English Explanatory Dictionary

kazan

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. a cauldron or cooking pot used in Central Asian cuisine
name
  1. The capital and largest city of the Republic of Tatarstan, Russia.
  2. the Khanate of Kazan, a Tatar Turkic state that occupied the territory of former Volga Bulgaria between 1438 and 1552.
name
  1. A surname.

Word forms

kazan kazans

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian каза́н (kazán), from a Turkic language. Cognate with Azerbaijani qazan, Kazakh қазан (qazan), Turkish kazan, Uzbek qozon.

Derived words

Kazanian
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