kağan.
A title of imperial rank in Turkic and Mongolic languages, ruler of a khaganate; khagan.
Meaning & usage
A title of imperial rank in Turkic and Mongolic languages, ruler of a khaganate; khagan.
Where this word comes from
Inherited from late Ottoman Turkish قاغان (kağan), ultimately from Old Turkic 𐰴𐰍𐰣 (k¹g¹n¹ /qaġan, xaġan/), from Proto-Turkic *kagan. Cognates with Mongolian ᠬᠠᠭᠠᠨ (qaɣan), Kazakh қаған (qağan), Kyrgyz каган (kagan), Southern Altai каан (kaan), Tatar каган (qağan), Uyghur قاغان (qaghan), Uzbek xoqon. Doublet of han and hakan.
Try it on your idea.
kağan has 5 characters. Say it out loud, try it alongside a description of your project, and see whether its meaning fits what you want to create.
These are naming prompts. Meanings and pronunciation can vary; existing brand and domain uses have not been checked.
Explore the name generatorA word with a source.
Definitions, grammatical labels, IPA, etymology and examples: Wiktionary contributors, extracted by Kaikki / Wiktextract. Adapted under CC BY-SA 4.0. Selected fields and authored examples are shown; third-party quotations and audio are omitted. See contributor history.
Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.