different between kan vs koan

English

Etymology 1

Noun

kan (plural kans)

1. Archaic form of khan.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Japanese ?.

Noun

kan (plural kan)

1. A Japanese unit of weight, approximately 8.267 lb.

Anagrams

• NAK, NKA, nak, nka

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch kan, singular of kunnen, from Middle Dutch cunnen, from Old Dutch cunnan, from Proto-Germanic *kunnan?, from Proto-Indo-European *?neh?-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kan/

Verb

kan (present kan, past kon)

1. can

Alak

Noun

kan

1. (Harak) woman

Alternative forms

• akan (Alak)

Further reading

• Theraphan L. Thongkum, The place of Lawi, Harak and Tariang within Bahnaric (1997), in The Mon-Khmer Studies Journal, volume 27

Awar

Noun

kan

1. tree

Further reading

• Catherine Levy, Language Research in Papua New Guinea: A Case Study of Awar (2005)

Bambara

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [kã?ã?]

Noun

kan

1. (anatomy) neck

References

• 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.

Basque

Noun

kan

1. inessive singular of ka

Bikol Central

Preposition

kan

1. Of—objective marker for nouns or phrases other than personal names.

Breton

Noun

kan m

1. song

Chuukese

Determiner

kan

1. (possessive subject marker) these

Related terms

• ekkan

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?k?an?], [?k?an], [?k?a]
• Rhymes: -a

Verb

kan

1. present of kunne

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?n/
• Hyphenation: kan
• Rhymes: -?n

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch canne. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Noun

kan f (plural kannen, diminutive kannetje n)

1. jug
2. pot (for tea, coffee, etc.)
3. can (cylindrical vessel)

Derived terms

• bierkan
• koffiekan
• melkkan
• stroopkan
• waterkan
• wijnkan

Descendants

• Afrikaans: kan
• ? Japanese: ?

Etymology 2

From Old French chan, from Medieval Latin canus, caanus, of Turkic origin, from Old Turkic x?n (x?n, “Central Asian khan”), probably ultimately of non-Turkic (Central Asian) origin.

Noun

kan m (plural kannen, diminutive kannetje n)

1. khan (Turkish or Mongol ruler)

Derived terms

• kanaat

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

kan

1. first-, second- and third-person singular present indicative of kunnen
2. imperative of kunnen
3. (archaic) plural imperative of kunnen

Synonyms

• (present singular): kunt (2 sg.)- more formal

French

Noun

kan m (plural kans)

1. "khan"

References

Gagauz

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *ki?n (“blood”).

Noun

kan (definite accusative {{{1}}}, plural {{{2}}})

1. blood

German

Verb

kan

1. Obsolete spelling of kann

Haitian Creole

Etymology

From French quand.

Adverb

kan

1. when

Synonyms

• kilè

Hungarian

Etymology

Of unknown origin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?k?n]
• Rhymes: -?n

Noun

kan (plural kanok)

1. male (of dogs)
2. boar

Declension

Antonyms

• (dog): szuka

Derived terms

• kanász
• kanos
• vadkan

References

Japanese

Romanization

kan

1. R?maji transcription of ??
2. R?maji transcription of ??

Kera

Noun

kan

1. water

References

• Takács, Gábor (2007) Etymological Dictionary of Egyptian, volume 3, Leiden: Brill, ?ISBN, page 201:

  […] we should carefully distinguish the following Ch. roots from AA *m-? "water" [GT]:

  (1) Ch. *h-m "water" [GT]: […] Kwang kà?m [Jng.], Kera kan [Ebert] […]

Kholosi

Etymology

From Sanskrit ???? (kar?á).

Noun

kan ?

1. (anatomy) ear

References

• Eric Anonby; Hassan Mohebi Bahmani (2014) , “Shipwrecked and Landlocked: Kholosi, an Indo-Aryan Language in South-west Iran”, in Cahier de Studia Iranica xx?^[2], pages 13-36

Lacandon

Etymology

From Proto-Mayan *kaahn.

Noun

kan

1. snake

Derived terms

References

• Baer, Phillip; Baer, Mary; Chan K?in, Manuel; Chan K?in, Antonio (2018) Diccionaro maya lacandón (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 51)?^[3] (in Spanish), Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., page 93

Malay

Etymology

Shortened form of bukan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kan/
• Rhymes: -kan, -an

Adverb

kan

1. isn't it?

Mandarin

Romanization

kan

1. Nonstandard spelling of k?n.
2. Nonstandard spelling of k?n.
3. Nonstandard spelling of kàn.

Usage notes

• English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

Mauritian Creole

Etymology

From French quand.

Adverb

kan

1. when

Middle English

Noun

kan

1. plural of canne

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

Verb

kan

1. present of kunne
2. can; may; be able to

Etymology 2

Noun

kan m (definite singular kanen, indefinite plural kaner, definite plural kanene)

1. form removed with the spelling reform of 2005; superseded by khan

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From Old Norse kann.

Alternative forms

• (non-standard since 1938) kann

Verb

kan

1. present tense of kunna and kunne

Etymology 2

Noun

kan m (definite singular kanen, indefinite plural kanar, definite plural kanane)

1. form removed with the spelling reform of 2005; superseded by khan

Romani

Etymology

From Sanskrit ???? (kár?a, “ear”). Cognate with Hindi ??? (k?n) and Punjabi ??? (kann, “ear”).

Noun

kan m (plural kana)

1. ear

Seimat

Noun

kan

1. water; fresh water

References

• Beata Wozna, Theresa Wilson, Seimat Grammar Essentials (2005)

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kâ?n/
• Rhymes: -â?n

Noun

k?n m (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. khan

Declension

Somali

Determiner

kan

1. this (masculine)

Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kan?/

Verb

kan

1. present of kunna

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English cunt.

Noun

kan

1. (vulgar) cunt (female genitalia)
2. (vulgar) cunt (term of abuse)

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish ???? (kan, “blood”), from Proto-Turkic *ki?n (“blood”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?n/

Noun

kan (definite accusative kan?, plural kanlar)

1. blood
2. (dialectal) kitchen

Declension

Related terms

• kanl?
• kans?z
• kanl?k
• kanlanmak

Yami

Etymology

Compare Malay makan (“to eat”).

Verb

kan

1. to eat

Yoruba

Etymology

Derived from oókan.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k???/

Adjective

kan

1. one

Derived terms

• ????kan

Yucatec Maya

Alternative forms

• can (obsolete)

Etymology

From Proto-Mayan *koohng-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?kan]

Numeral

kan

1. four

References

• Beltrán de Santa Rosa María, Pedro (1746) Arte de el idioma maya reducido a succintas reglas, y semilexicon yucateco (in Spanish), Mexico: Por la Biuda de D. Joseph Bernardo de Hogal, page 152: “Can. Quatro. 4.”
• Montgomery, John (2004) Maya-English, English-Maya (Yucatec) Dictionary & Phrasebook, New York: Hippocrene Books, Inc., ?ISBN, pages 60, 203

English

Alternative forms

• k?an

Etymology

From Japanese ?? (k?an), which was from Chinese ?? (g?ng'àn, “official business”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?k??.??n/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?ko?.?n/

Noun

koan (plural koans)

1. (Zen Buddhism) A story about a Zen master and his student, sometimes like a riddle, other times like a fable, which has become an object of Zen study, and which, when meditated upon, may unlock mechanisms in the Zen student’s mind leading to satori.
2. A riddle with no solution, used to provoke reflection on the inadequacy of logical reasoning, and to lead to enlightenment.

Translations

Anagrams

• KAON, Kano, Kona, NKAO, kano, kaon

French

Etymology

Japanese ?? (k?an), from Literary Chinese ?? (literally, "public case").

Noun

koan m (plural koan)

1. koan

Further reading

• “koan” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• kaon

Hungarian

Alternative forms

• kóan

Etymology

From English koan, from Japanese ?? (k?an), from Literary Chinese ?? (literally, "public case").

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?ko??n]
• Hyphenation: ko?an
• Rhymes: -?n

Noun

koan (plural koanok)

1. koan

Declension

Volapük

Noun

koan (nominative plural koans)

1. shell, seashell

Declension

Derived terms

• koanaf (“shellfish”)

Yola

Noun

koan

1. Alternative form of cooanes