خان

See also: جان

Arabic

خَان
خَان

Etymology 1

From Persian خان (xân, caravanserai).

خِيَانَة

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /xaːn/

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 خَاقَان (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 (plural خَوَانِين (ḵawānīn))

  1. khan, a ruler in Northern Asia
Declension

Bulgar

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *kiān.

Noun

خان (hān)

  1. blood

References

  • Tekin, Talat (1988) Volga Bulgar kitabeleri ve Volga Bulgarcası, Türk Tarih Kurumu Basımevi, →ISBN, page 16

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 script: ха̑н
    Latin script: 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во ароманскиот, put into Macedonian from the author’s Serbo-Croatian Turski elementi u aromunskom dijalektu (1939, unpublished) by Веселинка Лаброска, Скопје: Македонска академија на науките и уметностите, →ISBN, page 134
  • Zenker, Julius Theodor (1876), خان”, in Türkisch-arabisch-persisches Handwörterbuch, volume 2, Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, page 402

Persian

Pronunciation

Dari خان
Iranian Persian
Tajik хон (xon)
    • (Dari): IPA(key): /xɒːn/

    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

    Inherited from Middle Persian, from Old Turkic 𐰴𐰣 (qan) a contraction of 𐰴𐰍𐰣 (qaɣan); probably of non-Turkic Central Asian origin.

    Noun

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

    1. khan
    Descendants

    Noun

    خان (xân)

    1. rifling (The system of grooves in a rifled gun barrel or cannon)

    Punjabi

    Proper noun

    خان (xān) m (Gurmukhi spelling ਖ਼ਾਨ)

    1. a surname, Khan

    Urdu

    Etymology

    Borrowed from Persian خان (xân).

    Pronunciation

    Noun

    خان (xān) m (Hindi spelling ख़ान) (plural خوانین (xavānīn))

    1. the surname Khan
    2. khan

    Uyghur

    Noun

    خان (xan) (plural خانلار (xanlar))

    1. khan
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