خوان

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See also: جوان

Arabic[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

From the root خ و ن (ḵ-w-n).

Adjective[edit]

خَوَّان (ḵawwān) (feminine خَوَّانَة (ḵawwāna), masculine plural خَوَّانُونَ (ḵawwānūna), feminine plural خَوَّانَات (ḵawwānāt))

  1. unreliable, faithless, disloyal, treacherous, perfidious
  2. traitorous
Declension[edit]
Related terms[edit]

Etymology 2[edit]

From Middle Persian hw’n' (xwān, tray, table). Compare Classical Persian خوان (xwân, table, tablecloth).

Noun[edit]

خُوَان or خِوَان (ḵuwān or ḵiwānm (plural أَخْوِنَة (ʔaḵwina) or أَخَاوِين (ʔaḵāwīn))

  1. table, particularly such one as is fit for dining
    Synonyms: مَائِدَة (māʔida), طَاوِلَة (ṭāwila), مِنْضَدَة (minḍada)
    • 7th century CE, Ṣaḥīḥ al-Buḵāriyy, 70:14:
      مَا عَلِمْتُ النَّبِيَّ —صَلَّى اللَّٰهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ— أَكَلَ عَلَى سُكُرُّجَةٍ قَطُّ، وَلَا خُبِزَ لَهُ مُرَقَّقٌ قَطُّ، وَلَا أَكَلَ عَلَى خِوَانٍ
      mā ʕalimtu n-nabiyya —ṣallā llāhu ʕalayhi wasallama— ʔakala ʕalā sukurrujatin qaṭṭu, wa-lā ḵubiza la-hū muraqqaqun qaṭṭu, wa-lā ʔakala ʕalā ḵiwānin
      I never knew the Prophet—may God bless him and grant him peace—to ever eat from a side-dish plate, or to eat crumbled bread, or to eat at a table.
Declension[edit]
Descendants[edit]
  • Tigre: ክዋና (kəwana, elevated sleeping-spot of a shepherd)

Etymology 3[edit]

Adjective[edit]

خُوَّان (ḵuwwānm pl

  1. masculine plural of خَائِن (ḵāʔin)

Noun[edit]

خُوَّان (ḵuwwānm pl

  1. plural of خَائِن (ḵāʔin)

Ottoman Turkish[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

From Persian خوان (xvân, table, tablecloth).

Noun[edit]

خوان (han, hon)

  1. a large tray which serves as a table, board where viands are processed or eaten
  2. meal, food, victuals

Etymology 2[edit]

From Persian خوان (xân, read).

Adjective[edit]

خوان (han)

  1. (in compounds) reading, who recites
    قرآن خوانKur'an hanQuran reader

Pashto[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Persian خوان (xvân).

Noun[edit]

خوان (xwânm

  1. a large tray which serves as a table

Derived terms[edit]

Persian[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

From Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (hw’n' /⁠xwān⁠/, tray, table). Compare Avestan 𐬓𐬀𐬌𐬥𐬌 (xᵛaini, cover, carpet) and Old Armenian խան (xan), an Iranian borrowing.

Pronunciation[edit]

 

Readings
Classical reading? xwān
Dari reading? xān
Iranian reading? xân
Tajik reading? xon

Noun[edit]

Dari خوان
Iranian Persian
Tajik хон

خوان (xân)

  1. table or large tray particularly such one as is fit for dining
  2. (dated) tablecloth
Derived terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
  • Middle Armenian: խօն (xōn)

Etymology 2[edit]

Verb[edit]

خوان (xvân)

  1. present stem form of خواندن (xvândan, to read)

References[edit]

  • Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892), “خوان”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul
  • MacKenzie, D. N. (1971), “hw’n'”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 95
  • Nourai, Ali (2011) An Etymological Dictionary of Persian, English and other Indo-European Languages, page 530