can
Turkish
/dʒan/
noun
Definitions
- soul, life, being
- sweetheart
Etymology
Borrowed from Persian جان (soul, vital spirit, life) root from Proto-Indo-European *h₂enh₁- (breathe, blow).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*h₂enh₁-
Gloss
breathe, blow
Concept
Semantic Field
The body
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- overquick English
- quick English
- quick bread English
- quick-freeze English
- quick-sighted English
- quick-witted English
- quickbeam English
- quickdraw English
- quicken English
- quickhatch English
- quickie English
- quickish English
- quicklike English
- quicklime English
- quickly English
- quickness English
- quickplay English
- quicksand English
- quicksave English
- quickscope English
- quickselect English
- quicksighted English
- quicksilver English
- quicksmart English
- quicksome English
- quicksort English
- quickstart English
- quickstep English
- quickwater English
- quickwitted English
- quickwork English
- quicky English
- superquick English
- ultraquick English
- unquick English
- anima Latin
- animal Latin
- animatus Latin
- longanimem Latin
- ἆσθμα Ancient Greek
- *h₂enh₁- Proto-Indo-European
- *h₂enh₁mos Proto-Indo-European
- *h₂énh₁ti Proto-Indo-European
- *h₃emh₃- Proto-Indo-European
- *anadô Proto-Germanic
- *anadōną Proto-Germanic
- *anþijaną Proto-Germanic
- अन Sanskrit
- अन् Sanskrit
- अल्पप्राण Sanskrit
- प्राण Sanskrit
- महाप्राण Sanskrit
- quik Middle English
- जान Hindi
- جان Persian
- quik Ido
- Nurcan Turkish
- baba Turkish
- babacan Turkish
- canlı Turkish
- canlılık Turkish
- cansız Turkish
- cansızlık Turkish
- nur Turkish
- ainim Old Irish
- anál Old Irish
- жан Kazakh
- can Azerbaijani
- جان Ottoman Turkish
- *эр Proto-Turkic
- ჯანი Georgian
- জান Assamese
- *ana-ti̯o- Proto-Celtic
- *anaman Proto-Celtic
- *anatlā Proto-Celtic
- *wyaHnás Proto-Indo-Iranian
- йән Bashkir
- йәнһүрәт Bashkir
- جان Uighur, Uyghur
- HYA, yʾn' Middle Persian
- kwik Tok Pisin
- *aidn(i)- Proto-Albanian
- *anj Proto-Albanian
- *antā Proto-Albanian
- *wi- Proto-Iranian
- ջան Middle Armenian
- anāsk- Tocharian B
- añiye Tocharian B
- جان Sindhi