kapan
Finnish
Noun
kapan
- genitive singular of kappa
Anagrams
Gagauz
Etymology
Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish قَاپَانْ (qapan), from Proto-Turkic *kap-gan. By surface analysis, kapa- + -an. Compare Turkish kapan, Crimean Tatar qapqan. Doublet of kapkan.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kɑˈpɑn/
- Hyphenation: ka‧pan
Noun
kapan (definite accusative kapanı, plural kapannar)
Further reading
- Mavrodi M. F., editor (2019), Gagauzça-rusça sözlük: klaslar 1-4, Komrat: Gagauziya M.V. Maruneviç adına Bilim-Aaraştırma merkezi, →ISBN, page 46
- Kopuşçu M. İ. , Todorova S. A. , Kiräkova T.İ., editors (2019), Gagauzça-rusça sözlük: klaslar 5-12, Komrat: Gagauziya M.V. Maruneviç adına Bilim-Aaraştırma merkezi, →ISBN, page 91
Indonesian
Etymology 1
From Malay kapan, from Javanese kapan (ꦏꦥꦤ꧀), from Old Javanese kapan. Equivalent to apa + ke- -an.
Pronunciation
- (Standard Indonesian) IPA(key): /ˈkapan/ [ˈka.pan]
Audio: (file) - Rhymes: -apan
- Syllabification: ka‧pan
Pronoun
kapan
- (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 (plural kapan-kapan)
- nonstandard form of kafan
Further reading
- “kapan” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.
Javanese
Romanization
kapan
- romanization of ꦏꦥꦤ꧀
Malay
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -an
Etymology 1
From Javanese ꦏꦥꦤ꧀ (kapan), from Old Javanese kapan.
Pronoun
kapan (Jawi spelling کاڤن)
Descendants
- > Indonesian: kapan (inherited)
Etymology 2
Noun
kapan (Jawi spelling کاڤن, plural kapan-kapan)
- shroud, white cloth to wrap the dead.
Descendants
- > Indonesian: kapan (inherited)
Further reading
- “kapan” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.
Old Javanese
Etymology
Pronoun
kapan
Descendants
Further reading
- "kapan" in P.J. Zoetmulder with the collaboration of S.O. Robson, Old Javanese-English Dictionary. 's-Gravenhage: M. Nijhoff, 1982.
Turkish
Etymology 1
Inherited from Ottoman Turkish قپان (kapan, “trap”), itself from Proto-Turkic *kapgan (“trap”), a development of *kap- (“to snatch, take; to bite”). By surface analysis, kap- + -an
Noun
kapan (definite accusative kapanı, plural kapanlar)
Etymology 2
Inherited from Ottoman Turkish قپان (kapan), from Old Anatolian Turkish قپان, borrowed from Classical Persian قپان (qapān, qappān), from Arabic قبان (qabbān), from Byzantine Greek κάμπανος (kámpanos), γάμπανος (gámpanos), from Latin campāna.
Noun
kapan (definite accusative kapanı, plural kapanlar)
- (historical) A public weighing machine of the Ottoman era, or the office where the machine was located.
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