干欄

Etymology
Probably a loanword; cf. Zhuang and etymologies therein. Possibilities include
 * From syllable-extending a source word with initial consonant cluster (**q-ran > *k-ran > Chinese /kɑn lɑn/); furthermore, the Old Chinese may have been a cognate rooted in the ancestral language (, and references therein).
 * Alternatively, the first syllable may have derived from a  prefixed to the "house" noun-stem in an early dialect of Zhuang.