haçan

Azerbaijani
Other scripts
Cyrillic һачан
Perso-Arabic هاچان‎

Etymology

From Old Anatolian Turkish [script needed] (qaçan)[1]. Cognate with Turkmen haçan.

Pronunciation
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  • IPA(key): [ˈhɑt͡ʃɑn]

Adverb

haçan

  1. (interrogative) when?
    Siz haçan gəlmisiniz? ― When did you arrive?

Synonyms

See also
Azerbaijani interrogative pro-forms
English Azerbaijani
what nə, nəmənə (South Azerbaijani)
who kim
which hansı
which (in a numbered series) neçənci
who (by occupation) nəçi
who (by origin) haralı
where (which place) hara
where (at which place) harada
whither (to which place) hara, haraya
whence (from which place) haradan
when nə vaxt, nə zaman, haçan, havaxt (colloquial)
why niyə, nə üçün, neyçün
how necə, nətər
how much nə qədər
how many neçə

References
  1. Gölpınarlı, Abdülbâki (1934), “Yunus Emre’de Öz Türkçe Kelimeler [Native Turkic words in Yunus Emre]”, in Türkiyat Mecmuası, volume 4

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish هاچان‎ (haçan), from older قاچان‎ (kaçan), from Old Anatolian Turkish [script needed] (qaçan).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [hɑt͡ʃɑn]
  • Hyphenation: ha‧çan

Adverb

haçan (dialectal)

  1. (interrogative) when?
    Synonyms: ne vakit, ne zaman
  2. now that, since
    Synonym: mademki
  3. (used interjectionally) how quickly, so quickly, what a short time
    haçan gidip geldin ― [it's amazing] how quickly you went [there] and came [back]
    Synonym: ne çabuk

Turkmen

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic [Term?]. Cognate with Azerbaijani and Turkish haçan.

Adverb

haçan

  1. (interrogative) when?
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