خون

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Arabic

Root
خ و ن (ḵ-w-n)

Verb

خَوَّنَ (ḵawwana) II, non-past يُخَوِّنُ‎ (yuḵawwinu)

  1. to regard as faithless, to regard as disloyal, to regard as false, to regard as treacherous, to regard as traitorous, to regard as perfidious, to regard as dishonest, to regard as unreliable
  2. to call faithless, to call disloyal, to be false, to be treacherous, to be perfidious, to call false, to call treacherous, to call perfidious, to call dishonest, to call unreliable
  3. to accuse of betrayal, to accuse of disloyalty
  4. to charge with treason, to charge with treachery
  5. to distrust, to mistrust
  6. to two-time

Conjugation

Noun

خَوْن (ḵawnm

  1. verbal noun of خَانَ (ḵāna) (form I)
  2. being disloyal, being faithless, being false, being treacherous, being perfidious
  3. acting disloyally, acting treacherously, acting perfidiously
  4. betraying
  5. cheating, duping, hoodwinking
  6. forsaking, deserting, letting down
  7. failing, breaking (a promise)

Declension

References

Persian

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Etymology

From Middle Persian 𐭣𐭬𐭩𐭠 (dmyʾ /⁠xōn⁠/), also 𐫑𐫇𐫗 (k̇wn /⁠xōn⁠/), from Proto-Iranian *wahūnī.

Cognate with Bakhtiari خین (xīn), Northern Luri خی (xi), Baluchi ہون (hūn), Northern Kurdish xwîn, Central Kurdish خوێن (xwên), Southern Kurdish خۊن (xün) or خوین (xuyn), Zazaki gonî, Gurani ۋنی (ʋinī) or هوون (hūn), Parthian 𐭂𐭅𐭇𐭍 (gwḥn /⁠gōxn⁠/), Sivandi فین (fīn), Harzani and Karingani وون (vūn), Sogdian (γwrn /⁠xurn⁠/) or (wγrn /⁠wuxrn, uxarn⁠/), Yagnobi вахм (vaxm), Pashto وینه (wina) and Avestan 𐬬𐬊𐬵𐬎𐬥𐬀 (vohuna).

Pronunciation

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Readings
Classical reading? xūn
Dari reading? xūn
Iranian reading? xun
Tajik reading? xun

Noun

Dari خون
Iranian Persian
Tajik хун

خون (xun)

  1. blood

Descendants

  • Azerbaijani: xun
  • Bengali: খুন (khun)
  • Hindustani:
    Hindi: ख़ून (xūn)
    Urdu: خون (xūn)
  • Maithili: खून (khūn)
  • → Punjabi:

References

  • Bläsing, Uwe (1997) “Irano-Turcica: Westiranisches Wortgut im türkeitürkischen Dialektmaterial”, in Studia Etymologica Cracoviensia (in German), number 2, § 37, pages 102–103
  • Cathcart, Chundra Aroor (2015) Iranian Dialectology and Dialectometry (PhD dissertation), Berkeley: University of California at Berkeley, pages 33, 93
  • Horn, Paul (1893) Grundriss der neupersischen Etymologie (in German), Strasbourg: K.J. Trübner, § 511, page 113
  • Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, pages 1171–1172

Urdu

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Alternative forms

Etymology

First attested in c. 1564 as Middle Hindi خون (xūn), from Classical Persian خون (xūn). Cognate with Pashto وینه (wina).

Pronunciation

Noun

خُون (xūnm (Hindi spelling ख़ून)

  1. blood
    Synonyms: لہو (lahū), رکت (rakt)
  2. (figurative) murder
  3. (figurative) relationship
    family; progeny
  4. (loosely) blame, sin (of a crime)

Declension

Declension of خون
singular plural
direct خُون (xūn) خُون (xūn)
oblique خُون (xūn) خُونوں (xūnō̃)
vocative خُون (xūn) خُونو (xūnō)

Derived terms

Further reading

  • خون”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  • خون”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary , Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
  • Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “خون”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.