کونین

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic كَوْنَيْن (kawnayn), dual of كَوْن (kawn).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [kaw.ˈnajn]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [kʰäw.nǽjn]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [kʰäw.nǽjn]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [kʰäw.nǽjn]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [kʰäw.nǽjn]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [kʰow.ˈnejn]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [kʰäw.nǽjn]

Readings
Classical reading?	kawnayn
Dari reading?	kawnayn
Iranian reading?	kowneyn
Tajik reading?	kavnayn

Noun

کونین • (kowneyn)

1. (Islam) the two kinds of existence: the material world and the spiritual world
   • c. 1520, Selim I of the Ottoman Empire, edited by Benedek Péri, The Persian Dīvān of Yavuz Sulṭān Selīm, Budapest, Hungary: Research Centre for the Humanities, Eötvös Loránd Research Network, →ISBN, page 96:

     چنان خواهم سلیمی کز همه کونین باشم فرد
     میان عاشقان باری چنین مفرد کنم خود را

     čunān xwāham salīmī k-az hama kawnayn bāšam fard
     miyān-i āšiqān bārē čunīn mufrad kunam xwad rā

     I, Selim, desire to be solitary in all the two existences;
     In short, in the midst of lovers, I shall single myself out like this.

     (Classical Persian transliteration)

Further reading

• Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “کونین”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim