سکون

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic سُكُون (sukūn).

Pronunciation

 

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

Urdu

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Noun

سُکُون • (sukūnm (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

  • S. W. Fallon (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, 2025.
  • 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, 3rd 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.