𐼰𐼰𐼵𐽆𐼴𐼻

Old Uyghur

Orthographic variants
Uyghur script	𐽰𐽰𐽴𐽳𐽺 (ʾʾzwn /⁠azun⁠/) 𐽰𐽰𐽿𐽳𐽺 (ʾʾšwn /⁠ašun⁠/) 𐽰𐽰𐽴𐾅𐽳𐽺 (ʾʾz̤wn /⁠aʒun⁠/)
Manichaean script	𐫀𐫋𐫇𐫗 (ʾjwn /⁠aʒun⁠/) 𐫀𐫀𐫋𐫇𐫗 (ʾʾjwn /⁠aʒun⁠/)
Sogdian script	𐼰𐼰𐼵𐽊𐼴𐼻 (ʾʾz̄wn /⁠aʒun, adzun⁠/) 𐼰𐼰𐼵𐽆𐼰𐼴𐼻 (ʾʾẓʾwn /⁠aʒaun, aʒawun⁠/) 𐼰𐼰𐼵𐽇𐼴𐼻 (ʾʾz̤wn /⁠aʒun⁠/) 𐼰𐼰𐼵𐼰𐼴𐼻 (ʾʾzʾwn /⁠azaun, azawun⁠/)
Brahmi script	𑀆‌𑀛𑀼‌𑀦𑁆 (ā‌jhu‌n /⁠āʒun⁠/) 𑀆‌𑀰𑀼‌𑀫𑁆 (ā‌śu‌m /⁠āśuṃ⁠/) 𑀆‌𑀘𑀽‌𑀫𑁆 (ā‌cū‌m /⁠āčuṃ, āʒuṃ⁠/)
Tibetan script	ཡཟོན (ya.zo.n /⁠azon, aʒon⁠/)

Borrowed from Sogdian 𐫀𐫋𐫇𐫗 (ʾjwn /⁠ajun⁠/), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *ǰáyH-, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʷeyh₃- (“to live”).

𐼰𐼰𐼵𐽆𐼴𐼻 (ʾʾẓwn /aʒun/)

(religion, philosophy, Manichaeism, Buddhism) existence, essence, being
Synonyms: 𐽰𐽳𐽶𐽴 (ʾwyz /⁠öz⁠/), 𐽰𐾀𐽰𐽳𐽶𐽴 (ʾtʾwyz /⁠ätöz⁠/), 𐽶𐽶𐽺𐽷𐽰𐽲 (yynkʾq /⁠yïŋaḳ⁠/), 𐽶𐽳𐾁 (ywl /⁠yol⁠/)

Antonym: 𐽶𐽳𐽲 (ywq /⁠yoḳ, yuḳ⁠/)
(religion, philosophy, Buddhism) birth, rebirth, reincarnation
Synonyms: 𑀚𑀢𑀺 (jati /⁠ʒate⁠/), 𐾀𐽳𐽲𐽳𐽹 (twqwm /⁠tuġum⁠/)
- c. 9th century, Śubhavyūharājapūrvayogaparivarta Mz309.4 (r04):^[1]
  𐼷𐼺𐼰 𐼰𐼴𐼻𐼸𐽀𐼰𐼸𐼷 𐼰𐼰𐼵𐽆𐼴𐼻𐽂𐼰𐼲𐽇𐼷 𐼾𐼴𐼷𐼰𐼻 𐼰𐼸𐼴 𐼲𐽇𐼹𐼰𐼷𐼻𐽁
  ymʾ ʾwnkrʾky ʾʾẓwntʾq̈y pwyʾn ʾdkw q̈lʾync
  /Yemä öŋräki aʒuntaḳï buyan ädgü ḳïlïnč […] /
  […] and in order to [...]^? of [our] good deeds in former reincarnations […]
lifetime, generation; the world
Synonyms: 𐽰𐽳𐽶𐽴 (ʾwyz /⁠öz⁠/), 𐽶𐽰𐽿 (yʾš /⁠yaš⁠/)

Caferoğlu, Ahmet (1968) “ajun”, in Eski Uygur Türkçesi Sözlüğü (Türk Dil Kurumu Yayınları; 260) (in Turkish), Istanbul: Edebiyat Fakültesi Basımevi, page 8
Wilkens, Jens (2021) “(1) ažun”, in Handwörterbuch des Altuigurischen (in German), Göttingen: Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen, pages 94-95
Zieme, Peter (1998) The conversion of King Śubhavyūha: Further Fragments of an Old Turkic Version of the Saddharmapuṇḍarīka (Essays in Honour of Akira Yuyamaon the occasion of his 65th birthday) (Indica et Tibetica; 35), pages 257-265