ون

Arabic

Suffix

ـُونَ • (-ūna) m

1. Nominative-case (marfūʿ) suffix used to pluralize masculine nouns and adjectives referring to people. In Classical Arabic, with full ʾiʿrāb, appears as ـُونَ (-ūna). Note that most masculine nouns and adjectives referring to people, especially shorter ones, are not pluralized in this fashion, but use a broken plural instead. Furthermore, non-human masculine nouns don't use this suffix, either forming a broken plural or using the "feminine" suffix ـَات (-āt).
2. Nominative-case (marfūʿ) suffix used very occasionally to pluralize non-human nouns, including some that are feminine, such as سَنَة (sana, “year”), plural سِنُون (sinūn).
3. -ty

Derived terms

terms derived using ـُونَ (multiples of ten)

• عِشْرُونَ (ʕišrūna)
• ثَلَاثُونَ (ṯalāṯūna)
• أَرْبَعُونَ (ʔarbaʕūna)
• خَمْسُونَ (ḵamsūna)

• سِتُّونَ (sittūna)
• سَبْعُونَ (sabʕūna)
• ثَمَانُونَ (ṯamānūna)
• تِسْعُونَ (tisʕūna)

See also

• ـِينَ (-īna) (for the accusative and genitive cases)

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Persian

Etymology 1

From English van.

Noun

ون • (van) (plural ون‌ها (van-hâ))

1. van

Etymology 2

From Middle Persian wn' (/⁠wan⁠/, “tree”).

Noun

ون • (van)

1. ash tree

Etymology 3

From Arabic ـُونَ (-ūna)

Suffix

ـون • (-un)

1. (rare, literary) A suffix forming the plural of nouns (usually of Arabic origin) ending in ـی (-i)

Derived terms

• انقلابیون (enqelâbiyyun)
• روحانیون (rowhâniyyun)
• افراطیون (efrâtiyyun)
• اعتدالیون (e'tedâliyyun)
• ملیون (melliyyun)
• اجتماعیون (ejtemâ'iyyun)
• جبریون (jabriyyun)
• اختیاریون (extiyâriyyun)
• الهیون (elâhiyyun), الاهیون (elâhiyyun)
• مادیون (mâddiyyun)
• طبیعیون (tabi'iyyun)
• داعشیون (dâ'ešiyyun)

Further reading

• Vullers, Johann August (1856–1864) “ون”, in Lexicon Persico-Latinum etymologicum cum linguis maxime cognatis Sanscrita et Zendica et Pehlevica comparatum, e lexicis persice scriptis Borhâni Qâtiu, Haft Qulzum et Bahâri agam et persico-turcico Farhangi-Shuûrî confectum, adhibitis etiam Castelli, Meninski, Richardson et aliorum operibus et auctoritate scriptorum Persicorum adauctum‎^[1] (in Latin), volume II, Gießen: J. Ricker, page 1432b