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kazan

name · noun · 7 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

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  • CMU ARPABET: K EY1 Z AH0 N Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

name

Meaning 1

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

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

name

Meaning 2

A former governate in Russia, existing from 1708 to 1920. Capital: Kazan.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: historical

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3

name

Meaning 3

the Khanate of Kazan, a Tatar Turkic state that occupied the territory of former Volga Bulgaria between 1438 and 1552.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: historical

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4

name

Meaning 4

A surname.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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5

noun

Meaning 5

a cauldron or cooking pot used in Central Asian cuisine

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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6

noun

Meaning 6

an industrial city in the European part of Russia

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

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Broader terms: city, metropolis, urban center

7

noun

Meaning 7

United States stage and screen director (born in Turkey) and believer in method acting (1909-2003)

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: Elia Kazan, Elia Kazanjoglous

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: director, theater director, theatre director

History

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian Каза́нь (Kazánʹ).

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.

Borrowed from Russian каза́н (kazán), from a Turkic language. Cognate with Azerbaijani qazan, Kazakh қазан (qazan), Turkish kazan, Uzbek qozon.

Across languages

Translations

94 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Abkhaz: Ҟазан (Qʼazan) — city in Russia
  • Amharic: ካዛን (kazan) — city in Russia
  • Arabic: قَازَان (qāzān) — city in Russia
  • Arabic: قَزَان (qazān) — city in Russia
  • Armenian: Կազան — city in Russia
  • Azerbaijani: Kazan — city in Russia
  • Bashkir: Ҡазан (Qazan) — city in Russia
  • Belarusian: Каза́нь (Kazánʹ) — city in Russia
  • Bengali: কাজান (kajan) — city in Russia
  • Bulgarian: Каза́н (Kazán) — city in Russia
  • Burmese: ကာဇန် (kajan) — city in Russia
  • Chinese Mandarin: 喀山 (Kāshān) — city in Russia
  • Chuvash: Хусан (Hus̬an) — city in Russia
  • Crimean Tatar: Qazan — city in Russia
  • Czech: Kazaň — city in Russia
  • Danish: Kazan — city in Russia
  • Dutch: Kazan — city in Russia
  • Esperanto: Kazano — city in Russia
  • Finnish: Kazan — city in Russia
  • French: Kazan — city in Russia
  • Galician: Kazán — city in Russia
  • Georgian: ყაზანი (q̇azani) — city in Russia
  • German: Kasan — city in Russia
  • Greek: Καζάν (Kazán) — city in Russia
  • Hebrew: קאזאן (kazan) — city in Russia
  • Hindi: कज़ान (kazān) — city in Russia
  • Hungarian: Kazany — city in Russia
  • Italian: Kazan' — city in Russia
  • Japanese: カザン — city in Russia
  • Kalmyk: Хазн (Xazn) — city in Russia
  • Written Oirat: ᡍᠠᠴᠠᠨ (xazan) — city in Russia
  • Kazakh: Қазан (Qazan) — city in Russia
  • Khakas: Хазан (Xazan) — city in Russia
  • Komi-Permyak: Козань (Kozań) — city in Russia
  • Korean: 카잔 (Kajan) — city in Russia
  • Kumyk: Къазан (Qazan) — city in Russia
  • Central Kurdish: کازان (kazan) — city in Russia
  • Central Kurdish: قازان (qazan) — city in Russia
  • Northern Kurdish: Kazan — city in Russia
  • Kyrgyz: Казан — city in Russia
  • Lak: Къазан (Q:azan) — city in Russia
  • Latin: Casanum — city in Russia
  • Latin: Kazanum — city in Russia
  • Latvian: Kazaņa — city in Russia
  • Lithuanian: Kazanė — city in Russia
  • Macedonian: Казањ (Kazanj) — city in Russia
  • Malayalam: കസാൻ (kasāṉ) — city in Russia
  • Manchu: ᡴᠠᠰᠠᠨ (kasan) — city in Russia
  • Marathi: कझान (kajhān) — city in Russia
  • Eastern Mari: Озаҥ (Ozaŋ) — city in Russia
  • Mongolian: Казань (Kazanʹ) — city in Russia
  • Nogai: Казан — city in Russia
  • Pashto: کازان (kāzān) — city in Russia
  • Persian: قازان (qâzân) — city in Russia
  • Persian: کازان (kâzân) — city in Russia
  • Persian: غازان (ġâzân) — city in Russia
  • Polish: Kazań — city in Russia
  • Portuguese: Cazã — city in Russia
  • Romanian: Kazan — city in Russia
  • Russian: Каза́нь (Kazánʹ) — city in Russia
  • Serbo-Croatian: Казањ — city in Russia
  • Serbo-Croatian: Казан — city in Russia
  • Serbo-Croatian: Kazanj — city in Russia
  • Serbo-Croatian: Kazan — city in Russia
  • Sicilian: Kazan' — city in Russia
  • Slovak: Kazaň — city in Russia
  • Upper Sorbian: Kazań — city in Russia
  • Spanish: Kazán — city in Russia
  • Swedish: Kazan — city in Russia
  • Tajik: Қазон (Qazon) — city in Russia
  • Tamil: கசான் (kacāṉ) — city in Russia
  • Tatar: Казан (Qazan) — city in Russia
  • Thai: คาซาน (kaa-saan) — city in Russia
  • Turkish: Kazan — city in Russia
  • Ottoman Turkish: قازان — city in Russia
  • Turkmen: Kazan — city in Russia
  • Turkmen: Gazan — city in Russia
  • Udmurt: Кузон (Kuzon) — city in Russia
  • Ukrainian: Каза́нь (Kazánʹ) — city in Russia
  • Urdu: قازان (qāzān) — city in Russia
  • Uyghur: قازان (qazan) — city in Russia
  • Uzbek: Qozon — city in Russia
  • Veps: Kazanʹ — city in Russia
  • Vietnamese: Kazan — city in Russia
  • Welsh: Kazan’ — city in Russia
  • Yakut: Казан — city in Russia
  • Yakut: Каһаан (Kahaan) — city in Russia
  • Hungarian: kazán — cauldron or cooking pot
  • Hungarian: bogrács — cauldron or cooking pot
  • Hungarian: üst — cauldron or cooking pot
  • Hungarian: kotla — cauldron or cooking pot
  • Macedonian: ка́зан (kázan) — cauldron or cooking pot
  • Russian: каза́н (kazán) — cauldron or cooking pot
  • Turkish: kazan — cauldron or cooking pot
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