hazan

hazan (plural hazans or hazanim)

1. Alternative form of hazzan.
   • 2007 October 7, Jon Meacham, “A Nation of Christians Is Not a Christian Nation”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     When George Washington was inaugurated in New York in April 1789, Gershom Seixas, the hazan of Shearith Israel, was listed among the city’s clergymen (there were 14 in New York at the time) — a sign of acceptance and respect.

• IPA^(key): (Navarro-Lapurdian) /has̻an/ [ha.s̻ãn]

• Hyphenation: ha‧zan

hazan

1. Third-person singular (hark), taking informal second-person singular (hi) as direct object, present subjunctive form of izan.

   Synonym: hazala

Linguistically, this verb form can be seen as belonging to the reconstructed citation form ezan instead of izan.

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish خزان (hazan), from Classical Persian خزان (xazān).

hazan (definite accusative hazanı, plural hazanlar)

1. (rare) autumn, fall

   Synonyms: sonbahar, güz