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Persian
Etymology 1
Suffix
ـون • (-un)
- suffix which forms agent nouns
- suffix which forms nouns indicating a continuous action; i.e. a gerund, an activity / a ceremony, or an agent noun
Derived terms
Etymology 2
Borrowed from Arabic ـُونَ (-ūna, nominative plural suffix). See ین (-in) for more.
Suffix
ـون • (-un, -yun)
- (dated, literary) Alternative form of ین (-in, plural suffix), used with nouns ending in ـی (-i)
- انقلابی (enqelâbi, “revolutionary”) + ـون → انقلابیون (enqelâbiyun, “revolutionaries”)
- ملی (melli, “nationalist”) + ـون → ملیون (melliyun, “nationalists”)
Further reading
- Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “ـون”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul
- Vullers, Johann August (1856–1864) “ـون”, in Lexicon Persico-Latinum etymologicum cum linguis maxime cognatis Sanscrita et Zendica et Pehlevica comparatum, e lexicis persice scriptis Borhâni Qâtiu, Haft Qulzum et Bahâri agam et persico-turcico Farhangi-Shuûrî confectum, adhibitis etiam Castelli, Meninski, Richardson et aliorum operibus et auctoritate scriptorum Persicorum adauctum (in Latin), volume II, Gießen: J. Ricker, page 1432b