Canaan

English

===Alternative forms

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• Chanaan
• Caanan

===Etymology

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Taken (at least as early as Wycliffe's Bible, 1382-1395, which has Chanaan) from Ecclesiastical Latin Chanaān, from Антички Грчки Χαναάν (Khanaán), expanded from Χνᾶ (Khnâ), from Хебрејски כְּנַעַן‎ (k'ná'an). The first vowel shifted from /aː/ to /eɪ/ in the Great Vowel Shift; at least as early as Milton (1660s), the word could already be pronounced with two syllables, though at least as late as the 1880s it could also be pronounced with three, /ˈkeɪ.nə.æn/.

===Pronunciation

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• МФА^(кључ): /ˈkeɪnən/

===Proper noun

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Canaan

1. , roughly equivalent to Palestine.
2. A grandson of Noah.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), imprinted at London: By Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Genesis 10:15-18:

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     And Canaan begat Sidon his first born, and Heth, and the Jebusite, and the Amorite, and the Girgasite, and the Hivite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite, and the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite: and afterward were the families of the Canaanites spread abroad.

3. (rare) A male given name from Hebrew of biblical origin.
4. The name of multiple places in North America named after the historic region, including:
   1. .

====Derived terms

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• Canaanite

====Translations

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historic region

• Afrikaans: Kanaän
• Akkadian: 𒆠𒈾𒄴𒈾 (ki-na-aḫ-na), 𒆠𒅔𒀀𒉌 (ki-na-a-ni), 𒆠𒈾𒈾 (ki-na-na), 𒆠𒈾𒀭𒈾 (ki-na-an-na), 𒆠𒈾𒄴𒉌 (ki-na-aḫ-ni), 𒆠𒈾𒀪𒉌 (ki-na-a'-ni), 𒆠𒈾𒀪𒈾 (ki-na-a'-na), 𒆠𒈾𒄴𒄭 (ki-na-aḫ-ḫi), 𒆠𒈾𒀪𒈾𒈾 (ki-na-a'-na-na), 𒆠𒈾𒄿 (ki-na-i), 𒆠𒈾𒄭 (ki-na-ḫi)
• Amharic: ከነዓን (känäʿan)
• Arabic: كَنْعَان‎ (kanʿān)
• Aramaic:

  Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܟܢܥܢ‎

• Armenian: Քանան (Kʿanan)
• Asturian: Canaán
• Azerbaijani: Kənan
• Basque: Kanaan
• Belarusian: Ханаа́н m (Xanaán)
• Bulgarian: Ханаа́н m (Hanaán)
• Catalan: Canaan m
• Chechen: КанӀан (Kanʿan)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 迦南 (gaa¹ naam⁴)

  Hakka: 迦南 (Kâ-nàm)

  Mandarin: 迦南 (zh) (Jiānán)

  Min Dong: 迦南 (Giă-nàng)

  Min Nan: 迦南 (Ka-lâm)

• Czech: Kanaán (cs)
• Danish: Kanan
• Dutch: Kanaän (nl)
• Esperanto: Kanaano
• Estonian: Kaanan
• Finnish: Kanaan
• French: Canaan (fr)
• Galician: Canaán
• Georgian: ქანაანი (kanaani)
• Greek: Χαναάν (el) f (Chanaán)

  Ancient: Χαναάν f (Khanaán)

• Hebrew: כְּנַעַן‎ m (k'ná'an)
• Hungarian: Kánaán (hu)
• Icelandic: Kanan
• Italian: Cananea
• Japanese: カナアン (Kana-an), カナン (Kanan)
• Korean: 가나안 (ganaan)
• Lao: ການາອານ (kā nā ’ān)
• Latin: Chanaān f (indeclinable)
• Latvian: Kanaāna
• Lithuanian: Kanaanas
• Malagasy: Kanaana
• Malay: Kanaan
• Maore Comorian: Kanani
• Mongolian: Канаан (Kanaan)
• Navajo: Kéínan bikéyah
• Old Armenian: երկիր Քանանու (erkir Kʿananu)
• Persian: کنعان‎ (fa) (kan'ân)
• Polish: Kanaan (pl) m
• Portuguese: Canaã (pt)
• Punjabi: ਕਨਾਨ (kanān)
• Russian: Ханаа́н (ru) m (Xanaán)
• Rusyn: Канаан (Kanaan)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Ка̀наан m

  Roman: Kànaan (sh) m

• Slovak: Kanaán
• Slovene: Kanaan
• Spanish: Canaán
• Swahili: Kanaani
• Swedish: Kanaan
• Tamil: கானான் (ta) (kāṉāṉ)
• Thai: คานาอัน
• Turkish: Kenan (tr)
• Ukrainian: Ханаан m (Xanaan)
• Volapük: Kanaän (vo)
• West Frisian: Kanaän
• Yiddish: כּנען‎ m (knaan)
• Zazaki: Kenan

grandson of Noah

• Armenian: Քանան (Kʿanan)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 迦南 (gaa¹ naam⁴)

  Mandarin: 迦南 (zh) (Jiānán)

• Czech: Kenaan m, Kanán m
• Hebrew: כְּנַעַן‎ m (k'ná'an)

• Malay: Kanaan
• Navajo: Kéínan
• Old Armenian: Քանան (Kʿanan)
• Russian: Ханаан (ru) m (Xanaan)
• Yiddish: כּנען‎ m (knaan)

===References

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===Anagrams

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• Caanan ^{(alphagram aaacnn)}