أذن

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See also: إذن, اذن, آذن, أدن, and ادن

Arabic

آذَان

Etymology 1.1

From Proto-Semitic *ʔuḏn- (ear). Cognate with Hebrew אוזן (ózen).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʔu.ðun/
  • Audio:(file)

Noun

أُذُن or أُذْن (ʔuḏun or ʔuḏnf (dual أُذُنَان (ʔuḏunān) or أُذْنَان (ʔuḏnān), plural آذَان (ʔāḏān))

  1. ear
  2. (singular only) listener(s)
    • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 9:61:
      وَيَقُولُونَ هُوَ أُذُنٌ قُلْ أُذُنُ خَيْرٍ لَكُمْ
      wayaqūlūna huwa ʔuḏunun qul ʔuḏunu ḵayrin lakum
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
  3. handle (of a cup)
Declension
Descendants
  • Egyptian Arabic: ودن (widn)
  • Gulf Arabic: اذون (aḏūn)
  • Maltese: widna
  • North Levantine Arabic: دينه (dayni) (from a diminutive)
  • North Levantine Arabic: دانة (dāne)
  • North Levantine Arabic: إدن (ʾidn)

Etymology 1.2

أَذَن

From the root ء ذ ن (ʔ-ḏ-n) of أُذُن (ʔuḏun, ear).

Pronunciation

Verb

أَذِنَ (ʔaḏina) I (non-past يَأْذَنُ (yaʔḏanu), verbal noun أَذَن (ʔaḏan))

  1. to listen
Conjugation

Verb

أَذِنَ (ʔaḏina) I (non-past يَأْذَنُ (yaʔḏanu), verbal noun إِذْن (ʔiḏn) or أَذِين (ʔaḏīn))

  1. to give permission, to permit
    • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 7:123:
      قَالَ فِرْعَوْنُ آمَنْتُم بِهِ قَبْلَ أَنْ آذَنَ لَكُمْ
      qāla firʕawnu ʔāmantum bihī qabla ʔan ʔāḏana lakum
      Said Pharaoh, "You believed in him before I gave you permission."
Conjugation

Verb

أَذِنَ (ʔaḏina) I (non-past يَأْذَنُ (yaʔḏanu), verbal noun إِذْن (ʔiḏn) or أَذَن (ʔaḏan) or أَذَان (ʔaḏān) or أَذَانَة (ʔaḏāna))

  1. to hear, to learn, to be informed
Conjugation

Verb

أَذِنَ (ʔaḏina) I (non-past يَأْذَنُ (yaʔḏanu), verbal noun أَذَن (ʔaḏan))

  1. to have big ears
Conjugation

Etymology 1.3

Denominal verb from أُذُن (ʔuḏun, ear).

Pronunciation

Verb

أَذَنَ (ʔaḏana) I (non-past يَأْذَنُ (yaʔḏanu), verbal noun أَذْن (ʔaḏn))

  1. to hurt (someone's) ear
Conjugation

Etymology 1.4

From the same root as above.

Pronunciation

Verb

أَذَّنَ (ʔaḏḏana) II (non-past يُؤَذِّنُ (yuʔaḏḏinu), verbal noun تَأْذِين (taʔḏīn) or أَذَان (ʔaḏān))

  1. to call
    1. to call to prayer
  2. to crow (of a rooster)
Conjugation
Derived terms
Descendants

Etymology 1.5

Pronunciation

Noun

أَذَن (ʔaḏanm

  1. verbal noun of أَذِنَ (ʔaḏina) (form I)
Declension

Etymology 1.6

Pronunciation

Noun

أَذْن (ʔaḏnm

  1. verbal noun of أَذَنَ (ʔaḏana) (form I)
Declension

References

  • Freytag, Georg (1830) “أذن”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 1, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, pages 22–23
  • Lane, Edward William (1863) “أذن”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate