kapan.
trap
Meaning & usage
trap
Where this word comes from
Inherited from Ottoman Turkish قپان (kapan, “trap”), itself from Proto-Turkic *kapgan (“trap”), a development of *kap- (“to snatch, take; to bite”). By surface analysis, kap- + -an
A public weighing machine of the Ottoman era, or the office where the machine was located.
Where this word comes from
Inherited from Ottoman Turkish قپان (kapan), from Old Anatolian Turkish قپان, borrowed from Classical Persian قپان (qapān, qappān), from Arabic قبان (qabbān), from Byzantine Greek κάμπανος (kámpanos), γάμπανος (gámpanos), from Latin campāna.
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