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• kagan, kaghan, khaqan, qagan, qaghan, qaqan

Ultimately from Old Turkic 𐰴𐰍𐰣 (qaɣan). Doublet of khan.

• IPA(key): /kɑˈɡɑn/, /ˈkɑɡɑn/

khagan (plural khagans)

1. (historical) A khan of khans, a ruler of a khaganate; (the holder of) an imperial rank used among certain Turkic and Mongolian peoples, equal in status to an emperor.
   • 1988, Milorad Pavić, translated by Christina Pribićević-Zorić, Dictionary of the Khazars, Vintage, published 1989, page 69:
     As early as the year 740 A.D., one of the Khazar kaghans had turned to Constantinople for a missionary versed in Christian law.
   • 2007, Michael Chabon, Gentlemen of the Road, Sceptre, published 2008, page 52:
     "A kagan is the father, the mother and the lover of all his people. Nobody would lift a hand against him," said Hanukkah.

• khaganate

title of imperial rank

• Arabic: خَاقَان m (ḵāqān)

• Armenian: խաքան (hy) (xakʻan)

• Azerbaijani: xaqan

• Bactrian: καγανο (kagano)

• Bengali: খাকান (bn) (khakan)

• Bulgarian: кага́н m (kagán), хага́н m (hagán), хака́н (bg) m (hakán), кеха́н m (kehán)

• Catalan: kagan m

• Chinese:
  Mandarin: 可汗 (zh) (kèhán)

• Czech: kagan m

• Dutch: grootkan

• Finnish: suurkaani (fi)

• French: khagan (fr) m, grand khan m

• German: Khagan (de) m

• Hindi: ख़ाक़ान m (xāqān)

• Hungarian: kagán (hu)

• Japanese: 可汗 (ja) (かかん, kakan)

• Kazakh: қаған (qağan)

• Mongolian:
  Cyrillic: хаан (mn) (xaan)
  Mongolian script: ᠬᠠᠭᠠᠨ (qaɣan)

• Old Turkic: 𐰴𐰍𐰣 (qaɣan)

• Persian: خاقان (fa) (xâqân)

• Polish: kagan (pl) m

• Portuguese: khagan m

• Punjabi: ਖ਼ਾਕ਼ਾਨ m (xāqān)

• Russian: кага́н (ru) m (kagán)

• Spanish: jaghan m, gran jan m

• Tajik: хоқон (xoqon)

• Tibetan: please add this translation if you can

• Turkish: kağan (tr), hakan (tr)
  Ottoman Turkish: خاقان (hâkan)

• Urdu: خاقان m (xāqān)

• Uyghur: خاقان (xaqan)

• Vietnamese: khả hãn (vi) (可汗)

• kangha, khanga

khagan m (plural khagans)

1. khagan (title of imperial rank used by some Turkic and Mongolian peoples)