かがん

See also: かかん

Japanese

Etymology 1

For pronunciation and definitions of かがん – see the following entries.
【河岸】
[noun] synonym of かわぎし (kawagishi, “riverside; riverbank”)
(This term, かがん (kagan), is the hiragana spelling of the above term.)

(The following entries do not have a page created for them yet: 可汗, 過雁.)

Etymology 2

/kaɡami/ → /kaɡaɴ/

Shift from standard 鏡 (kagami), dropping the final vowel and keeping the nasal. (Can this(+) etymology be sourced?)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ka̠ɡã̠ɴ]

Noun

かがん • (kagan) 

  1. (Kagoshima dialect) 鏡: a mirror (smooth reflecting surface)

Okinawan

Noun

かがん (kagan) 

  1. 鏡: mirror
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