kan

kan (plural kans)

1. Archaic form of khan.

Borrowed from Japanese 貫.

kan (plural kan)

1. A Japanese unit of weight, approximately 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 […]

• NAK, NKA, nka

From Dutch kan.

• IPA^(key): /kan/

kan (present kan, past kon)

1. can

kan

1. (Harak) woman

• akan (Alak)

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

kan

1. tree

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

• IPA^(key): [kã˦ã˨]

kan

1. (anatomy) neck

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

kan m

1. song

kan

1. (possessive subject marker) these

• ekkan

• Rhymes: -a

kan

1. present of kunne

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

• Rhymes: -ɑn
• IPA^(key): /kɑn/

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kan f (plural kannen, diminutive kannetje n)

1. jug
2. pot (for tea, coffee, etc.)
3. can (cylindrical vessel)

kan

1. first-, second- and third-person singular present indicative of kunnen
2. imperative of kunnen
3. (archaic) plural imperative of kunnen

• (2) kunt - more formal

kan m (plural kans)

1. "khan"[1]

From Proto-Turkic *kiān (“blood”).

kan (definite accusative {{{1}}}, plural {{{2}}})

1. blood

kan

1. Obsolete spelling of kann

From French quand.

kan

1. when

• kilè

Of unknown origin.[1]

• IPA^(key): [ˈkɒn]

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kan (plural kanok)

1. male (of dogs)
2. boar

• (dog): szuka

• kanász
• kanos
• vadkan

kan

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

kan

1. water

• Takács, Gábor (2007) Etymological Dictionary of Egyptian, volume 3, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 201:

  […] 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] […]

Shortened form of bukan

• IPA^(key): /kan/
• Rhymes: -kan, -an

kan

1. isn't it?

kan

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

• 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.

From French quand.

kan

1. when

kan

1. plural of canne

kan

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

kan

1. present tense of kunna/kunne

From Sanskrit कर्ण (kárṇa, “ear”). Cognate with Hindi कान (kān) and Punjabi ਕੰਨ (kann, “ear”).

kan m (plural kan)

1. ear

kan

1. water; fresh water

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

• IPA^(key): /kâːn/
• Rhymes: -âːn

kȃn m (Cyrillic spelling ка̑н)

1. khan

kan

1. this (masculine)

• IPA^(key): /kanː/

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kan

1. present tense of kunna

From English cunt.

kan

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

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɑn/

kan (definite accusative kanı, plural kanlar)

1. blood
2. linage

• kanlı
• kansız
• kanlık
• kanlanmak