Wakan
[ˈwɑːkən]Meaning
a Lakota word meaning "powerful" or "sacred"
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Wakan is a Lakota word meaning "powerful" or "sacred". It is also the original Dakota name for the Rum River of Minnesota, and a variant name of Wakan Tanka, the Lakota "Great Spirit". The same spelling appears in Wakan, a village in Oman, and in the Japanese word wakan (和館), the Korean reading of which is waegwan.
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