kazan

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kazanmak

(transitive) to win, gain, acquire
(transitive) to earn, get, achieve, obtain

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish

Cognate with Karakhanid

Cognate with Chuvash

Cognate with Hungarian

Cognate with Kazakh

Cognate with Bashkir

In summary

From Vulgar Ottoman Turkish قزان (qazan), from قزغان (qazğan), from Proto-Turkic *kaŕgan. Compare Karakhanid قَزْغانْ (qazɣān, “excavated, dug out”), Chuvash хуран (huran, “boiler”), Hungarian harang, Kazakh қазан (qazan), Bashkir ҡаҙан (qaźan). Perhaps ultimately derived from Proto-Turkic *kaŕ- (“to dig, scrape, plane”), for which see kaz-.