כנען

Uncertain. Suggested to be from a West Semitic root from the base verb *kanaʕ- (“to be low, humble, subjugated”), Hebrew כָּנַע (kānaʕ), Aramaic כְּנַע (kənaʕ, “to bend, to kneel”), Arabic قَنَعَ (qanaʕa, “to beg”), Ge'ez አቅንዐ (ʾäḳnəʿä, “to arrange”), which could have been used in contrast with אֲרַם (“Aram”) with the latter derived from a word for highlands.^[1][2] Compare Phoenician 𐤊𐤍𐤏𐤍 (knʿn), Arabic كَنْعَانُ (kanʕānu). More at Canaan.

The medieval Jewish use of "Canaan" as a name for Slavic people was attested as early as the 10th century CE, from Sefer Yosippon, in a chart of Noah's descendants which claimed that Slavic people were descended from Canaan.

• (Modern Israeli Hebrew) IPA^(key): /k(e).ˈna.ʔan/
• (Tiberian Hebrew) IPA^(key): /kă.ˈna.ʕan/

כְּנַעַן • (k'ná'an) m

1. (biblical) Canaan (a grandson of Noah)
2. (biblical) Canaan, the land inhabited by Canaan: the Land of Canaan.
3. (Medieval Hebrew) the Slavs; Slavic lands

(sense 3)

• אדום (term referring to Christian countries)
• ישמעאל (term referring to Muslim countries)

• כְּנַעֲנִי

• H3667 in Strong, James (1979), Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Katz, Dovid (2014). Knaanic in the Medieval and Modern Scholarly Imagination
• Leslau, Wolf (1979), Etymological Dictionary of Gurage, volume 3, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 485
• “knˁ”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–