خان

See also: جان

Arabic

خَان
خَان

Etymology 1

From Persian خان (xân, caravanserai).

خِيَانَة

Noun

خَان (ḵān) m (plural خَانَات (ḵānāt))

  1. hostel, caravanserai, inn
Declension
Synonyms
  • مُسَافِرْخَانَة (musāfirḵāna) (Vulgar Arabic)
Derived terms

Etymology 2

From the root خ و ن (ḵ-w-n).

Verb

خَانَ (ḵāna) I, non-past يَخُونُ‎ (yaḵūnu)

  1. to be disloyal, to be faithless, to be false, to be treacherous, to be perfidious; to act disloyally, to act treacherously, to act perfidiously
  2. to betray
    1. to cheat, to dupe, to hoodwink, to deceive, to impose upon, to fool, to deceive, to mislead
    2. to forsake, to desert, to let down
    3. to fail, to break (a promise, contract)
Conjugation

Etymology 3

From earlier قَان (qān), derived from Old Turkic 𐰴𐰣 (qan) a contraction of 𐰴𐰍𐰣 (qaɣan); doublet of خاقان (ḵāqān) an earlier form, from Middle Persian hʾkʾn' (xāgān), from Old Turkic 𐰴𐰍𐰣 (qaɣan); ultimately of unknown origin, suggested as a borrowing.

Noun

خَان (ḵān) m

  1. khan, a ruler in Northern Asia
Declension

Ottoman Turkish

خان
خان

Etymology 1

From Persian خان (xân, caravanserai).

Noun

خان (han) (plural خانلار)

  1. inn, caravanserai

Descendants

  • Turkish: han
  • Albanian: han
  • Aromanian: háne
  • Bulgarian: хан (han)
  • Greek: χάνι (cháni)
  • Hungarian: hán
  • Romanian: han
  • Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic: ха̑н
    Latin: hȃn

Etymology 2

Compare Old Turkic 𐰴𐰍𐰣 (qaɣan), considered to be of non-Turkic Central Asian origin.

Noun

خان (han)

  1. khan

Descendants

References

  • Поленаковиќ, Харалампие (2007), 817.”, in Зузана Тополињска, Петар Атанасов, editors, Турските елементи во ароманскиот, put into Macedonian from the author’s Serbo-Croatian Turski elementi u aromunskom dijalektu (1939, unpublished) by Веселинка Лаброска, Скопје: Македонска академија на науките и уметностите, ISBN 978-9989-101-87-8, page 134
  • Zenker, Julius Theodor (1876), خان”, in Türkisch-arabisch-persisches Handwörterbuch, volume 2, Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, page 402

Persian

Etymology 1

From Middle Persian hʾn' (xān, house).

Noun

خان (xân) (plural خان‌ها (xân-hâ))

  1. caravanserai

Descendants

References

  • MacKenzie, D. N. (1971), “xān”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 93

Etymology 2

From Old Turkic, probably of non-Turkic Central Asian origin.

Noun

خان (xân) (plural خان‌ها (xân-hâ) or خانات (xânât) or خوانین (xavânin))

  1. khan

Punjabi

Proper noun

خان (kḥān) m (Gurmukhi spelling ਖ਼ਾਨ)

  1. A surname, Khan.

Urdu

Noun

خان (xān) m (Hindi spelling ख़ान)

  1. khan

Uyghur

Noun

خان (xan) (plural خانلار (xanlar))

  1. khan
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