أوان

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Arabic

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Middle Persian (ʾwʾm), (ʾʾwʾm /⁠āwām⁠/, space of time; epoch; occasion), from Old Persian *abigāmā f (time), from 𐎠𐎲𐎡𐎹 (abi-, towards) + Proto-Indo-European *gem- (to press, to grasp). Also borrowed in إِبَّان (ʔibbān).

Noun

أَوَان (ʔawānm (plural آوِنَة (ʔāwina))

  1. particular time, timeframe, occasion, time that has come or is due
Declension

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

Noun

أَوَانٍ (ʔawāninm pl

  1. plural of إِنَاء (ʔināʔ)

References

  • Asbaghi, Asya (1988) Persische Lehnwörter im Arabischen (in German), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, →ISBN, pages 1, 30, 31
  • Freytag, Georg (1830) “أوان”, 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, page 72
  • Lane, Edward William (1863) “أوان”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, page 129
  • Wehr, Hans (1979) “اني”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN