قان

See also: فان

Arabic

Etymology 1

From the root ق ي ن (q-y-n), or denominal verb of قَيْن (qayn, smith), an ur-Semitic noun.

Verb

قَانَ • (qāna) I, non-past يَقِينُ‎ (yaqīnu)

  1. to forge, to smith; to assemble, to arrange, to get together into order
Conjugation

Noun

قَان • (qān) m

  1. alternative form of خَان (ḵān, khan)
Declension

Etymology 3

Derived from the active participle of قَنَا (qanā, to reach out to, to acquire).

Noun

قانٍ • (qānin) m (plural قَانِيَة (qāniya))

  1. appropriator, owner
Declension

Etymology 4

Apparently borrowed from Khorezmian Turkic, from Proto-Turkic *kiān (blood).

Noun

قَان • (qān) m

  1. (obsolete, only genitive attribute of أَحْمَر (ʔaḥmar, red)) blood
    • 975–997, محمد بن أحمد الخوارزمي [muḥammad ibn ʕaḥmad al-ḵwārizmī], edited by Gerlof van Vloten, مفاتيح العلوم [mafātīḥ al-ʕulūm], Leiden: E. J. Brill, published 1895, pages 169 line 12–170 line 2:
      الَوْرْس يجلب من اليمن أحمر قانٍ يوجد على قشور شجر ينحت منها ويجمع وهو شبيه بالزعفران المسحوق
      Wars is imported from Yemen, blood-red, produces a tree-rind hewn out and collected and it is similar to brayed saffron.
      commented in Seidel, Ernst (1915) “Die Medizin im Kitâb Mafâtîḥ al ʿUlûm”, in Sitzungsberichte der Physikalisch-Medizinischen Sozietät zu Erlangen (in German), volume 47, page 37 Anm. 89
Declension

Etymology 5

Unknown, probably an Old South Arabian borrowing, possibly related to قَنَا (qanā), قَنَى (qanā, to acquire, to obtain), or to قَنَاة (qanāh, spear).

Noun

قَان • (qān) m (collective, singulative قَانَة f (qāna))

  1. (obsolete, Tihāma) a kind of hardwood tree from which bows are made
    • a. 869, الْجَاحِظ [al-jāḥiẓ], “باب ما يُجلب من البلدان من طرائف السلع والأمتعة والجواري والأحجار وغير ذلك [What one imports from strange countries in items, commodities, she-slaves, stones and else.]”, in التَبَصُّر بِٱلتِّجَارَة [at-tabaṣṣur bi-t-tijāra]:
      ومن أرض العرب: الخيل العِراب والنَّعَام والنَّجائب والقانة والأَدَم.
      From the Arabian lands one gets: Pure-bred horses, ostrichs, female Arabian camels, the qāna, and tanned hides.
Declension

Azerbaijani

Noun

قان (countable and uncountable, definite accusative قانی)

  1. Arabic spelling of qan (blood)

Chagatai

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *kiān (blood).

Noun

قان (qan)

  1. blood

Descendants

  • Uyghur: قان (qan) / қан (qan)
  • Uzbek: qon

Kazakh

Alternative scripts
Arabic قان
Cyrillic қан
Latin qan

Noun

قان • (transliteration needed)

  1. Arabic spelling of қан (qan).

Khalaj

Noun

قان (qân, qâan) (definite accusative قانؽ, plural قانلار)

  1. Arabic spelling of qân, qâan (blood)

Declension

Kipchak

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *kiān (blood).

Noun

قان (kan)

  1. blood

Derived terms

  • قان آلچی (kan alçı, lancet)

Descendants

References

Kyrgyz

Noun

قان • (qan)

  1. Arabic spelling of кан (kan).

Ottoman Turkish

قان

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *kiān (blood); cognate with Old Turkic 𐰴𐰣 (qan), Azerbaijani qan, Bashkir ҡан (qan), Chuvash юн (jun), Kazakh қан (qan), Kyrgyz кан (kan), Turkmen gan, Uyghur قان (qan⁩), Uzbek qon and Yakut хаан (qaan).

Noun

قان • (kan) (definite accusative قانی (kanı), plural قانلر (kanlar))

  1. blood, a vital bodily fluid flowing in the bodies of many types of animals
    Synonyms: خون (hun), دم (dem)
  2. (by extension) venesection, phlebotomy, the cutting open or exposing a vein
  3. (by extension) bloodshed, bloodbath, carnage, any slaughter on a large scale

Derived terms

  • بورون قانی (burun kanı, bright scarlet color)
  • قان آرامق (kan aramak, to seek the death of a person)
  • قان آغلامق (kan ağlamak, to shed bitter tears)
  • قان آلمق (kan almak, to take blood)
  • قان ایتمك (kan etmek, to put to death)
  • قان ترلمك (kan terlemek, to sweat profusely)
  • قان دوكمك (kan dökmek, to spill blood)
  • قان دوكیجی (kan dökücü, bloodthirsty)
  • قان صوجوغی (kan sucuğu, blood pudding)
  • قان صیچمق (kan sıçmak, to suffer from dysentery)
  • قان طاشی (kan taşı, haematite)
  • قان طوتمق (kan tutmak, to have a stroke of apoplexy)
  • قان قورودان (kan kurudan, mandrake)
  • قان قورومق (kan kurumak, for blood, to dry)
  • قان قوصمق (kan kusmak, to vomit blood)
  • قان چناغی (kan çanağı, bleeding basin)
  • قان گیتمك (kan gitmek, to be made miserable with anxiety)
  • قان یوتمق (kan yutmak, to suffer extremely)
  • قانجی (kancı, phlebotomist)
  • قانلاتمق (kanlatmak, to make or let be smeared with blood)
  • قانلامق (kanlamak, to smear with blood)
  • قانلانمق (kanlanmak, to become smeared with blood)
  • قانلو (kanlı, blooded)
  • قانه گیرمك (kana girmek, to become a murderer)
  • قانی قاینامق (kanı kaynamak, to be lively)

Descendants

Further reading

Persian

Pronunciation

 

Readings
Classical reading? qān
Dari reading? qān
Iranian reading? ğân
Tajik reading? qon

Noun

قان • (qân)

  1. Alternative form of غان (ğân, birch)

Uyghur

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Chagatai قان (qan), from Proto-Turkic *kiān (blood).

Noun

قان • (qan) (plural قانلار (qanlar))

  1. blood
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