گون

گون (gün) (definite accusative گونو (günü), plural گونلر (günlər))

1. Arabic spelling of gün (“day”)

Compare Persian گند (gond, “testicle”) and Middle Persian [script needed] (gwnd /⁠gund⁠/).

• IPA^(key): /ɡʊn/

گون (gun)

1. testicle

• Hejar (1990) “گون”, in Henbane borîne‎^[2], Tehran: Soroush, page 718
• Wahby, T., Edmonds, C. J. (1966) “gun”, in A Kurdish-English Dictionary, page 57

From Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (gwn' /⁠gōn⁠/, “colour, complexion”), from Proto-Iranian *gauna (“hair; color”), perhaps related to Sanskrit गुण (guṇa, “thread, cord”), with further origin beyond Indo-Iranian uncertain.

Possibly from the BMAC substrate.^[1] Alternatively, from Proto-Indo-European *gow-no-m (“something curved or vaulted”), from *gew- (“to curve”).^[2]

Akin to Avestan 𐬔𐬀𐬊𐬥𐬀 (gaona, “colour”), Pashto غونه (γūna, “colour”), Ossetian хъуын (qwyn, “hair”). Old Armenian գոյն (goyn) is an Iranian borrowing.

گون • (gun)

1. (usually in compounds) colour

   Synonym: رنگ (rang)

2. kind, type, species

   Synonym: نوع (now')

   • c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume I, verse 269:

     هر دو گون آهو گیا خوردند و آب
     زین یکی سرگین شد و ز ان مشک ناب

     har du gōn āhū giyā xwardand u āb
     z-īn yakē sargēn šud u z-ān mušk-i nāb

     Both species of deer ate grass and drank water: from this one came dung, and from that one pure musk.

     (Classical Persian transliteration)

3. manner, fashion, mode

• → Ottoman Turkish: گون (gûn)

Apparently گو (gaw, “cow”) with suffix as hinted at گرزن (garzan, “crown”).

گون • (gavan)

2. milkvetch

• → Old Anatolian Turkish: كون (gävän)
  • Azerbaijani: gəvən
  • Ottoman Turkish: كون (geven)
    • Turkish: geven

• MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “gōn”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “گون”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul
• Vullers, Johann August (1856–1864) “گون”, 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^[3] (in Latin), volume II, Gießen: J. Ricker, page 1056

گون (gon)

1. smell
2. bad smell
3. a cut trunk of a tree