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kazan

kazan noun: a cauldron or cooking pot used in Central Asian cuisine.

kazan: a cauldron or cooking pot used in Central Asian cuisine
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Noun

kazan (plural kazans)

  1. a cauldron or cooking pot used in Central Asian cuisine
    • A proper kazan also has to be well greased by constant use — it should never be washed with water, or, God forbid, actually scrubbed and scoured. The Uzbeks just wipe it carefully with an oiled cloth; and they will insist and I will second this — that the older the kazan, the better the pilaf.1990, Anya Von Bremzen, John Welchman, Please to the Table: The Russian Cookbook

Proper noun (1) capitalized: Kazan

Kazan

  1. The capital and largest city of the Republic of Tatarstan, Russia.
  2. (historical) A former governate in Russia, existing from 1708 to 1920. Capital: Kazan.
  3. (historical) the Khanate of Kazan, a Tatar Turkic state that occupied the territory of former Volga Bulgaria between 1438 and 1552.

Proper noun (2) capitalized: Kazan

Kazan (plural Kazans)

  1. A surname.

Forms of kazan

Noun
pluralkazans
Proper noun
pluralKazans

Origin of kazan

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

Borrowed from Russian Каза́нь (Kazánʹ).

Various origins: * Borrowed from Hebrew חַזָּן (khazán, “Jewish cantor”), an occupational surname. * Borrowed from Turkish Kazan, a metonymic occupational surname from kazan (“kettle, boiler, cauldron”). * Borrowed from Greek Καζάν (Kazán), a metonymic occupational surname that derives from the same Turkish word.

Words formed from kazan

Questions about kazan

What does kazan mean?
Kazan means a cauldron or cooking pot used in Central Asian cuisine.
What part of speech is kazan?
Kazan can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of kazan?
The plural of kazan is kazans.

Words near kazan in the dictionary

  1. kazakhstanite
  2. kazakovite
  3. Kazaks
  4. Kazakstan
  5. kazam
  6. kazan
  7. Kazan'
  8. Kazanian
  9. Kazanians
  10. Kazanjian
  11. Kazanjians

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