kapan

“kapan” is a Turkish word. Its 2 meanings in English:

noun

trap
A public weighing machine of the Ottoman era, or the office where the machine was located.

Etymology

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish قپان (kapan, “trap”), itself from Proto-Turkic *kapgan (“trap”), a development of *kap- (“to snatch, take; to bite”). By surface analysis, kap- + -an

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