kapan

See also: Kapan, kåpan, and kāpan

Finnish

Noun

kapan

  1. genitive singular of kappa

Anagrams

Indonesian

Etymology 1

Reconstructed as ke- + apa + -an, from Malay kapan, from Javanese kapan (ꦏꦥꦤ꧀), from Old Javanese kapan.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ka.pan/
  • Hyphenation: ka‧pan
  • Rhymes: -apan, -pan, -an

Pronoun

kapan

  1. (interrogative) when
    Kapan dia akan pergi?
    When will he go?
Derived terms
  • kapan-kapan

Etymology 2

From Malay kapan, from Arabic كَفَن (kafan).

Noun

kapan (first-person possessive kapanku, second-person possessive kapanmu, third-person possessive kapannya)

  1. Nonstandard form of kafan.

Further reading

Javanese

Javanese register set
ꦏꦿꦩ (krama): bénjang punapa
ꦔꦺꦴꦏꦺꦴ (ngoko): kapan

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Javanese kapan.

Pronoun

kapan

  1. when

Descendants

  • Malay: kapan
    • Indonesian: kapan

Malay

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -an

Etymology 1

From Javanese kapan (ꦏꦥꦤ꧀), from Old Javanese kapan.

Pronoun

kapan (Jawi spelling کاڤن)

  1. (archaic) when
    Synonym: bila
Descendants

Etymology 2

From Arabic كَفَن (kafan).

Noun

kapan (Jawi spelling کاڤن, plural kapan-kapan, informal 1st possessive kapanku, 2nd possessive kapanmu, 3rd possessive kapannya)

  1. shroud, white cloth to wrap the dead.
Descendants

Further reading

Old Javanese

Etymology

Affixed ka- + apa + -an.

Pronoun

kapan

  1. when

Descendants

Turkish

Etymology 1

From Persian قَپان (qapân).

Noun

kapan (definite accusative kapanı, plural kapanlar)

  1. (historical) A public weighing machine of the Ottoman era, or the office where the machine was located.

Etymology 2

From Proto-Turkic *kap- (to snatch, take; to bite). Compare kapmak.

Noun

kapan (definite accusative kapanı, plural kapanlar)

  1. trap

References

  • Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), kapan1”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
  • Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), kapan2”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
  • Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013) The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN
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