Kazan

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

English

Etymology 1

Etymology tree

Russian Каза́нь (Kazánʹ)bor.

English Kazan

Borrowed from Russian Каза́нь (Kazánʹ).

Proper noun

Kazan

2. The capital and largest city of the Republic of Tatarstan, Russia.
4. (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

• Abkhaz: Ҟазан (Qʼazan)
• Amharic: ካዛን (kazan)
• Arabic: قَازَان m (qāzān), قَزَان m (qazān)
• Armenian: Կազան (hy) (Kazan)
• Azerbaijani: Kazan (az)
• Bashkir: Ҡазан (Qazan)
• Belarusian: Каза́нь f (Kazánʹ)
• Bengali: কাজান (kajan)
• Bulgarian: Каза́н (Kazán)
• Burmese: ကာဇန် (kajan)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 喀山 (zh) (Kāshān)

• Chuvash: Хусан (Hus̬an)
• Crimean Tatar: Qazan
• Czech: Kazaň (cs) f
• Danish: Kazan
• Dutch: Kazan
• Esperanto: Kazano
• Finnish: Kazan (fi)
• French: Kazan (fr) m
• Galician: Kazán
• Georgian: ყაზანი (q̇azani)
• German: Kasan (de) n
• Greek: Καζάν (el) (Kazán)
• Guarani:

  Paraguayan Guarani: ^{(please verify)} Kasã

• Hebrew: קאזאן (kazan)
• Hindi: कज़ान (kazān)
• Hungarian: Kazany (hu)
• Italian: Kazan'
• Japanese: カザン (Kazan)
• Kalmyk: Хазн (Xazn)

  Written Oirat: ᡍᠠᠴᠠᠨ (xazan)

• Kazakh: Қазан (kk) (Qazan)
• Khakas: Хазан (Xazan)
• Komi:

  Komi-Permyak: Козань (Kozań)

• Korean: 카잔 (Kajan)
• Kumyk: Къазан (Qazan)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: کازان (kazan), قازان (ckb) (qazan)

  Northern Kurdish: Kazan

• Kyrgyz: Казан (ky) (Kazan)
• Lak: Къазан (Q:azan)
• Latin: Casanum, Kazanum
• Latvian: Kazaņa
• Lithuanian: Kazanė
• Macedonian: Казањ m (Kazanj)
• Malayalam: കസാൻ (kasāṉ)
• Manchu: ᡴᠠᠰᠠᠨ (kasan)
• Marathi: कझान (kajhān)
• Mari:

  Eastern Mari: Озаҥ (Ozaŋ)

• Mongolian: Казань (Kazanʹ)
• Nogai: Казан (Kazan)
• Pashto: کازان (kāzān)
• Persian: قازان (qâzân), کازان (kâzân), غازان (ġâzân)
• Polish: Kazań (pl) m
• Portuguese: Cazã
• Romanian: Kazan
• Russian: Каза́нь (ru) f (Kazánʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian: Казањ, Казан, Kazanj (sh), Kazan
• Sicilian: Kazan'
• Slovak: Kazaň
• Sorbian:

  Upper Sorbian: Kazań

• Spanish: Kazán (es) m
• Swedish: Kazan
• Tajik: Қазон (Qazon)
• Tamil: கசான் (kacāṉ)
• Tatar: Казан (Qazan)

  Kryashen: Казан (Qazan)

• Thai: คาซาน (kaa-saan)
• Turkish: Kazan (tr)

  Ottoman Turkish: قازان (Kazan)

• Turkmen: Kazan, Gazan
• Udmurt: Кузон (Kuzon)
• Ukrainian: Каза́нь f (Kazánʹ)
• Urdu: قازان (qāzān)
• Uyghur: قازان (qazan)
• Uzbek: Qozon
• Veps: Kazanʹ
• Vietnamese: Kazan
• Welsh: Kazan’
• Yakut: Казан (Kazan), Каһаан (Kahaan)

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: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 285.

Japanese

Romanization

Kazan

1. Rōmaji transcription of かざん