אן

See also: אַן, אָן, and Appendix:Variations of "an"

Arabic

Conjunction

אן • (ʾan)

1. Judeo-Arabic spelling of أَنْ (ʔan)‎‎
   • c. 10th century, Saadia Gaon, Tafsir‎^[1], Genesis 1:3:

     ושא אללה אן יכון נור פכאן נור׃

     wa-šāʔa llāhu ʔan yakūna nūrun fakāna nūrun.

     And God willed there to be light, and then there was light.

Conjunction

אן • (ʾanna)

1. Judeo-Arabic spelling of أَنَّ (ʔanna)‎‎

Conjunction

אן • (ʾin)

1. Judeo-Arabic spelling of إِنْ (ʔin, “if”)‎‎

Particle

אן • (ʾinna)

1. Judeo-Arabic spelling of إِنَّ (ʔinna)‎‎
   • c. 10th century, Saadia Gaon, Tafsir‎^[2], Exodus 10:1:

     תׄם קאל אללה למוסי אדכׄל אלי פרעון פאני קד קוית קלבה וקלב קואדה לכי אחל אפאתי הדׄה בהם׃

     ṯumma qāla llāhu limūsā dḵul ʾilā firʿawna faʾinnī qad qawwaytu qalbahu waqalba quwwādihi likay ʾuḥilla ʾāfātī hāḏihi bahum.

     Then God said to Moses: Come to Pharaoh for [indeed] I have just strengthened his heart and the heart of his commanders so that I might set upon them these my plagues.

Aramaic

Etymology

From Proto-Semitic *šim.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʔɛn/

Conjunction

אן • (transliteration needed)

1. if

Hebrew

Etymology

From Biblical Hebrew אָוֶן (āwen), from Egyptian jwnw (“Heliopolis”)

Proper noun

אֹן • (on)

1. Heliopolis
   • Tanach, Genesis 41:45, with translation of Aryeh Kaplan:

     וַיִּקְרָא פַרְעֹה שֵׁם־יוֹסֵף צָפְנַת פַּעְנֵח וַיִּתֶּן־לוֹ אֶת־אָסְנַת בַּת־פּוֹטִי פֶרַע כֹּהֵן אֹן לְאִשָּׁה וַיֵּצֵא יוֹסֵף עַל־אֶרֶץ מִצְרָיִם׃

     vay-yiqra far'óh shem yoséf tsafnát pa'néaḥ vay-yitten lo et asənat bat poṭi féra' kohen on le-ishá vay-yetsé yoséf 'al érets mitsráyim.

     Pharaoh gave Joseph the name Tzaphnath Paaneach. He gave him Asenath, daughter of Poti Phera, the priest of On, as a wife. Joseph thus went out to oversee Egypt.

Further reading

• H204 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible

Anagrams

• נא

Mozarabic

Etymology

Inherited from Latin in. Compare Portuguese em, Spanish en.

Preposition

אן (ʔn)

1. in
   • c. 1100, Kharja H3, section 4:

     אן ואד אלחגארה

     ʔn wʔd ʔlḥgʔrh

     in Guadalajara

Yiddish

Determiner

אן • (an)

1. (nonstandard) Unpointed form of אַן (an).

Preposition

אן • (on)

1. (nonstandard) Unpointed form of אָן (on).