آن

• Rhymes: -aːn

Belonging to the family ء ن ي‎ (ʔ-n-y), “to come or draw near”, “to be at or present”, “to happen or occur“, “to come to a point in time”. Related to هُنَا‎ (hunā, “here, in this place; then, now, at this point”), أَنْ‎ (ʔan, “that, that before us presently”), إِن‎ (ʔin, “if possible; having the possibility to occur or happen, a chance of coming to be before us, of presenting itself”), إِنَّ‎ (ʔinna, “surely; now surely, now indeed”), and أَيْنَ‎ (ʔayna, “where, at which place”). Related cognates with Akkadian 𒀭𒉡 (annu, “now; see, look”), Hebrew אָנָה‎ ('ána, “whither, to where”), Ugaritic 𐎀𐎐 (ản, “where, at which place, to which point”), Classical Syriac ܐܢ‎ (ʾān, “where, at a place; until when, how long”).

آن • (ʔān) m

1. time

   Synonyms: وَقْت‎ (waqt), حِين‎ (ḥīn), أَوَان‎ (ʔawān)

• Kurdish:

  → Central Kurdish: ئان‎ (an), عان‎ ('an)

  → Southern Kurdish: ئان‎ (an)

• → Persian: آن‎ (ân, “moment”)

  → Uyghur: ئان‎ (an, “moment, instant”)

• → Turkish: an

See above.

آنَ • (ʔāna) I, non-past يَئِينُ‎‎ (yaʔīnu)

1. to come, to near (said of time)

   Synonyms: حَانَ‎ (ḥāna), أَنَى‎ (ʔanā)

From Arabic آن‎ (ʔān).

آن • (an) (definite accusative آنی‎)

1. moment

   بر آن اول ― bir an evvel ― as soon as possible

• Turkish: an

• Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), “an 1”, in The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN
• Kélékian, Diran (1911), “آن”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 38

• Audio (Iran)

  (file)

From Middle Persian 𐭠𐭭‎ (ān, “that, he”).[1]

آن • (ân)

1. that

آن • (ân) (plural آن‌ها‎, human plural آنان‎)

1. that
2. it
3. he, she

   Synonyms: او‎ (u), وی‎ (vey, literary formal), ایشان‎ (išân, honorific), ایشون‎ (išun, honorific colloquial)

From Arabic آن‎ (ʔān)

آن • (ân)

1. moment
2. breath
3. (dialectal) mouth