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khan1

Syllabification: (khan)
Pronunciation: /kän/
Definition of khan

noun

  • a title given to rulers and officials in central Asia, Afghanistan, and certain other Muslim countries.
  • any of the successors of Genghis Khan, supreme rulers of the Turkish, Tartar, and Mongol peoples and emperors of China in the Middle Ages.

Derivatives

khanate

Pronunciation: /ˈkänāt/
noun

Origin:

late Middle English: from Old French chan, medieval Latin canus, caanus, from Turkic ḵān 'lord, prince'

khan in other Oxford dictionaries

Definition of khan in the British & World English dictionary