اوان

Persian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Reborrowed from Arabic أَوَان (ʔawān), from Middle Persian ʾwʾm, ʾʾwʾm (āwām, “time, space of time; age, epoch; point of time, occasion”).

Pronunciation

Noun
Dari اوان
Iranian Persian
Tajik авон

اوان • (avân) (plural اوان‌ها (avân-hâ))

  1. time, season

References
  • Durkin-Meisterernst, Desmond (2004) “ʾwʾm”, in A Dictionary of Manichaean Middle Persian and Parthian (Corpus Fontium Manichaeorum; 3.1), Turnhout: Brepols
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