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konkan

konkan is the alternative form of conquian.

Meaning of conquian

Noun

conquian (uncountable)

  1. A card game, an ancestor of rummy.

Noun capitalized: Konkan

Konkan (uncountable)

  1. (alternative) Alternative form of conquian
    • That Christmas, Mama Evelyn had taught me how to play Konkan, an Iraqi variant of gin rummy that covertly doubles as a way to teach kids arithmetic.2018, Mona Hanna-Attisha, What the Eyes Don't See, A Story of Crisis, Resistance, and Hope in an American City, page 8

Proper noun capitalized: Konkan

Konkan

  1. A rugged section of the western coastline of India, including the districts of Maharashtra and Goa.

Forms of konkan

alternative formCokun
alternative formCuncan
alternative formCunkan
alternative formKokan

Origin of konkan

Ultimately from Sanskrit कोङ्कण (koṅkaṇa).

Questions about konkan

What does konkan mean?
Konkan means a rugged section of the western coastline of India, including the districts of Maharashtra and Goa.
What is konkan the alternative form of?
Konkan is the alternative form of conquian.
What part of speech is konkan?
Konkan can be a noun or a proper noun.

Words near konkan in the dictionary

  1. konjaku
  2. Konjengbam
  3. Konjščina
  4. konk
  5. konk out
  6. konkan
  7. Konkani
  8. Konkanis
  9. konked
  10. konked out
  11. konkee

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: konkan (page history and authors); Konkan (page history and authors); conquian (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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