# قزان
## Ottoman Turkish
### Alternative forms

* قزغان (kazğan)

### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *kaŕgan (“cauldron”); cognate with Azerbaijani qazan, Bashkir ҡаҙан (qaźan), Chuvash хуран (huran), Kazakh қазан (qazan), Kumyk къазан (qazan), Kyrgyz казан (kazan), Turkmen gāzan and Uzbek qozon.

### Noun

قزان • (kazan) (definite accusative قزانی (kazanı), plural قزانلر (kazanlar))
* cauldron, kettle, a large bowl-shaped pot
    Synonyms: قدر (kidr), مرجل (mircel)
* steam boiler, a boiler designed to produce steam

#### Derived terms

* قزان دیبی (kazan dibi, “food remaining in the bottom of a cauldron”)
* قزان قالدرمق (kazan kaldırmak, “to mutiny, revolt”)
* قزانجق (kazancık, “small cauldron”)
* قزانجی (kazancı, “maker or seller of cauldrons”)

#### Descendants

* Turkish: kazan
* → Albanian: kazan
* → Arabic: قَزَان (qazān), قَازَان (qāzān)
* → Armenian: խազան (xazan), ղազան (ġazan), կազան (kazan), ղզղան (ġzġan)
* → Aromanian: cãzáne
* → Bulgarian: каза́н (kazán)
* → Greek: καζάνι (kazáni)
* → Macedonian: казан (kazan)
* → Romanian: cazàn
* → Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic script: ка̀зан
    Latin script: kàzan
* → Northern Kurdish: quşxane

### Proper noun

قزان • (kazan)
* Kahramankazan (a town and district in Ankara province, Turkey)

#### Descendants

* Turkish: Kahramankazan

### Further reading

* Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1886) “قزان”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume II, Paris: E. Leroux, page 515
* Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kazan1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2506
* Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قزان”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 959
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Lebes”, 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, Vienna, column 928
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “قزان”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 3688
* Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kazan”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
* Nişanyan, Sevan (2010–) “Kahramankazan”, in Nişanyan Yeradları: Türkiye ve Çevre Ülkeler Yerleşim Birimleri Envanteri (in Turkish)
* Поленаковиќ, Харалампие (2007) “362. CǍZÁNE sb. f. pl. cǎzǎńi”, in Зузана Тополињска, Петар Атанасов, editors, Турските елементи во ароманскиот‎, put into Macedonian from the author’s Serbo-Croatian Turski elementi u aromunskom dijalektu (1939, unpublished) by Веселинка Лаброска, Скопје: Македонска академија на науките и уметностите, →ISBN, page 101
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قزان”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1451
* Sezen, Tahir (2017) “Kazan”, in Osmanlı Yer Adları‎, 2nd edition, Ankara: T.C. Başbakanlık Devlet Arşivleri Genel Müdürlüğü, page 442

## Tatar
### Noun

قزان • (transliteration needed) (Cyrillic spelling казан, Latin spelling qazan)
* (Old Tatar) kettle

### Proper noun

قزان • (transliteration needed) (Cyrillic spelling Казан, Latin spelling Qazan)
* (Old Tatar) Kazan (the capital and largest city of the Republic of Tatarstan, Russia)

### See also

* Kazan on Wikipedia.Wikipedia