See also: جوان

Arabic

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Etymology 1

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Root
خ و ن (ḵ w n)
7 terms

Adjective

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خَوَّان (ḵawwān) (feminine خَوَّانَة (ḵawwāna), masculine plural خَوَّانُونَ (ḵawwānūna), feminine plural خَوَّانَات (ḵawwānāt))

  1. unreliable, faithless, disloyal, treacherous, perfidious
  2. traitorous
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Etymology 2

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From Middle Persian hw’n' (xwān, tray, table). Compare Classical Persian خوان (xwân, table, tablecloth).

Noun

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خُوَان or خِوَان (ḵuwān or ḵiwānm (plural أَخْوِنَة (ʔaḵwina) or أَخَاوِين (ʔaḵāwīn))

  1. table, particularly such one as is fit for dining
    Synonyms: مَائِدَة (māʔida), طَاوِلَة (ṭāwila), مِنْضَدَة (minḍada)
    • 7th century CE, Ṣaḥīḥ al-Buḵāriyy, 70:14:
      مَا عَلِمْتُ النَّبِيَّ —صَلَّى اللَّٰهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ— أَكَلَ عَلَى سُكُرُّجَةٍ قَطُّ، وَلَا خُبِزَ لَهُ مُرَقَّقٌ قَطُّ، وَلَا أَكَلَ عَلَى خِوَانٍ
      mā ʕalimtu n-nabiyya —ṣallā llāhu ʕalayhi wasallama— ʔakala ʕalā sukurrujatin qaṭṭu, wa-lā ḵubiza la-hū muraqqaqun qaṭṭu, wa-lā ʔakala ʕalā ḵiwānin
      I never knew the Prophet—may God bless him and grant him peace—to ever eat from a side-dish plate, or to eat crumbled bread, or to eat at a table.
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Descendants
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  • Tigre: ክዋና (kəwana, elevated sleeping-spot of a shepherd)

Etymology 3

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Adjective

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خُوَّان (ḵuwwānm pl

  1. masculine plural of خَائِن (ḵāʔin)

Noun

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خُوَّان (ḵuwwānm pl

  1. plural of خَائِن (ḵāʔin)

Ottoman Turkish

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Etymology 1

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From Persian خوان (xvân, table, tablecloth).

Noun

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خوان (han, hon)

  1. a large tray which serves as a table, board where viands are processed or eaten
  2. meal, food, victuals

Etymology 2

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From Persian خوان (xân, read).

Adjective

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خوان (han)

  1. (in compounds) reading, who recites
    قرآن خوانKur'an hanQuran reader

Pashto

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Etymology

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From Persian خوان (xvân).

Noun

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خوان (xwânm

  1. a large tray which serves as a table

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Persian

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Etymology 1

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From Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (hw’n' /⁠xwān⁠/, tray, table). Compare Avestan 𐬓𐬀𐬌𐬥𐬌 (xᵛaini, cover, carpet) and Old Armenian խան (xan), an Iranian borrowing.

Pronunciation

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Readings
Classical reading? xwān
Dari reading? xān
Iranian reading? xân
Tajik reading? xon

Noun

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Dari خوان
Iranian Persian
Tajik хон

خوان (xân)

  1. table or large tray particularly such one as is fit for dining
  2. (dated) tablecloth
Derived terms
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Descendants
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  • Middle Armenian: խօն (xōn)
    Urdu: خوان (xān or xvān, tray)

Etymology 2

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Verb

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خوان (xvân)

  1. present stem form of خواندن (xvândan, to read)

References

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  • Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “خوان”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul
  • MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “hw’n'”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 95
  • Nourai, Ali (2011) An Etymological Dictionary of Persian, English and other Indo-European Languages, page 530