أذن

See also: إذن, اذن, آذن, أدن, and ادن

Arabic

Etymology 1

From Proto-Semitic *ʔuḏn- (ear). Cognate with Hebrew אוזן (ózen).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʔu.ðun/
  • (file)

Noun

أُذُن or أُذْن • (ʔuḏun or ʔuḏn) f (dual أُذُنَان (ʔuḏunān) or أُذْنَان (ʔuḏnān), plural آذَان (ʔāḏān))

  1. ear
  2. (singular only) listener(s)
    • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 9:61:
      وَيَقُولُونَ هُوَ أُذُنٌ قُلْ أُذُنُ خَيْرٍ لَكُمْ
      wayaqūlūna huwa ʔuḏunun qul ʔuḏunu ḵayrin lakum
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
  3. handle (of a cup)
Declension
Descendants
  • Egyptian Arabic: ودن (widn)
  • Gulf Arabic: اذون (aḏūn)
  • Maltese: widna
  • North Levantine Arabic: دينه (dayni) (from a diminutive)

Etymology 2

From the root ء ذ ن (ʔ-ḏ-n) of أُذُن (ʔuḏun, ear).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʔa.ði.na/

Verb

أَذِنَ • (ʔaḏina) I, non-past يَأْذَنُ‎ (yaʔḏanu)

  1. to listen
Conjugation

Verb

أَذِنَ • (ʔaḏina) I, non-past يَأْذَنُ‎ (yaʔḏanu)

  1. to give permission, to permit
    • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 7:123:
      قَالَ فِرْعَوْنُ آمَنْتُم بِهِ قَبْلَ أَنْ آذَنَ لَكُمْ
      qāla firʕawnu ʔāmantum bihī qabla ʔan ʔāḏana lakum
      Said Pharaoh, "You believed in him before I gave you permission."
Conjugation

Verb

أَذِنَ • (ʔaḏina) I, non-past يَأْذَنُ‎ (yaʔḏanu)

  1. to hear, to learn of, to be informed
Conjugation

Etymology 3

Denominal verb from أُذُن (ʔuḏun, ear).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʔa.ða.na/

Verb

أَذَنَ • (ʔaḏana) I, non-past يَأْذَنُ‎ (yaʔḏanu)

  1. to hurt (someone's) ear [+ لِ (object)] or [+ إِلَى (object)]
Conjugation

Etymology 4

From the same root as above.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʔað.ða.na/

Verb

أَذَّنَ • (ʔaḏḏana) II, non-past يُؤَذِّنُ‎ (yuʔaḏḏinu)

  1. to call
    1. to call to prayer
  2. to crow (of a rooster)
Conjugation
Derived terms
Descendants

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʔa.ðan/

Noun

أَذَن • (ʔaḏan) m

  1. verbal noun of أَذِنَ (ʔaḏina) (form I)
Declension

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʔaðn/

Noun

أَذْن • (ʔaḏn) m

  1. verbal noun of أَذَنَ (ʔaḏana) (form I)
Declension

References

  • Freytag, Georg (1830) “أذن”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 1, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, pages 22–23
  • Lane, Edward William (1863) “أذن”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate
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