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

• (Iran) IPA^(key): [æˈvɒn]

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