آن

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See also: ان, أن, إن, اَِنْ, -ان, and ان-

Arabic

Etymology 1

Belonging to the family ء ن ي (ʔ-n-y), “to come or draw near”, “to be at or present”, “to happen or occur“, “to come to a point in time”. Related to هُنَا (hunā, here, in this place; then, now, at this point), أَنْ (ʔan, that, that before us presently), إِن (ʔin, if possible; having the possibility to occur or happen, a chance of coming to be before us, of presenting itself), إِنَّ (ʔinna, surely; now surely, now indeed), and أَيْنَ (ʔayna, where, at which place). Related cognates with Akkadian 𒀭𒉡 (annu, now; see, look), Hebrew אָנָה ('ána, whither, to where), Ugaritic 𐎀𐎐 (ản, where, at which place, to which point), Classical Syriac ܐܢ (ʾān, where, at a place; until when, how long).

Pronunciation

Noun

آن (ʔānm

  1. time
    Synonyms: وَقْت (waqt), حِين (ḥīn), أَوَان (ʔawān)
Declension
Derived terms
Descendants
  • Kurdish:
    Central Kurdish: ئان (an), عان ('an)
    Southern Kurdish: ئان (an)
  • Persian: آن (ân, moment)
    Uyghur: ئان (an, moment, instant)
  • Turkish: an

Etymology 2

See above.

Verb

آنَ (ʔāna) I (non-past يَئِينُ (yaʔīnu), verbal noun أَيْن (ʔayn))

  1. to come, to near (said of time)
    Synonyms: حَانَ (ḥāna), أَنَى (ʔanā)
Conjugation

Old Anatolian Turkish

Etymology 1

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *ol, whence also اُولْ (ol).

Pronoun

آنْ (an)

  1. he, she, it (third person singular pronoun)

Usage notes

آنْ (an) is the oblique case variant of اُولْ (ol).

Descendants

Reflexives of the merger with اُولْ (ol):

  • Azerbaijani: (plural and oblique stem) on-
  • Gagauz: (plural and oblique stem) on-
  • Ottoman Turkish: (plural and oblique stem) اونـ (on-)
    • Turkish: (plural and oblique stem) on-

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Arabic آن (ʔān)

Noun

آنْ (ʔān).

  1. moment
Descendants
  • Azerbaijani: an
  • Gagauz: an
  • Ottoman Turkish: آن (an)
    • Turkish: an

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Arabic آن (ʔān).

Noun

آن (an) (definite accusative آنی)

  1. moment
    بر آن اولbir an evvelas soon as possible

Descendants

  • Turkish: an

References

  • Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), “an 1”, in The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN
  • Kélékian, Diran (1911) “آن”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 38

Persian

Dari آن
Iranian Persian
Tajik он

Pronunciation

Readings
Classical reading? ān
Dari reading? ān
Iranian reading? ân
Tajik reading? on

Homophone: او (colloquial Dari)

  • Audio (Iran):(file)

Etymology 1

From Middle Persian 𐭠𐭭 (ān, that, he).[1]

Determiner

آن (ân)

  1. that
  2. those

Pronoun

آن (ân) (plural آن‌ها, human plural آنان)

  1. that
  2. it
  3. he, she
    Synonyms: او (u), وی (vey, literary formal), ایشان (išân, honorific), ایشون (išun, honorific colloquial)
See also

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Arabic آن (ʔān)

Noun

آن (ân)

  1. moment
  2. breath

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

آن (ân)

  1. (dialectal) Alternative form of دهان (dahân, mouth)

References

  1. ^ MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “ān”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 8

Punjabi

Verb

آݨ (āṇ)

  1. inflection of آݨا (āṇā):
    1. oblique infinitive
    2. second-person singular polite future subjunctive
    3. third-person plural future subjunctive