/keuh zan", -zahn"/ ; for 2 also Russ. /ku zahn"/ , n.
1. Elia /i luy"euh, eel"yeuh/ , born 1909, U.S. film and stage director and novelist, born in Turkey.
2. a city in and capital of the Tatar Autonomous Republic in the SE Russian Federation in Europe, near the Volga River. 993,000.