خون

See also: جون, جوں, چون, and Appendix:Variations of "hun"

Arabic

Etymology

From the root خ و ن (ḵ-w-n).

Verb

خَوَّنَ (ḵawwana) II, non-past يُخَوِّنُ‎ (yuḵawwinu)

  1. to regard as faithless, to regard as disloyal, to regard as false, to regard as treacherous, to regard as traitorous, to regard as perfidious, to regard as dishonest, to regard as unreliable
  2. to call faithless, to call disloyal, to be false, to be treacherous, to be perfidious, to call false, to call treacherous, to call perfidious, to call dishonest, to call unreliable
  3. to accuse of betrayal, to accuse of disloyalty
  4. to charge with treason, to charge with treachery
  5. to distrust, to mistrust
  6. to two-time

Conjugation

Noun

خَوْن (ḵawn) m

  1. verbal noun of خَانَ (ḵāna) (form I)
  2. being disloyal, being faithless, being false, being treacherous, being perfidious
  3. acting disloyally, acting treacherously, acting perfidiously
  4. betraying
  5. cheating, duping, hoodwinking
  6. forsaking, deserting, letting down
  7. failing, breaking (a promise)

Declension

References

Persian

Etymology

From Middle Persian 𐭣𐭬𐭩𐭠 (dmyʾ /xōn/), also 𐫑𐫇𐫗 (k̇wn /xōn/), from Proto-Iranian *wahūnī.

Cognate with Bakhtiari خین (xīn), Northern Luri خی (xi), Baluchi ہون (hūn), Northern Kurdish xwîn, Central Kurdish خوێن (xwên), Southern Kurdish خۊن (xün) or خوین (xuyn), Zazaki gonî, Gurani ۋنی (ʋinī) or هوون (hūn), Parthian 𐭂𐭅𐭇𐭍 (gwḥn /gōxn/), Sivandi فین (fīn), Harzani and Karingani وون (vūn), Sogdian [script needed] (γwrn /xurn/) or [script needed] (wγrn /wuxrn, uxarn/), Yagnobi вахм (vaxm), Pashto وینه (wina) and Avestan 𐬬𐬊𐬵𐬎𐬥𐬀 (vohuna).

Pronunciation

    • (Dari): IPA(key): /xuːn/

    Noun

    Dari خون
    Iranian Persian
    Tajik хун (xun)

    خون (xun)

    1. blood

    Descendants

    • Azerbaijani: xun
    • Bengali: খুন (khun)
    • Hindi: ख़ून (xūn)
    • Maithili: खून (khūn)
    • Punjabi: ਖ਼ੂਨ (xūn)
    • Urdu: خون

    References

    • Bläsing, Uwe (1997), “Irano-Turcica: Westiranisches Wortgut im türkeitürkischen Dialektmaterial”, in Studia Etymologica Cracoviensia (in German), issue 2, § 37, pages 102–103
    • Cathcart, Chundra Aroor (2015) Iranian Dialectology and Dialectometry (PhD dissertation), Berkeley: University of California at Berkeley, pages 33, 93
    • Horn, Paul (1893) Grundriss der neupersischen Etymologie (in German), Strasbourg: K.J. Trübner, § 511, page 113
    • Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, pages 1171–1172

    Urdu

    Etymology

    Borrowed from Persian خون (xun).

    Pronunciation

    Noun

    خون (xūn) m (Hindi spelling ख़ून)

    1. blood
      Synonym: رکت (rakt)
    2. murder
    3. slaughter

    Derived terms

    • خون دینا (xūn denā)
    • خونی (xūnī)
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