# کون
## Central Kurdish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kʊn/

### Noun

کون (kun)
* hole (a through opening)

## Chagatai
### Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *kün.

### Noun

کون (kün)
* the sun
* day

#### Descendants

* Uyghur: كۈن (kün)
* Uzbek: kun

### References

* Schluessel, Eric (2018) “کون”, in An Introduction to Chaghatay: A Graded Textbook for Reading Central Asian Sources‎, Michigan Publishing, page 44
* Courteille, Abel Pavet de (1870) “کون”, in Dictionnaire turk-oriental [Eastern Turkic Dictionary]‎ (in French), Paris: Imprimerie Impériale, page 477

## Kipchak
### Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *kün.

### Noun

کون (kün)
* the sun
* day

#### Descendants

* North Kipchak:
** Tatar: көн (kön)
** Bashkir: көн (kön)
** Siberian Tatar: көн (kön)
* West Kipchak:
** Crimean Tatar: кунь (kün)
** Karachay-Balkar: кюн (kün)
** Kumyk: гюн (gün)
** Karaim: kiuń
* South Kipchak:
** Caspian:
*** Kazakh: күн (kün)
*** Karakalpak: күн (ku'n)
*** Nogai: куьн (kün)
** Kyrgyz-Kipchak:
*** Kyrgyz: күн (kün)
*** Southern Altai: кӱн (kün)

### References

* Garkavec, A. N. (2018) “kün”, in Kypčakskij slovarʹ. Po armjanopisʹmennym pamjatnikam XVI—XVII vekov [Kipchak dictionary. Based on the monuments of 16–17th centuries written in the Armenian script]‎ (in Russian), 3rd edition, Almaty: BAUR, →ISBN, page 766
* Houtsma, Martin Theodor (1894) Ein türkisch-arabisches Glossar, nach der Leidener Handschrift herausgegeben und erläutert‎, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 28

## Persian
### Etymology 1

Inherited from Middle Persian [script needed] (kūn, “anus”). Cognate with Northern Kurdish qûn (“anus”), Northern Kurdish kun (“hole”), Khotanese khūṇā- (“hole”), Pashto کونه (kwëna, kuna, “ass, anus”).

#### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [kuːn]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [kʰuːn]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [kʰuːn]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [kʰuːn]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [kʰun]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [kʰuːn]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [kʰun]

#### Noun

کون • (kun)
* (vulgar) anus
* (vulgar) arse, ass

##### Derived terms

* کونی (kuni)
* بچه کونی (bačče kuni)
* کون‌کش (kun-keš)
* کون‌گشاد (kun-gošâd)

### Etymology 2
#### Pronunciation

* (Isfahan) IPA: /kʰun/

#### Verb

کون • (kun, kŭn)
* (dialectal, Isfahan) present stem of کردن
    بوکون!
       Do it!

### Etymology 3

From Arabic كَوْن (kawn).

#### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [kawn]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [kʰäwn]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [kʰäwn]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [kʰäwn]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [kʰäwn]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [kʰown]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [kʰown]
** (Tehrani) IPA: [kʰon]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [kʰäwn]

#### Noun

کون • (kown)
* existence
* creation

##### Derived terms

* کون و مکان (kown o makân)

## Sindhi
### Postposition

کون • (khon) (Devanagari खां)
* from, out of

## Urdu
### Etymology 1

Inherited from Sanskrit कोण (koṇa).

#### Noun

کون • (kon) m (Hindi spelling कोण)
* corner
* angle

### Etymology 2

Inherited from Sauraseni Apabhramsa कवण (kavaṇa), from Sanskrit कः पुनर् (kaḥ punar, “who”). Compare Gujarati કોણ (koṇ), Marathi कोण (koṇ), Assamese কোন (kün).

#### Pronunciation

* (Standard Urdu) IPA: /kɔːn/

#### Pronoun

کَون • (kaun) (Hindi spelling कौन)
* subjective interrogative pronoun used to refer to persons: who
    کَون بول رَہے ہَیں؟kaun bol rahe ha͠i?Who is speaking?

##### Inflection

Singular:
Plural (formal):

### Etymology 3

Borrowed from Classical Persian کون (kūn).

#### Noun

کُون • (kūn) f (Hindi spelling कून)
* fundament
* (vulgar) arse
* (vulgar) anus

## Ushojo
### Etymology

From Shina کوݨ (koṇ).

### Noun

کون (kon)
* ear