Canaan

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Alternative forms

Etymology

Taken (at least as early as Wycliffe's Bible, 1382-1395, which has Chanaan) from Ecclesiastical Latin Chanaān,^[1] from Ancient Greek Χαναάν (Khanaán), expanded from Χνᾶ (Khnâ), from Hebrew 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/.^[2]^[3]

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈkeɪnən/, /ˈkeɪneɪən/, /ˈkeɪniən/
Rhymes: -eɪniən

Proper noun

Canaan

A historical region in the Middle East, roughly equivalent to Palestine.
(biblical) A grandson of Noah.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 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.
(rare) A male given name from Hebrew of biblical origin.
The name of multiple places in North America named after the historic region, including:
1. A town in Litchfield County, Connecticut, United States.
2. A number of townships in the United States, listed under Canaan Township.

Derived terms

Translations

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 (ar) (kanʕān)
Aramaic:
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܟܢܲܥܢ (knaˁn)
Armenian: Քանան (Kʻanan)
Asturian: Canaán
Azerbaijani: Kənan
Basque: Kanaan
Belarusian: Ханаа́н m (Xanaán)
Bengali: কেনান (kenan)
Bulgarian: Ханаа́н m (Hanaán)
Carpathian Rusyn: Канаан (Kanaan)
Catalan: Canaan m
Chechen: Канӏан (Kanˀan)
Chinese:
Cantonese: 迦南 (gaa¹ naam⁴)

Eastern Min: 迦南 (Giă-nàng)

Hakka: 迦南 (Kâ-nàm)

Hokkien: 迦南 (Ka-lâm)

Mandarin: 迦南 (zh) (Jiānán)
Czech: Kanaán (cs)
Danish: Kanan
Dutch: Kanaän (nl)
Esperanto: Kanaano
Estonian: Kaanan
Finnish: Kanaan
French: Canaan (fr)
Galician: Canaán
Georgian: ქანაანი (kanaani)
German: Kanaan (de) m
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)
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: Kenan (ku) f
Lao: ການາອານ (kā nā ʼān)
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 Kʻananu)
Old Church Slavonic: ханаанъ m (xanaanŭ)
Persian: کنعان (fa) (kan'ân)
Polish: Kanaan (pl) m
Portuguese: Canaã (pt)
Punjabi: ਕਨਾਨ (kanān)
Russian: Ханаа́н (ru) m (Xanaán)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: Ка̀наан m

Roman: Kànaan (sh) m
Slovak: Kanaán
Slovene: Kanaan
Spanish: Canaán
Swahili: Kanaani
Swedish: Kanaan
Tajik: Канъон (Kanʾon)
Tamil: கானான் (ta) (kāṉāṉ)
Thai: คานาอัน (kaa-naa-an)
Turkish: Kenan (tr)
Ukrainian: Ханаан m (Xanaan)
Urdu: کَنْعان m (kanʻān)
Uzbek: Kanʼon
Vietnamese: Ca-na-an
Volapük: Kanaän (vo)
West Frisian: Kanaän
Yiddish: כּנען m (knaan)
Zazaki: Kenan

grandson of Noah

Armenian: Քանան (Kʻanan)
Bengali: কেনান (kenan)
Chinese:
Cantonese: 迦南 (gaa¹ naam⁴)

Mandarin: 迦南 (zh) (Jiānán)
Czech: Kenaan m, Kanán m
Hebrew: כְּנַעַן m (k'ná'an)
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: Kenan (ku) m
Malay: Kanaan
Navajo: Kéínan
Old Armenian: Քանան (Kʻanan)
Old Church Slavonic: ханаанъ m (xanaanŭ)
Portuguese: Canaã (pt)
Russian: Ханаан (ru) m (Xanaan)
Tajik: Канъон (Kanʾon)
Uzbek: Kanʼon
Yiddish: כּנען m (knaan)

References

^ “Canaan”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022., which (incorrectly) dates the borrowing to the early 1600s
^ Joseph Thomas, Thomas Baldwin, A Complete Pronouncing Gazetteer, Or, Geographical Dictionary (1880), page 361: "Canaan, kà´nạn or kà´nạ-an, a name applied in Scripture to the Promised Land of the Israelites." (The addition of 1868, page 349, has "CANAAN, ká´nạn or ká´nạ-an, a name applied in Scripture to the 'Promised Land'".) This corresponds to /ˈkeɪ.nən/, /ˈkeɪ.nə.æn/. George Walter Baynham, Baynham's Elocution, select readings (1883), page 11, says "Pronounce the vowel sound as in fat: — Canaan, banian, tapestry, […] ".
^ John Walker, A Key to the Classical Pronunciation of Greek, Latin, and Scripture (1807), page 232 (re the pronunciation with three syllables existing and being accented on the antepenult) and page 174 (re Milton using it with two syllables).

Anagrams

Caanan

[1] “Canaan”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022., which (incorrectly) dates the borrowing to the early 1600s

[2] Joseph Thomas, Thomas Baldwin, A Complete Pronouncing Gazetteer, Or, Geographical Dictionary (1880), page 361: "Canaan, kà´nạn or kà´nạ-an, a name applied in Scripture to the Promised Land of the Israelites." (The addition of 1868, page 349, has "CANAAN, ká´nạn or ká´nạ-an, a name applied in Scripture to the 'Promised Land'".) This corresponds to /ˈkeɪ.nən/, /ˈkeɪ.nə.æn/. George Walter Baynham, Baynham's Elocution, select readings (1883), page 11, says "Pronounce the vowel sound as in fat: — Canaan, banian, tapestry, […] ".

[3] John Walker, A Key to the Classical Pronunciation of Greek, Latin, and Scripture (1807), page 232 (re the pronunciation with three syllables existing and being accented on the antepenult) and page 174 (re Milton using it with two syllables).

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