سکون

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic سُكُون (sukūn).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /su.ˈkuːn/

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [sʊ.kʰúːn]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [sʊ.kʰúːn]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [sʊ.kʰúːn]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [su.kʰún]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [so.kʰúːn]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [su.kʰún]

Readings
Classical reading?	sukūn
Dari reading?	sukūn
Iranian reading?	sokun
Tajik reading?	sukun

Noun

سکون • (sukūn / sokun) (Tajik spelling сукун)

1. calm, quiet, tranquility
2. rest, immobility
3. the sukun (the diacritic ـْ marking the absence of a vowel)

Further reading

• Hayyim, Sulayman (1934), “سکون”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian سُکُون (sukūn), from Arabic سُكُون (sukūn).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /sʊ.kuːn/
• Rhymes: -uːn

Noun

سُکُون • (sukūn) m (Hindi spelling सुकून)

1. peace, tranquility
2. (orthography) sukun

   Near-synonym: وِرام (virām)

Declension

Declension of سکون

	singular	plural
direct	سُکُون (sukūn)	سُکُون (sukūn)
oblique	سُکُون (sukūn)	سُکُونوں (sukūnõ)
vocative	سُکُون (sukūn)	سُکُونو (sukūno)

Further reading

• Fallon, S. W. (1879), “سکون”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 770
• Platts, John T. (1884), “سکون”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 665
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971), “سکون”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co., page 381
• “سکون”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2026.
• John Shakespear (1834), “سکون”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3^rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC, page 1081
• “سکون”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.