قاپان

Azerbaijani

Noun

قاپان (definite accusative قاپانی, plural قاپانلر)

1. Arabic spelling of qapan

Old Anatolian Turkish

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *kap-gan, from Proto-Turkic *kap-.

Noun

قَاپَانْ (qapan)

1. trap

Descendants

• Azerbaijani: qapan
• Gagauz: kapan
• Ottoman Turkish: قپان (kapan), قاپان (kapan)
  • Turkish: kapan
  • → Armenian: խափան (xapʻan), խափխան (xapʻxan)
  • → Romanian: capcană

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology 1

From قاپـ (kap-, “to snatch, seize, grab”) +‎ ـان (-an).

Adjective

قاپان • (kapan)

1. snatching, seizing, grabbing, that snatches, seizes, or grabs

Derived terms

• اوشاق قاپان (uşak kapan, “Nubian vulture”)
• اون قاپان (un kapan, “flour warehouse”)
• دمیر قاپان (demir kapan, “loadstone”)
• صمان قاپان (saman kapan, “yellow amber”)
• قاپان قاپانه (kapan kapana, “general scramble”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: kapan

Further reading

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• Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1886) “قاپان”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume II, Paris: E. Leroux, page 440
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قاپان”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1405

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

قاپان • (kapan) (definite accusative قاپانی (kapanı), plural قاپانلر (kapanlar))

1. Alternative spelling of قپان (kapan, “trap, snare, gin”)

Further reading

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• Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1886) “قاپان”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume II, Paris: E. Leroux, page 440
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قاپان”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 919