אן
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Arabic
Conjunction
אן • (transliteration needed)
- Judeo-Arabic spelling of أَنْ (ʔan)
- c. 10th century, Saadia Gaon, Tafsir, Genesis 1:3:
- ושא אללה אן יכון נור פכאן נור׃
- wa-šāʔa llāhu ʔan yakūna nūrun fakāna nūrun.
- And God willed there to be light, and then there was light.
Conjunction
אן • (transliteration needed)
- Judeo-Arabic spelling of أَنَّ (ʔanna)
Conjunction
אן • (transliteration needed)
- Judeo-Arabic spelling of إِنْ (ʔin, “if”)
Particle
אן • (transliteration needed)
- Judeo-Arabic spelling of إِنَّ (ʔinna)
- c. 10th century, Saadia Gaon, Tafsir, Exodus 10:1:
- תׄם קאל אללה למוסי אדכׄל אלי פרעון פאני קד קוית קלבה וקלב קואדה לכי אחל אפאתי הדׄה בהם׃
- ṯumma qāla llāhu limūsā dḵul ʾilā firʿawna faʾinnī qad qawwaytu qalbahu waqalba quwwādihi likay ʾuḥilla ʾāfātī hāḏihi bahum.
- Then God said to Moses: Come to Pharaoh for I have just strengthened his heart and the heart of his commanders so that I might set upon them these my plagues.
Aramaic
Etymology
From Proto-Semitic *šim.
Pronunciation
Conjunction
אן • (transliteration needed)
Hebrew
Etymology
From Biblical Hebrew אָוֶן (āwen), from Egyptian jwnw (“Heliopolis”)
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Proper noun
אֹן • (on)
- Heliopolis
- Tanach, Genesis 41:45, with translation of Aryeh Kaplan:
- וַיִּקְרָא פַרְעֹה שֵׁם־יוֹסֵף צָפְנַת פַּעְנֵח וַיִּתֶּן־לוֹ אֶת־אָסְנַת בַּת־פּוֹטִי פֶרַע כֹּהֵן אֹן לְאִשָּׁה וַיֵּצֵא יוֹסֵף עַל־אֶרֶץ מִצְרָיִם׃
- vay-yiqra far'óh shem yoséf tsafnát pa'néaḥ vay-yitten lo et asənat bat poṭi féra' kohen on le-ishá vay-yetsé yoséf 'al érets mitsráyim.
- Pharaoh gave Joseph the name Tzaphnath Paaneach. He gave him Asenath, daughter of Poti Phera, the priest of On, as a wife. Joseph thus went out to oversee Egypt.
Further reading
Anagrams
Mozarabic
Etymology
Inherited from Latin in. Compare Portuguese em, Spanish en.
Preposition
אן (ʔn)
- in
Yiddish
Determiner
אן • (an)
- (nonstandard) Unpointed form of אַן (an).
Preposition
אן • (on)
- (nonstandard) Unpointed form of אָן (on).