barchan

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Alternative forms

• barchane, barkan, barkhan

Etymology

From Russian барха́н (barxán), from Kazakh барқан (barqan).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɑː(ɹ)ˈkɑːn/, /bɑː(ɹ)ˈxɑːn/

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Noun

barchan (plural barchans)

1. An arc-shaped sand ridge comprising well-sorted sand.
   • 1966, Edwin Sherbon Hills, Arid Lands: A Geographical Appraisal‎, page 72:

     The sand is usually very well sorted in barchans, for it is constantly re-worked as the dune ‘marches’. The marching also causes cross-bedding inside the barchan, with a dip parallel to the sand-fall face.

   • 1988, Robert Irwin, The Mysteries of Algiers, Dedalus, published 1993, page 69:

     But to follow the dunes around the foot of their slopes is also tedious and one can walk for half a kilometre east or west, finding one barchan linked to another and no easy way through […] .

   • 2008, Julie Laity, Deserts and Desert Environments‎, page 205:

     Barchans and transverse dunes are essentially of the same type, forming and migrating under a unidirectional wind regime. The difference between the two is related to the amount of sand: barchans are isolated mounds, whereas transverse dunes are composed of many barchans coalesced into a single, longer dune form (Tsoar 2001).

   • 2010, Robert S. Anderson, Suzanne P. Anderson, Geomorphology: The Mechanics and Chemistry of Landscapes‎, page 482:

     Perhaps the most distinctive is the barchan dune, an isolated crescentic form with arms that stretch downwind. Barchans are not huge, often with heights of only a few meters.

Derived terms

• barchanoid

Translations

arc-shaped sand ridge

Arabic: كَثِيب m (kaṯīb), كَثِيب هِلَالِيّ m (kaṯīb hilāliyy) Azerbaijani: barxan Belarusian: барха́н m (barxán) Bulgarian: барха́н m (barhán) Chinese: Mandarin: 新月形沙丘 (xīnyuè xíng shāqiū) Estonian: barhaan Finnish: kaaridyyni French: barkhane (fr) f Georgian: ბარხანი (barxani) Italian: barcana f Japanese: バルハン (baruhan) Kazakh: барқан (barqan), дөң (döñ) Korean: 바르한 (bareuhan) Kyrgyz: бархан (barhan) Mongolian: Cyrillic: манх (mn) (manx) Persian: برخان (barxân) Polish: barchan (pl) m Russian: барха́н (ru) m (barxán) Turkish: barkan (tr) Ukrainian: барха́н (uk) m (barxán) Uzbek: barxan (uz)

Old Czech

Alternative forms

• parchan

Etymology

Borrowed from Old High German barchant, from Medieval Latin barchanus, from Old French barracan.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (13^th CE) /ˈbarxan/
• IPA^(key): (15^th CE) /ˈbarxan/

Noun

barchan m inan

1. fustian

Declension

Declension of barchan (hard o-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	barchan	barchany	barchani, barchanové
genitive	barchana, barchanu	barchanú	barchanóv
dative	barchanu	barchanoma	barchanóm
accusative	barchan	barchany	barchany
vocative	barchane	barchany	barchani, barchanové
locative	barchaně, barchanu	barchanú	barchaniech
instrumental	barchanem	barchanoma	barchany

This table shows the most common forms around the 13th century.
See also Appendix:Old Czech nouns and Appendix:Old Czech pronunciation.

Descendants

• Old Polish: barchan
  • Polish: barchan (“fustian”), (Olszytn) barchim, (Warmia) parchim, (Warmia) parchin
    • → Kashubian: barchón
  • Silesian: barchin

References

• Jan Gebauer (1903–1916), “barchan”, in Slovník staročeský (in Czech), Prague: Česká grafická společnost "unie", Česká akademie císaře Františka Josefa pro vědy, slovesnost a umění