keran

keran

1. accusative singular of kera

• kran (tap sense)

From Dutch kraan, from Middle Dutch crāne, from Old Dutch *crano, from Proto-Germanic *kranô, from Proto-Indo-European *gerh₂- (“to cry hoarsely”). Doublet of kran.

• IPA^(key): [kəˈran]
• Hyphenation: ke‧ran
• Rhymes: -ran

kêran (first-person possessive keranku, second-person possessive keranmu, third-person possessive kerannya)

1. tap, faucet.
2. (figurative) door.

   Synonym: pintu

• “keran” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) cf. Urak Lawoi' กรัด (“fireplace; kitchen”).

• IPA^(key): /kəran/
• Rhymes: -əran, -ran, -an
• (Johor-Riau) IPA^(key): [kəˈrän, -ɾän]

keran (Jawi spelling کرن, plural keran-keran, informal 1st possessive keranku, 2nd possessive keranmu, 3rd possessive kerannya)

1. portable stove
2. chafing dish
3. hearth

• → Bikol Central: kalan
• → Cebuano: kalan
• → Tagalog: kalan

• “keran” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.
• Blust, Robert & Stephen Trussell, Austronesian Comparative Dictionary – portable stove.
• Wilkinson, Richard James. An Abridged Malay-English Dictionary. Macmillan. 1965.

Borrowed from Armenian գերան (geran), Western Armenian pronunciation.

keran

1. (dialectal) log, beam

• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971–1979) “գերան”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press
• “keran”, in Türkiye'de halk ağzından derleme sözlüğü [Compilation Dictionary of Popular Speech in Turkey] (in Turkish), Ankara: Türk Dil Kurumu, 1963–1982