernardo de Hogal, page 152: “Can. Quatro. 4.”
  • Montgomery, John (2004) Maya-English, English-Maya (Yucatec) Dictionary & Phrasebook, New York: Hippocrene Books, Inc., →ISBN, pages 60, 203
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