Kazan

Kazan

See also: kazan, kazán, kazań, Kazań, Kazán, and Kazaň

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Russian Каза́нь (Kazánʹ), from Tatar казан (qazan), from Proto-Turkic *kaŕgan (“cauldron”).

Proper noun

Kazan

1. The capital and largest city of the Republic of Tatarstan, Russia.
2. (historical) the Khanate of Kazan, a Tatar Turkic state that occupied the territory of former Volga Bulgaria between 1438 and 1552.

Derived terms

• Kazanian

Translations

city in Russia

Arabic: قَازَان‎ m (qāzān), قَزَان‎ m (qazān) Armenian: Կազան (hy) (Kazan) Belarusian: Каза́нь f (Kazánʹ) Bulgarian: Каза́н (Kazán) Chinese: Mandarin: 喀山 (zh) (Kāshān) Chuvash: Хусан (Hus̬an) Czech: Kazaň (cs) f Danish: Kazan Esperanto: Kazano Finnish: Kazan (fi) French: Kazan (fr) m Georgian: ყაზანი (q̇azani) German: Kasan (de) n Greek: Καζάν (el) (Kazán) Hebrew: קאזאן‎ Hindi: कज़ान (kazān) Italian: Kazan' Japanese: カザン (Kazan) Korean: 카잔 (Kajan) Kumyk: Къазан (Qazan) Lak: Къазан (Q:azan) Latin: Casanum, Kazanum Macedonian: Казањ m (Kazanj) Manchu: ᡴᠠᠰᠠᠨ (kasan) Mongolian: Казань (Kazanʹ) Ottoman Turkish: قازان‎ (Kazan) Persian: قازان‎ Polish: Kazań (pl) m Portuguese: Cazã Russian: Каза́нь (ru) f (Kazánʹ) Serbo-Croatian: Казањ, Казан, Kazanj (sh), Kazan Slovak: Kazaň Spanish: Kazán (es) m Swedish: Kazan Tatar: Казан (Qazan), Qazan, قازان‎, قزان‎ Thai: คาซาน (kaa-saan) Turkish: Kazan (tr) Ukrainian: Каза́нь f (Kazánʹ) Urdu: قازان‎ Vietnamese: Kazan Written Oirat: ᡍᠠᠴᠠᠨ (xazan)

Etymology 2

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.

Proper noun

Kazan (plural Kazans)

1. A surname.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Kazan is the 39052^nd most common surname in the United States, belonging to 564 individuals. Kazan is most common among White (91.31%) individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Kazan”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 2, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 285.