قان

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

قَانَ • (qāna) I (non-past يَقِينُ (yaqīnu), verbal noun قَيْن (qayn))

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

قَان • (qān) m

1. alternative form of خَان (ḵān, “khan”)

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

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

1. appropriator, owner

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

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^[1] (in German), volume 47, page 37 Anm. 89

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

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]‎^[2]:

     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.

قان (countable and uncountable, definite accusative قانی)

1. Arabic spelling of qan (“blood”)

From Proto-Turkic *kān (“blood”).

قان (qan)

1. blood

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

Alternative scripts
Arabic	قان
Cyrillic	қан
Latin	qan

قان • (transliteration needed)

1. Arabic spelling of қан (qan).

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

1. Arabic spelling of qân, qâan (“blood”)

From Proto-Turkic *kān (“blood”).

قان (kan)

1. blood

• قان آلچی (kan alçı, “lancet”)

• North Kipchak:
  • Bashkir: ҡан (qan)
  • Tatar: кан (qan)
• West Kipchak:
  • Crimean Tatar: qan
  • Karachay-Balkar: къан (qan)
  • Karaim: кан
  • Kumyk: къан (qan)
• South Kipchak:
  • Caspian:
    • Karakalpak: qan
    • Kazakh: қан (qan)
    • Nogai: кан (kan)
  • Kyrgyz-Kipchak:
    • Kyrgyz: кан (kan)
      • Southern Altai: кан (kan)

• Houtsma, Martin Theodor (1894) Ein türkisch-arabisches Glossar, nach der Leidener Handschrift herausgegeben und erläutert‎^[3], Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 86
• Houtsma, Martin Theodor (1894) Ein türkisch-arabisches Glossar, nach der Leidener Handschrift herausgegeben und erläutert‎^[4], Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 21 (٢١) line 18

قان • (qan)

1. Arabic spelling of кан (kan).

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *kān (“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).

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

• Turkish: kan

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kan1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2373
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “قان”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[5], Vienna: F. Beck, page 353a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قان”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[6], Constantinople: Mihran, page 936
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Sanguis”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[7], Vienna, column 1508
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “قان”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[8], Vienna, column 3598
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kan”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قان”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[9], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1424

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

قان • (qân)

1. Alternative form of غان (ğân, “birch”)

• , қан (qan) — Cyrillic

From Chagatai قان (qan), from Proto-Turkic *kān (“blood”).

قان • (qan) (plural قانلار (qanlar))

1. blood