Canaan

Etymology
Taken (at least as early as, 1382-1395, which has ) from , from , expanded from , from. The first vowel shifted from /aː/ to /eɪ/ in the ; 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,.

Proper noun

 * , roughly equivalent to Palestine.
 * 1) A grandson of Noah.
 * 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.
 * 1)   of biblical origin.
 * 1)   of biblical origin.

Translations

 * Afrikaans: Kanaän
 * Akkadian: 𒆠𒈾𒄴𒈾, 𒆠𒅔𒀀𒉌, 𒆠𒈾𒈾, 𒆠𒈾𒀭𒈾, 𒆠𒈾𒄴𒉌, 𒆠𒈾𒀪𒉌, 𒆠𒈾𒀪𒈾, 𒆠𒈾𒄴𒄭, 𒆠𒈾𒀪𒈾𒈾, 𒆠𒈾𒄿, 𒆠𒈾𒄭
 * Amharic: ከነዓን
 * Arabic:
 * Aramaic:
 * Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܟܢܥܢ
 * Armenian: Քանան
 * Asturian: Canaán
 * Azerbaijani: Kənan
 * Basque: Kanaan
 * Belarusian: Ханаа́н
 * Bengali: কেনান
 * Bulgarian: Ханаа́н
 * Carpathian Rusyn: Канаан
 * Catalan: Canaan
 * Chechen: КанӀан
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 迦南
 * Eastern Min: 迦南
 * Hakka: 迦南
 * Hokkien: 迦南
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: Kanan
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: Kanaano
 * Estonian: Kaanan
 * Finnish: Kanaan
 * French:
 * Galician: Canaán
 * Georgian: ქანაანი
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: Χαναάν
 * Hebrew: כְּנַעַן
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: Kanan
 * Italian: Cananea
 * Japanese: カナアン, カナン
 * Korean: 가나안
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Lao: ການາອານ
 * Latin: Chanaān
 * Latvian: Kanaāna
 * Lithuanian: Kanaanas
 * Malagasy: Kanaana
 * Malay: Kanaan
 * Maore Comorian: Kanani
 * Mongolian: Канаан
 * Navajo: Kéínan bikéyah
 * Old Armenian: երկիր Քանանու
 * Old Church Slavonic: ханаанъ
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Punjabi: ਕਨਾਨ
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: Ка̀наан
 * Roman:
 * Slovak: Kanaán
 * Slovene: Kanaan
 * Spanish: Canaán
 * Swahili: Kanaani
 * Swedish: Kanaan
 * Tajik: Канъон
 * Tamil:
 * Thai: คานาอัน
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: Ханаан
 * Urdu: کَنْعان
 * Uzbek: Kanʼon
 * Vietnamese: Ca-na-an
 * Volapük:
 * West Frisian: Kanaän
 * Yiddish: כּנען
 * Zazaki: Kenan


 * Armenian: Քանան
 * Bengali: কেনান
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 迦南
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech: Kenaan, Kanán
 * Hebrew: כְּנַעַן
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Malay: Kanaan
 * Navajo: Kéínan
 * Old Armenian: Քանան
 * Old Church Slavonic: ханаанъ
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Tajik: Канъон
 * Uzbek: Kanʼon
 * Yiddish: כּנען