barkan
barkan is the alternative spelling of barchan.
Meaning of barchan
Noun
barchan (plural barchans)
- An arc-shaped shifting sand dune comprising well-sorted (uniformly sized) sand.
- The sand is usually very well sorted in barchans, for it is constantly re-worked as the dune 'marches'. The marching also causes cross-bedding inside the barchan, with a dip parallel to the sand-fall face.1966, E[dwin] S[herbon] Hills, C[liff] D. Ollier, C[harles] R[owland] Twidale, “Geomorphology”, in E. S. Hills, editor, Arid Lands: A Geographical Appraisal (Routledge Revivals), New York, N.Y....
Proper noun capitalized: Barkan
Barkan (plural Barkans)
- A surname from Hebrew.
Forms of barkan
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | barkans |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Barkans |
Origin of barkan
Borrowed from Hebrew בַּרְקָן (barkán).
Questions about barkan
- What does barkan mean?
- Barkan means a surname from Hebrew.
- What is barkan the alternative spelling of?
- Barkan is the alternative spelling of barchan.
- What part of speech is barkan?
- Barkan is a proper noun.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: barkan (page history and authors); Barkan (page history and authors); barchan (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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