Persian edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

Reborrowed from Arabic أَوَان (ʔawān), from Middle Persian ʾwʾm, ʾʾwʾm (āwām, time, space of time; age, epoch; point of time, occasion).

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

Dari اوان
Iranian Persian
Tajik авон

اوان (avân) (plural اوان‌ها (avân-hâ))

  1. time, season

References edit

  • Durkin-Meisterernst, Desmond (2004) “ʾwʾm”, in A Dictionary of Manichaean Middle Persian and Parthian (Corpus Fontium Manichaeorum; 3.1), Turnhout: Brepols