کونین
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Persian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Arabic كَوْنَيْن (kawnayn), dual of كَوْن (kawn).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Persian) IPA(key): [kaw.ˈnajn]
- (Iran, formal) IPA(key): [kʰow.ˈnejn]
- (Tajik, formal) IPA(key): [kʰäw.nǽjn]
Readings | |
---|---|
Classical reading? | kawnayn |
Dari reading? | kawnayn |
Iranian reading? | kowneyn |
Tajik reading? | kavnayn |
Noun
[edit]کونین • (kowneyn)
- (Islam) the two kinds of existence: the material world and the spiritual world
- c. 1520, Selim I of the Ottoman Empire, edited by Benedek Péri, The Persian Dīvān of Yavuz Sulṭān Selīm, Budapest, Hungary: Research Centre for the Humanities, Eötvös Loránd Research Network, →ISBN, page 96:
- چنان خواهم سلیمی کز همه کونین باشم فرد
میان عاشقان باری چنین مفرد کنم خود را- čunān xwāham salīmī k-az hama kawnayn bāšam fard
miyān-i āšiqān bārē čunīn mufrad kunam xwad rā - I, Selim, desire to be solitary in all the two existences;
In short, in the midst of lovers, I shall single myself out like this.
- čunān xwāham salīmī k-az hama kawnayn bāšam fard
Further reading
[edit]- Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “کونین”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim