چان

• جان‎ (jān /čān/)

From Classical Arabic كَانَ‎ (kāna, “to be”).

• (Kuwait) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃɑːn/

چان • (čān)

1. (past events only) hence, then, afterward, after that (+imperfect verb)

   ‏رحت المحاضرة متأخر چان الدكتورة تزفني‎

   I went to the lecture late and hence the professor scolded me

2. used to provide a suggestion pertaining to something that hapened in the past (+perfect verb), roughly: why didn't, could have (had), should have (had)

   ‏-شسويتي بالامتحان؟
   -زفّت
   -چان ييتي درستي معانا بالمكتبة‎

   -What (how) did you do in the test?
   -I screwed up
   -Why didn't you come study with us in the library

چان • (čān)

1. (dialectal, Iraq) to be

   Synonym: كان‎ (kān) (dialectal, Kuwait)

Not used in Kuwait except in the fossilised expression چان زين‎ (“it would have been good, I wish”).