فن

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See also: فت, قب, and قن

Arabic

Etymology

From Classical Persian پند (pand, knack, trick). Semantic development resembles Ancient Greek τέχνη (tékhnē) and Latin ars.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fann/
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Noun

فَنّ (fannm (plural فُنُون (funūn) or أَفْنَان (ʔafnān) or أَفَانِين (ʔafānīn))

  1. genre
    اَلْغَزَلُ فَنٌّ مِنْ فُنُونِ الشِّعْرِ
    al-ḡazalu fannun min funūni aš-šiʕri
    The ghazal is a genre of poetry.
    (literally, “The ghazal is a genre from among the genres of poetry.”)
  2. art
  3. (archaic) knack, trick, artifice
  4. (obsolete) quarrel, ruffle, trouble
    • a. 800, أبو زيد سعيد بن أوس الأنصاري [ʔabū zayd saʕīd ibn ʔaws al-ʔanṣārīy], كتاب النوادر [Buch der Seltenheiten]:
      Fleischer, Heinrich Leberecht (1888) Kleinere Schriften (in German), volume 3, Leipzig: S. Hirzel, pages 483–484:
      لَأَجْعَلَنْ لِإْبْنَةِ عَمْرٍو فَنَّا … حَتَّى يَكُونَ مَهْرُهَا دُهْدُنَّا
      laʔajʕalan liʔibnati ʕamrin fannā … ḥattā yakūna mahruhā duhdunnā
      Verily I will cause a dispute about ʕamr’s daughter … so her marriage portion will be vain
  5. (obsolete) adornment, decoration, embellishment
  6. (archaic) sort, species, type
  7. (obsolete) state, condition, case

Declension

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Egyptian Arabic: فن (fann)
  • Azerbaijani: fənn
  • Bashkir: фән (fən)
  • Hausa: fannī̀
  • Kazakh: пән (pän)
  • Ottoman Turkish: فن (fenn)
  • Persian: فن (fann)
  • Swahili: fani
  • Turkish: fen
  • Uyghur: پەن (pen)
  • Uzbek: fan

Verb

فَنَّ (fanna) I (non-past يَفُنُّ (yafunnu), verbal noun فَنّ (fann)) (obsolete)

  1. to cheat, to defraud, to finesse
  2. to cause trouble to, to weary, to embarrass
  3. to adorn, to decorate, to embellish

Conjugation

Egyptian Arabic

Etymology

From Arabic فَنّ (fann).

Pronunciation

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Noun

فن (fannm

  1. art

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic فَنّ (fann, art), itself from Classical Persian پند (pand, knack, trick).

Noun

فن (fenn) (definite accusative فنی (fenni), plural فنون (fünun) or افنان (efnân))

  1. kind, sort, type, variety, a class of entities that have common characteristics such that they may be grouped together
    Synonyms: جنس (cins), چشید (çeşid), صنف (sınf, sınıf), صوی (soy), نوع (nevʼ)
  2. art, the conscious production or arrangement of various elements in a manner that affects the senses and emotions
    Synonyms: صنعت (sanʼat, zanʼat), هنر (hüner)

Derived terms

  • فنی (fennî, related to art)

Descendants

Further reading

Persian

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Arabic فَنّ (fann), from Persian پند (pand, knack, trick).

Pronunciation

Readings
Classical reading? fan, fann
Dari reading? fan, fann
Iranian reading? fan, fann
Tajik reading? fan, fann

Noun

فن (fann) (plural فن‌ها (fann-hâ) or فنون (fonun))

  1. technique; method
    Synonym: تکنیک (teknik)
    فنون روایتfonun-e revâyatnarrative techniques
    فنون نفوذfonun-e nofuzinfiltration methods
    فنون ماهیگیریfonun-e mâhigirifishing methods
  2. trick; ruse

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English fan.

Pronunciation

Readings
Iranian reading? fan

Noun

فن (fan) (plural فن‌ها (fan-hâ))

  1. industrial fan; blower
  2. Synonym of پنکه (panke, electrical fan (used in houses)).

Etymology 3

Borrowed from English fan, short for fanatic.

Pronunciation

Readings
Iranian reading? fan

Noun

فن (fan) (plural فن‌ها (fan-hâ))

  1. fan (strong supporter)
    Synonym: هوادار (havâdâr)

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian فن (fan), from Arabic فَنّ (fann), from earlier Persian پند (pand).

Pronunciation

Noun

فَن (fanm (Hindi spelling फ़न)

  1. art, craft, skill
  2. trick, deception, artifice

References

  • فن”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  • فن”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary , Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.