kan

See also: Appendix:Variations of "kan"

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Translingual

Etymology

Clipping of English Kannada, from Kannada ಕನ್ನಡ (kannaḍa).

Symbol

kan

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

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Kannada terms

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɑːn/

• Audio (US):

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• Homophone: khan
• Homophone: carn (non-rhotic)
• Homophone: con (father-bother merger)
• Rhymes: -ɑːn

Etymology 1

Noun

kan (plural kans)

1. Archaic form of khan.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Japanese 貫 (kan).

Noun

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 […]

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Cantonese 斤 (gan¹).

Noun

kan (plural kans)

1. (Hong Kong) A catty, legally defined as 0.60478982 kilograms.

Etymology 4

Borrowed from Japanese 槓 (kan).

Noun

kan (plural kans)

1. (Japanese mahjong) A set of four identical tiles.

   Synonyms: kong, quad, four-of-a-kind

2. (Japanese mahjong) A call declaring the formation of such a set.

   Synonym: kong

Usage notes

Among English-speaking players of the Japanese variant of mahjong, kan is more commonly used than the Cantonese-derived term kong.

Coordinate terms

• chii
• pon

See also

• kan cheong
• kan ni na
• kan ni na bu

Anagrams

• NAK, NKA, nak, nka

Achang

Pronunciation

• (Myanmar) /kan˧/

Verb

kan

1. to strain, filter

Further reading

• Inglis, Douglas; Sampu, Nasaw; Jaseng, Wilai; Jana, Thocha (2005), A preliminary Ngochang–Kachin–English Lexicon‎, Payap University, page 52

Afrikaans

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kan/

• Audio:

  (file)

Verb

kan (present kan, past kon)

1. can

Alak

Noun

kan

1. (Harak) woman

Alternative forms

• akan (Alak)

Further reading

• Theraphan L. Thongkum, The place of Lawi, Harak and Tariang within Bahnaric (1997), in The Mon-Khmer Studies Journal, volume 27

Awar

Noun

kan

1. tree

Further reading

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

Bambara

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [kã˦ã˨]

Noun

kan

1. (anatomy) neck

References

• 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.

Basque

Noun

kan

1. inessive singular of ka

Bikol Central

Alternative forms

• kang

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ka-n, from Proto-Austronesian *ka

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkan/ [ˈkan̪]

Preposition

kan (Basahan spelling ᜃᜈ᜔)

1. of—objective marker for nouns or phrases other than personal names.

   Harong kan panadero.

   House of the baker.

   Aki kan magurang.

   Child of the parent/s

   Magurang kan aki.

   Parent/s of the child

See also

• kay
• ki
• nin

Breton

Noun

kan m

1. song

Catalan

Alternative forms

• khan (superseded)

Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin chanis, from Turkic.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈkan]

Noun

kan m (plural kans)

1. khan

Derived terms

• gran kan
• kanat

Further reading

• “kan”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

Chuukese

Determiner

kan

1. (possessive subject marker) these

Related terms

• ekkan