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ون

See also: ـون

Arabic

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Suffix

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ـُونَ • (-ūna) m

  1. Nominative-case suffix used to pluralize nouns and adjectives, generally masculine ones referring to people. The suffix changes to ـِينَ (-īna) in the genitive and accusative cases.
  2. -ty

Usage notes

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  • This suffix is mostly restricted to participles, nisbas, and certain nouns of other building types such as the measure فَعَّال (faʕʕāl). Only a handful of nouns not referring to people use this suffix, e.g. سِنُونَ (sinūna) from سَنة (sana, “year”). Most other nouns have broken plurals or use the “feminine” suffix ـَات (-āt). Note that borrowed nouns tend to use the latter even when they refer to people, e.g. بَهْلَوانَات (bahlawānāt) from بَهْلَوان (bahlawān, “acrobat”).

Derived terms

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terms derived using ـُونَ (multiples of ten)

Ottoman Turkish

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Etymology

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Perhaps from or related to Persian ون (van, “ash tree”).

Noun

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ون • (ven)

  1. fruit of the turpentine tree

Further reading

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Persian

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Etymology 1

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Borrowed from English van.

Noun

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ون • (van) (plural ون‌ها (van-hâ))

  1. van

Etymology 2

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Probably from Mazanderani [Term?]., from Middle Persian wn' (/⁠wan⁠/, “tree”), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *wán- (“tree, wood”).

Noun

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ون • (van)

  1. (archaic) ash tree

Further reading

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  • Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “ون”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul
  • Vullers, Johann August (1856–1864) “ون”, 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[2] (in Latin), volume II, Gießen: J. Ricker, page 1432b
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