kağan
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Turkish
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Ottoman Turkish خاقان (ḫāḳān)[1] (alternatively قاغان (ḳaġān)), from Old Turkic 𐰴𐰍𐰣 (qǧn¹), from Proto-Turkic *qaɣan or *xaɣan, ultimate origin is uncertain. Cognates with Mongolian ᠬᠠᠭᠠᠨ (qaɣan), Kazakh қаған (qağan), Kyrgyz каган (kagan), Southern Altai каан (kaan), Tatar каган (qağan), Uyghur قاغان (qaghan), Uzbek xoqon.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]kağan (definite accusative kağanı, plural kağanlar)
Declension
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[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Redhouse, James W. (1890) “خاقان”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 823
Further reading
[edit]- “kağan”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kağan¹”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2331