قاچان

Khalaj

Adverb

قاچان (qaçân)

1. Arabic spelling of qaçân (“when”)

Old Anatolian Turkish

Adverb

قَاچَانْ (qaçan)

1. Alternative form of خَاچَانْ (ḫaçan)

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology 1

From قاچـ (kaç-, “to flee, escape, run away”) +‎ ـان (-an).

Adjective

قاچان • (kaçan)

1. fleeing, escaping, absconding, that flees, escapes, or absconds

Derived terms

• قولاغه قاچان (kulağa kaçan, “earwig”)

Descendants

• Turkish: kaçan

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kaçan2”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2314
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قاچان”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1408

Etymology 2

Adverb

قاچان • (kaçan)

1. (early Ottoman) Alternative spelling of هاچان (haçan, “when, at what time”)

Further reading

• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قاچان”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 922
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قاچان”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[3], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1408

Uyghur

Other scripts
Perso-Arabic	قاچان
Latin	‍qachan‍
Cyrillic	қачан

Etymology

From *qačan "when, at what time", from Proto-Turkic *ka- (“interrogative particle”).

Cognate with Old Turkic [script needed] (qačan, “when”), Bashkir ҡасан (qasan), Kazakh қашан (qaşan), Kyrgyz качан (kacan), Uzbek qachon, Shor қачан, Yakut хаһан (qahan, “when”), etc.

Adverb

قاچان • (qachan)

1. when, at what time