Kahn

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  1. 1
    A surname from German.

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louis isadore kahn

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"Kahn, a University of Pennsylvania professor, taught at Yale part-time — when he wasn't designing other icons of modernism, including the Kimbell Museum of Art in Texas, the Indian Institute of Management, and Bangladesh's parliament building — as well as another museum for Yale, the Center for British Art."

Etymology

* As a north German surname, from Low German Kane (“small boat”), from Middle Low German kāne, from Old Saxon *kano, from Proto-West Germanic *kanō, from Proto-Germanic *kanô (“vessel, boat”). * Also as a north German surname, from a short form of Kahnert, a variant of Konrad. * Among Jews, a Germanicised form of Cohen.

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