آوام

Persian

Alternative forms

• اوان (āwān / âvân)

Etymology 1

From Middle Persian ʾwbʾm (āwām, “time, season”), compare Manichaean Middle Persian ʾwʾm, ʾʾwʾm (āwām, “time, space of time; age, epoch; point of time, occasion”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /ʔaː.ˈwaːm/

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔɑː.wɑ́ːm]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔɑː.wɑ́ːm]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [ʔɑː.wɑ́ːm]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [ʔɔː.wɔ́ːm]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔɒː.vɒ́ːm]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔɔ.vɔ́m]

• Rhymes: -aːm

Readings
Classical reading?	āwām
Dari reading?	āwām
Iranian reading?	âvâm
Tajik reading?	ovom

Noun

آوام • (āwām / âvâm) (plural آوام‌ها (āwām-hā / âvâm-hâ), Tajik spelling овом)

1. time, season

References

• MacKenzie, D. N. (1971), “āwām”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press
• Durkin-Meisterernst, Desmond (2004), “ʾwʾm”, in A Dictionary of Manichaean Middle Persian and Parthian (Corpus Fontium Manichaeorum; 3.1), Turnhout: Brepols

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /ˈwaːm/

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [wɑːm]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [wɑːm]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [wɑːm]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [wɔːm]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [vɒːm]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [vɔm]

• Rhymes: -aːm

Readings
Classical reading?	wām
Dari reading?	wām
Iranian reading?	vâm
Tajik reading?	vom

Noun

آوام • (āwām / âvâm) (Tajik spelling овом)

1. obsolete form of وام (wām / vâm, “loan”)