خون

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Arabic

Root
خ و ن (ḵ w n)
7 terms

Verb

خَوَّنَ (ḵawwana) II (non-past يُخَوِّنُ (yuḵawwinu), verbal noun تَخْوِين (taḵwīn))

  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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Alternative forms

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

    Readings
    Classical reading? xūn
    Dari reading? xūn
    Iranian reading? xun
    Tajik reading? xun
    • Audio (Iran):(file)

    Noun

    Dari خون
    Iranian Persian
    Tajik хун

    خون (xun)

    1. blood

    Descendants

    • Judeo-Tat: xun
    • Tajik: хун (xun)
    • Azerbaijani: xun
    • Bengali: খুন (khun)
    • Middle Hindi: خون (xvn /⁠xūn⁠/)
    • Maithili: khūn
      Devanagari script: खून
      Tirhuta script: 𑒐𑒴𑒢
    • Punjabi: xūn

    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 (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, pages 1171–1172

    Urdu

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    Alternative forms

    Etymology

      Borrowed from Classical Persian خُون (xūn). First attested in c. 1564 as Middle Hindi خون (xvn /⁠xūn⁠/).[1]

      Pronunciation

      Noun

      خُون (xūnm (Hindi spelling ख़ून)

      1. blood
        Synonyms: لَہُو (lahū), رَکْت (rakt)
      2. murder, killing
        Synonym: قَتْل (qatl)
      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 (xūnõ)
      vocative خُون (xūn) خُونو (xūno)

      Derived terms

      References

      1. ^ خون”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.

      Further reading