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𐰴𐰣

kān

Meaning:
blood

Medical and Buddhist texts treat blood as one of the seven bodily constituents.

Examples

Translations

German:
Blut
Russian:
кровь
Turkish (Azerbaijan):
qan
Turkish (Türkiye):
kan

Bibliography 5

  • Hendrik Boeschoten (2022) A dictionary of early middle Turkic
    p. 235a, s.v. qan (complete entry)
  • Dr. Jens Wilkens (2021) Handwörterbuch des Altuigurischen | Eski Uygurcanın El Sözlüğü
    pp. 327b–328a, s.v. 1 kan (complete entry and subentries)
  • Sergei Starostin, Anna Dybo, Oleg Mudrak (2003) Etymological Dictionary of the Altaic Languages
    p. 797, s.v. *k῾i̯ā́no (complete containing entry)
  • Gerard Clauson (1972) An etimological dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish
    pp. 629b–630a, s.v. 1 ka:n (complete entry)
  • M Räsänen, I Kecskeméti (1969) Versuch eines etymologischen Wörterbuchs der Türksprachen
    p. 230a, s.v. kān (complete entry)