ع و ن

Originally meaning to ripen or mature, later to help something attain fullness or completion; hence aid in a general sense.

ع و ن • (ʕ-w-n)

1. to mature, to ripen
2. to supply what is needed to mature
3. to help to accomplish or to be carried out fully

Verbs and verb derivatives

• Form I: عَانَ‎ (ʕāna, “to become middle-aged, to mature”)
  • Active participle: عَائِن‎ (ʕāʔin)
  • Passive participle: مَعُون‎ (maʕūn)
• Form II: عَوَّنَ‎ (ʕawwana, “to support, to maintain; to give financial backing, to supply”)
  • Verbal noun: تَعْوِين‎ (taʕwīn)
  • Active participle: مُعَوِّن‎ (muʕawwin)
  • Passive participle: مُعَوَّن‎ (muʕawwan)
• Form III: عَاوَنَ‎ (ʕāwana, “to help, to assist”)
  • Verbal noun: مُعَاوَنَة‎ (muʕāwana), عِوَان‎ (ʕiwān)
  • Active participle: مُعَاوِن‎ (muʕāwin)
  • Passive participle: مُعَاوَن‎ (muʕāwan)
• Form IV: أَعَانَ‎ (ʔaʕāna, “to help”)
  • Verbal noun: إِعَانَة‎ (ʔiʕāna)
  • Active participle: مُعِين‎ (muʕīn)
  • Passive participle: مُعَان‎ (muʕān)
• Form VI: تَعَاوَنَ‎ (taʕāwana, “to cooperate, to work together”)
  • Verbal noun: تَعَاوُن‎ (taʕāwun)
  • Active participle: مُتَعَاوِن‎ (mutaʕāwin)
  • Passive participle: مُتَعَاوَن‎ (mutaʕāwan)
• Form VIII: اِعْتَانَ‎ (iʕtāna, “to cause oneself to help, to give care”)
  • Verbal noun: اِعْتِيَان‎ (iʕtiyān)
  • Active participle: مُعْتَان‎ (muʕtān)
  • Passive participle: مُعْتَان‎ (muʕtān)
• Form X: اِسْتَعَانَ‎ (istaʕāna, “to ask for help”)
  • Verbal noun: اِسْتِعَانَة‎ (istiʕāna)
  • Active participle: مُسْتَعِين‎ (mustaʕīn)
  • Passive participle: مُسْتَعَان‎ (mustaʕān)

Nouns and other parts of speech

• عَوْن‎ (ʕawn, “help”)
• عَانَة‎ (ʕāna, “pubes; a sign of maturity”)
• عَوَان‎ m (ʕawān, “middle-aged, mature age; of a woman who has reached sexual maturity or has had her first child”)
• مِعْوَان‎ m (miʕwān, “aid”)
• مَعُونَة‎ f (maʕūna, “support”)

• Freytag, Georg (1835), “ع و ن”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 3, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 246
• Wehr, Hans; Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985), “ع و ن”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, pages 898–899
• “عون” in Almaany
• Lane, Edward William (1863), “ع و ن”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, pages 2203-2204