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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.