گون

Azerbaijani

Noun

گون (gün) (definite accusative گونو (günü), plural گونلر (günlər))

1. Arabic spelling of gün (“day”)

Declension

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology 1

From Proto-Turkic *kün (“sun, day”).

Noun

گون • (gün)

1. day
2. sun

   Synonyms: شمش (şems), گونش (güneş), آفتاب (aftab)

Derived terms

• گون چیچكی (gün çiçeği, “sunflower”)

Descendants

• Turkish: gün

Etymology 2

From Common Turkic *kȫn (“tanned skin, leather”).

Noun

گون • (gön)

1. hide, leather

Descendants

• Turkish: gön
• → Bulgarian: гьон (gjon)
• → Macedonian: ѓон (ǵon)
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: ђо̏н

  Latin script: đȍn

Etymology 3

From Classical Persian گون (gūn).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɟuːn/

Noun

گون • (gûn) (uncommon)

1. colour

   Synonyms: بویا (boya), رنك (renk)

2. sort, kind

Etymology 4

From Classical Persian گون (gavan).

Noun

گون • (geven)

1. milkvetch

Descendants

• Turkish: geven
• → Armenian: գեւեն (gewen)

References

• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “گون”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, pages 1060b–1061a
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “گون”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, columns 4094–4095

Persian

Etymology 1

From Middle Persian (gwn' /⁠gōn⁠/, “colour, complexion”), from Proto-Iranian *gauna (“hair; color”), perhaps related to Sanskrit गुण (guṇa, “thread, cord”), with further origin beyond Indo-Iranian uncertain.

Possibly from the BMAC substrate. Alternatively, from Proto-Indo-European *gow-no-m (“something curved or vaulted”), from *gew- (“to curve”).

Akin to Avestan 𐬔𐬀𐬊𐬥𐬀 (gaona, “colour”), Pashto غونه (γūna, “colour”), Ossetian хъуын (qwyn, “hair”). Old Armenian գոյն (goyn) is an Iranian borrowing.

Pronunciation

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Noun

گون • (gun)

1. (usually in compounds) colour

   Synonym: رنگ (rang)

2. kind, type, species

   Synonym: نوع (now')

   • c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume I, verse 269:

     هر دو گون آهو گیا خوردند و آب
     زین یکی سرگین شد و ز ان مشک ناب

     har du gōn āhū giyā xwardand u āb
     z-īn yakē sargēn šud u z-ān mušk-i nāb

     Both species of deer ate grass and drank water: from this one came dung, and from that one pure musk.

     (Classical Persian transliteration)

3. manner, fashion, mode

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Apparently گو (gaw, “cow”) with suffix as hinted at گرزن (garzan, “crown”).

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Pronunciation

Noun

گون • (gavan)

2. milkvetch

References

Further reading

• MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “gōn”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “گون”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul
• Vullers, Johann August (1856–1864) “گون”, 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 1056

Ushojo

Noun

گون (gon)

1. smell
2. bad smell
3. a cut trunk of a tree