اوان

Persian

Alternative forms

آوام‎ (âvâm)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

(Iranian Persian) IPA^(key): [æˈvɒn]

Noun

Iranian Persian	اوان
Dari	اوان
Tajik	авон (avon)

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

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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