آن

Belonging to the family ء ن ي (ʔ-n-y), “to come or draw near”, “to be at or present”, “to happen or occur“, “to come to a point in time”. Related to هُنَا (hunā, “here, in this place; then, now, at this point”), أَنْ (ʔan, “that, that before us presently”), إِن (ʔin, “if possible; having the possibility to occur or happen, a chance of coming to be before us, of presenting itself”), إِنَّ (ʔinna, “surely; now surely, now indeed”), and أَيْنَ (ʔayna, “where, at which place”). Related cognates with Akkadian 𒀭𒉡 (annu, “now; see, look”), Hebrew אָנָה ('ána, “whither, to where”), Ugaritic 𐎀𐎐 (ản, “where, at which place, to which point”), Classical Syriac ܐܢ (ʾān, “where, at a place; until when, how long”).

• Rhymes: -aːn

آن • (ʔān) m

1. time

   Synonyms: وَقْت (waqt), حِين (ḥīn), أَوَان (ʔawān)

• Kurdish:

  → Central Kurdish: ئان (an), عان ('an)

  → Southern Kurdish: ئان (an)

• → Persian: آن (ân, “moment”)

  → Uyghur: ئان (an, “moment, instant”)

• → Turkish: an

See above.

آنَ • (ʔāna) I (non-past يَئِينُ (yaʔīnu), verbal noun أَيْن (ʔayn))

1. to come, to near (said of time)

   Synonyms: حَانَ (ḥāna), أَنَى (ʔanā)

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *ol, whence also اُولْ (ol).

آنْ (an)

1. he, she, it (third person singular pronoun)

آنْ (an) is the oblique case variant of اُولْ (ol).

Reflexives of the merger with اُولْ (ol):

• Azerbaijani: (plural and oblique stem) on-
• Gagauz: (plural and oblique stem) on-
• Ottoman Turkish: (plural and oblique stem) اونـ (on-)
  • Turkish: (plural and oblique stem) on-

Borrowed from Arabic آن (ʔān)

آنْ (ʔān).

1. moment

• Azerbaijani: an
• Gagauz: an
• Ottoman Turkish: آن (an)
  • Turkish: an

From Arabic آن (ʔān).

آن • (an) (definite accusative آنی)

1. moment

   بر آن اول ― bir an evvel ― as soon as possible

• Turkish: an

• Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), “an 1”, in The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “آن”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 38

Dari	آن
Iranian Persian
Tajik	он

Readings
Classical reading?	ān
Dari reading?	ān
Iranian reading?	ân
Tajik reading?	on

Homophone: او (colloquial Dari)

• Audio (Iran):

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From Middle Persian 𐭠𐭭 (ān, “that, he”).^[1]

آن • (ân)

1. that
2. those

آن • (ân) (plural آن‌ها, human plural آنان)

1. that
2. it
3. he, she

   Synonyms: او (u), وی (vey, literary formal), ایشان (išân, honorific), ایشون (išun, honorific colloquial)

Borrowed from Arabic آن (ʔān)

آن • (ân)

1. moment
2. breath

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

آن • (ân)

1. (dialectal) Alternative form of دهان (dahân, “mouth”)

آݨ • (āṇ)

1. inflection of آݨا (āṇā):
   1. oblique infinitive
   2. second-person singular polite future subjunctive
   3. third-person plural future subjunctive