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ان (ən)

1. one
2. Arabic spelling of en, alternative form of اَِنْ

Cognate to Hebrew ־ן

ـَان • (-ān)

1. Suffix used in forming intensive adjectives of the pattern فَعْلَان (faʕlān), e.g. تَعْبَان (taʕbān, “tired”), عَطْشَان (ʕaṭšān, “thirsty”), غَضْبَان (ḡaḍbān, “angry”), زَعْلَان (zaʕlān, “annoyed”), كَسْلَان (kaslān, “lazy”), نَعْسَان (naʕsān, “drowsy”). These adjectives generally have a feminine in َـى (-ā), e.g. عَطْشَى (ʕaṭšā), كَسْلَى (kaslā), نَعْسَى (naʕsā).

َـانـ • (-ān-)

1. Interfix used in forming nisba (relative) adjectives, inserted between the base noun and the ending ـِيّ (-iyy), e.g. أَنَانِيّ (ʔanāniyy, “selfish”), based on أَنَا (ʔanā) or عَالَمَانِيّ (ʕālamāniyy, “worldly, secular”), based on عَالَم (ʕālam, “world”).

ـَانِ • (-āni) (oblique ـَيْنِ (-ayni), construct ـَا (-ā), oblique construct ـَيْ (-ay))

1. Suffix added to a noun or adjective to form the dual form.

   ‎مُعَلِّم (muʕallim, “teacher”) + ‎ـَانِ (-āni) → ‎مُعَلِّمَانِ (muʕallimāni, “two teachers”)

• ـُونَ (-ūna, sound masculine pluralizing suffix)
• ـَات (-āt, sound feminine pluralizing suffix)

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• IPA^(key): [un]

ان (un)

1. you; second-person singular pronoun

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• IPA^(key): [in]

ان (in)

1. he, she; third-person singular pronoun

• Bechtholdt, Astrid (2025) “un”, in Burushaski Hunza Dictionary (Webonary), Dallas, Texas, USA: SIL International, published 2017.
• Bechtholdt, Astrid (2025) “in”, in Burushaski Hunza Dictionary (Webonary), Dallas, Texas, USA: SIL International, published 2017.

From Arabic ـَان (-ān).

ـان • (-ān)

1. Suffix used in forming intensive adjectives of the pattern فَعْلَان (faʕlān).

• Intensive adjectives often act as active participles of stative verbs, usually having the pattern فِعِل (fiʕil), for instance:

  زِعِل (ziʕil, “to get sad”) → زعلان (zaʕlān, “sad”)

Category:Hijazi Arabic intensive adjectives

Inherited from Sanskrit आण्ड (āṇḍa).

ان (an) m

1. egg

• Baart, Joan L. G. (1997) “an”, in The sounds and tones of Kalam Kohistani: with wordlist and texts (Studies in Languages of Northern Pakistan; 1)‎^[1], National Institute of Pakistan Studies, Quaid-i-Azam University; Summer Institute of Linguistics, page 77

Clipping of إن (ʔin, “if”), from Arabic إن (ʔin, “if”).

ٱنـ • (n-)

1. if

   Synonyms: إذا (ʔiza), انكنـ (nkann-) (regional), كنـ (kann-, kinn-) (regional)

• Only used with perfective verbs. Falling out of general use compared to إذا (ʔiza), but remains typical in some situations, such as:
  1. In constructions meaning "whether or not"
  2. With the word كان (kān, “to be”), as in انكان (nkān, “if it is”).

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *-gan, which is comparable to Proto-Mongolic *-gan and Proto-Tungusic *-kan.

ان • (-an)

1. adjective-forming suffix that, added to the root of a verb, creates non-past participles

   ‎بورـ (bur-, “to twist, wring”) + ‎ان → ‎بوران (buran, “twisting, wringing, that twists or wrings”)

• Turkish: -an

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “-an1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 238

Readings
Classical reading?	an
Dari reading?	an
Iranian reading?	an
Tajik reading?	an

ان • (an)

1. (vulgar) Alternative spelling of عن.

English en.

• IPA^(key): /en/

ان • (en)

1. Transliteration of the name of the Latin-script letter n in English and other European languages.

• دی‌ان‌ای (di-en-ey)

From Arabic ـَان (-ān).

ـان • (-ān)

1. Suffix used in forming intensive adjectives of the pattern فَعْلَان (faʕlān).

• Intensive adjectives often act as active participles of stative verbs, usually having the pattern فِعِل (fiʕil), for instance:

  عطش (ʕiṭiš, “to be thirsty”) → عطشان (ʕaṭšān, “thirsty”)

  حزن (ḥizin, “to get sad”) → حزنان (ḥaznān, “sad”)

Category:South Levantine Arabic intensive adjectives

Inherited from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀅𑀡- (aṇa-), from Sanskrit अन्- (an-), from Proto-Indo-European *n̥- (“not, un-”).

• اـ (before consonants)

اَنـ • (an-) (Hindi spelling अन-)

1. A negating prefix. non-, un-, a-, an-, etc.

   ‎ان + ‎کَہا (kahā, “said”) → ‎اَنْکَہا (ankahā, “unsaid, unspoken”)

This form is used before words that begin with vowels.

اِن • (in) m pl or f pl (Hindi spelling इन)

1. (proximal) third-person plural objective personal pronoun: them
2. (oblique case) these; plural of اِس (is)
3. (formal, proximal) third-person singular objective personal pronoun: him, (oblique case) her
4. (formal, oblique case) this

اُن • (un) m pl or f pl (Hindi spelling उन)

1. (distal) third-person plural objective personal pronoun: them
2. (oblique case) those; plural of اُس (us)
3. (formal, distal) third-person singular objective personal pronoun: him, (oblique case) her
4. (formal, oblique case) that

اِن • (in) pl (Hindi spelling इन)

1. (oblique case) these; plural of اِس (is)
2. (formal, oblique case) this

اُن • (un) pl (Hindi spelling उन)

1. (oblique case) those; plural of اُس (us)
2. (formal, oblique case) that