чан

• IPA^(key): [t͡ʃaːn]

чан • (čan)

1. sharp (Able to cut easily)

   Чатэр чан

   Čatɛr čan

   The sword is sharp.

   Шъэжъыер чан

   Ŝɛẑəjer čan

   The knife is sharp.

2. sharp (Intelligent)

чан • (čan)

1. fellow

• (sharp): жан (žan) (Kabardian)
• (sharp): чыян (čəjan) (Shapsug dialect)

• папцӏэ (papcʼɛ) (Sharp edge)

Akin to Andi чониду (čonidu).

чан • (čan)

1. a hunt

Inherited from Old East Slavic тшанъ (tšanŭ) or тчанъ (tčanŭ), from дъщанъ (dŭščanŭ, “made of boards”), cognate to доска́ (doská), доща́тый (doščátyj).

• IPA^(key): [t͡ɕan]

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чан • (čan) m inan (genitive ча́на, nominative plural чаны́ or ча́ны, genitive plural чано́в or ча́нов)

1. tub, vat, tank; tun
   • 1972, Братья Стругацкие [Arkady and Boris Strugatsky], chapter 3, in Пикник на обочине, Ленинград: Аврора; English translation from Olena Bormashenko, transl., Roadside Picnic, Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 2012:

     Дождь хлы́нул внеза́пно, ра́зом, как бу́дто в небеса́х опроки́нули чан с водо́й.

     Doždʹ xlýnul vnezápno, rázom, kak búdto v nebesáx oprokínuli čan s vodój.

     The rain gushed down all at once, as if a gigantic bucket of water had been tipped over in the sky.

• доска́ f (doská)

Borrowed

• диск m (disk)

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “чан”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Chernykh, P. Ja. (1999) “чан”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), 3rd edition, volume 2 (панцирь – ящур), Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 374
• Šanskij, N. M. (2004) “чан”, in Školʹnyj etimologičeskij slovarʹ russkovo jazyka [School Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Drofa
• Tsyhanenko, H. P. (1989) “чан”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), 2nd edition, Kyiv: Radjanska shkola, →ISBN, page 473

• Dal, Vladimir (1880–1882) “чан”, in Толковый Словарь живаго великорускаго языка [Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language] (in Russian), 2nd edition, Publication of the bookseller-typographer Wolf, M. O.

From Proto-Turkic *yān (“side”).

чан • (çan) (definite accusative чанны, plural чаннар)

1. side

Inherited from Old East Slavic тшанъ (tšanŭ) or тчанъ (tčanŭ), from дъщанъ (dŭščanŭ, “made of boards”), cognate to до́шка (dóška) (genitive plural до́щок (dóščok)), доща́ний (doščányj).

• IPA^(key): [t͡ʃan]

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чан • (čan) m inan (genitive ча́на, nominative plural чани́, genitive plural чані́в, relational adjective чанови́й)

1. tub, tank, vat

• Bilodid, I. K., editor (1970–1980), “чан”, in Словник української мови: в 11 т. [Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language: in 11 vols] (in Ukrainian), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka
• “чан”, in Горох – Словозміна [Horokh – Inflection] (in Ukrainian)