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khaganate

noun · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

Meaning 1

An empire comprising several khanates.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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History

Etymology

Etymology tree English khagan Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Italic *-tus Latin -tus, -tūs Latin -ātusder. English -ate English khaganate From khagan + -ate (forms denoting rank or office, the concrete charge of it).

Across languages

Translations

20 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Arabic: خَاقَانِيَّة (ḵāqāniyya) — an empire comprising several khanates
  • Armenian: խաքանություն (xakʻanutʻyun) — an empire comprising several khanates
  • Azerbaijani: xaqanlıq — an empire comprising several khanates
  • Estonian: kaganaat — an empire comprising several khanates
  • Greek: χαγανάτο (chaganáto) — an empire comprising several khanates
  • Greek: χανάτο (chanáto) — an empire comprising several khanates
  • Hindi: ख़ाक़ानियत (xāqāniyat) — an empire comprising several khanates
  • Hungarian: kaganátus — an empire comprising several khanates
  • Kazakh: қағандық (qağandyq) — an empire comprising several khanates
  • Kyrgyz: кагандык (kagandık) — an empire comprising several khanates
  • Persian: خاقانِیَت (xāqāniyat) — an empire comprising several khanates
  • Polish: kaganat — an empire comprising several khanates
  • Punjabi: ਖ਼ਾਕ਼ਾਨੀਅਤ (xāqānīata) — an empire comprising several khanates
  • Russian: кагана́т (kaganát) — an empire comprising several khanates
  • Turkish: kağanlık — an empire comprising several khanates
  • Ottoman Turkish: خاقانلق (hakanlık) — an empire comprising several khanates
  • Ukrainian: кагана́т (kahanát) — an empire comprising several khanates
  • Urdu: خاقانِیَت (xāqāniyat) — an empire comprising several khanates
  • Uyghur: خاقانلىق (xaqanliq) — an empire comprising several khanates
  • Uzbek: xoqonlik — an empire comprising several khanates
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