haçan

Azerbaijani

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Cyrillic		هاچان
Abjad		һачан

Etymology

From Old Anatolian Turkish قَاچَانْ (qaçan). Cognate with Turkmen haçan.

Pronunciation

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• IPA^(key): [ˈhɑt͡ʃɑn]

Adverb

haçan

1. (interrogative) when?

   Siz haçan gəlmisiniz? ― When did you arrive?

Synonyms

• nə vaxt
• havaxt

See also

Azerbaijani interrogative pro-forms

English	Azerbaijani
what	nə, (dialectal) nəmənə
who	kim
which	hansı
which (in a numbered series)	neçənci
who (by occupation)	nəçi
who (by origin)	haralı
where (which place)	hara, hayan, (colloquial) hanı, (dialectal) həncəri
where (at which place)	harada, hayanda
whither (to which place)	hara, haraya, hayana
whence (from which place)	haradan, hayandan
when	nə vaxt, nə zaman, haçan, (colloquial) havaxt
why	niyə, nə üçün, neyçün
how	necə, nətər, nə təhər, (archaic) nə tövr, nə cür, (dialectal) həncəri
how much	nə qədər
how many	neçə

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish هاچان (haçan), from older قاچان (kaçan), from Old Anatolian Turkish قَاچَانْ (qaçan).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [hɑt͡ʃɑn]
• Hyphenation: ha‧çan

Adverb

haçan (dialectal)

1. (interrogative) when?

   Synonyms: ne vakit, ne zaman

2. now that, since

   Synonym: mademki

3. (used interjectionally) how quickly, so quickly, what a short time

   Synonym: ne çabuk

   haçan gidip geldin ― [it's amazing] how quickly you went [there] and came [back]

Turkmen

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *ka-. Cognate with Azerbaijani and Turkish haçan.

Adverb

haçan

1. (interrogative) when?