ـون

Persian

Etymology 1

Suffix

ـون • (-un)

1. suffix which forms agent nouns
2. suffix which forms nouns indicating a continuous action; i.e. a gerund, an activity / a ceremony, or an agent noun

Derived terms

Persian terms suffixed with ـون

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Arabic ـُونَ (-ūna, nominative plural suffix). See ین (-in) for more.

Suffix

ـون • (-un, -yun)

1. (dated, literary) Alternative form of ین (-in, plural suffix), used with nouns ending in ـی (-i)

   ‎انقلابی (enqelâbi, “revolutionary”) + ‎ـون → ‎انقلابیون (enqelâbiyun, “revolutionaries”)

   ‎ملی (melli, “nationalist”) + ‎ـون → ‎ملیون (melliyun, “nationalists”)

Further reading

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “ـون”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul
• Vullers, Johann August (1856–1864) “ـون”, in Lexicon Persico-Latinum etymologicum cum linguis maxime cognatis Sanscrita et Zendica et Pehlevica comparatum, e lexicis persice scriptis Borhâni Qâtiu, Haft Qulzum et Bahâri agam et persico-turcico Farhangi-Shuûrî confectum, adhibitis etiam Castelli, Meninski, Richardson et aliorum operibus et auctoritate scriptorum Persicorum adauctum‎^[1] (in Latin), volume II, Gießen: J. Ricker, page 1432b