# طن
## Arabic
### Etymology 1

Onomatopoeic.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tˤann/

#### Verb

طَنَّ • (ṭanna) I (non-past يَطِنُّ (yaṭinnu), verbal noun طَنّ (ṭann) or طَنِين (ṭanīn))
* to hum, to buzz, to drone
    Synonym: أَزَّ (ʔazza)
* to ring, to clang
    Synonym: رَنَّ (ranna)
* to move with buzzing sound, to whiz

##### Derived terms

* طَنَّان (ṭannān, “ringing, buzzing, high-sounding etc.”)

### Etymology 2

From English ton and French tonne (“ton”), from Latin tunna.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tˤann/, /tˤunn/
** (Hijazi) IPA: /tˤann/

#### Noun

طُنّ • (ṭunn) m (plural طِنَان (ṭinān) or أَطْنَان (ʔaṭnān))
* tonne, metric ton

##### Declension
### Etymology 3

The meaning of a bundle of reed is considered from Aramaic טוּנַּס (ṭunnas, “reed”), which is attested once in Jewish Literary Aramaic and agrees with Ancient Greek δόναξ (dónax, “reed”), otherwise compare אֲטוּנָא (ʔăṭūnā), אֲטְוָנָא (ʔăṭwānā, “twisted strap”), which occurs in Jewish Babylonian Aramaic sometimes without the aleph prothesis.
The meaning of a load, as which also the human body is easily understood, is from the common Aramaic טוּנָא (ṭūna, ṭunnā), an assimilated form of טְוּעֲנָא (ṭūʕănā), טְעוּנָא (ṭəʕūnā, “load, burden”), which or a similar form is also the source of طَاعُون (ṭāʕūn, “plague”).

#### Noun

طُنّ • (ṭunn) m (collective, singulative طُنَّة f (ṭunna), plural طِنَان (ṭinān) or أَطْنَان (ʔaṭnān)) (obsolete)
* the human body
* load carried on the camel's back between the loads on both sides
* bundle of reeds used as a bearing
    Synonym: كَنْثَة (kanṯa)

##### Derived terms

* ⇒? طَنَب (ṭanab)

### References

* Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 76
* Freytag, Georg (1835) “طن”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎ (in Latin), volume 3, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 73a
* Löw, Immanuel (1881) Aramæische Pflanzennamen‎ (in German), Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, page 343
* Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “طن”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎, London: W.H. Allen, page 646a
* “ṭwns$^2$”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
* “ˀṭwn”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
* “ṭˁwn”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–

## Bulgar
### Etymology

From Proto-Bulgar *ta-.

### Verb

طَنْ (tan)
* (Volga Bulgar) to do, make
    اللهْ رَحمَة طَنْطُرْمَ ― Allah rahmat tantur-ma! ― God rest him/her.
    عُلَمَا سَمنَ سَوَان مَسجِد سَمنَ عَمَارَة طَنَان اَكِل خَيرَاتلُ الُوى بَرَكاتلُ مُون سُوَار يَالِ [...] عَلىِ خوَاجَه آولِ آترَج خُواجَه آولِ آبُوبَكَر خُوَاجَه آولِ آلِبْ خُواجَه بَلُوى كُ ― 'Ulamâsemne sevên mescidsemne 'amâret tanân ekil hayrâtlu, elüwi berekâtlu Mûn Suwâr yêli [...] Ali howâce awli Atrac howâce awli Abûbeker howâce awli Alıp howâce belüwi kü. ― This is the monument of teacher [...] Ali's son teacher Atrac's son teacher Ebubeker's son teacher Alıp, who loves scholars and builds mosques, very beneficent, whose hands are fertile, who is descent from the big Suwâr clan.
    دُنيارَان رحْلَة طنْروى تَارِيح جِيَات جُور اَلُ اَلطش جَال سعبا[ن] اَيح مَالمْ كُوان اَتِ ― Dönyâran rıhlet tanruwi târîha çyeti çü:r elü altış çâl [Şaban] ayxi mêlim küwen eti. ― The date he did migrate from the world was fifth day of the Şaban month in the year seven hundred fifty sixth.

#### Derived terms

* عَمَاڔَة طَنْ ('amârat tan, “to built”)
* رحلة طن (rıhlet tan, “to migrate”)

#### Descendants

* Chuvash: ту (tu)

### References

* Hakimzjanov, Farid Sabirzjanovich (1986) “New Volga Bulgarian Inscriptions”, in Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae‎ (in Bulgar), volume 40, number 1, page 174
* Tekin, Talât (1988) Volga Bulgar kitabeleri ve Volga Bulgarcası [Volga Bulgarian Ephitaphs and Volga Bulgarian Language]‎ (in Turkish), Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurumu Basımevi, →ISBN, pages 56, 66, 82, 116-117, 190-191
* Erdal, Marcel (1993) Die Sprache der wolgabolgarischen Inschriften (in German), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, pages 32, 41

## South Levantine Arabic
### Alternative forms

* طون (ṭōn)

### Etymology

From French tonne.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tˤonn/, [tˤon]
* Audio (Ramallah):(file)

### Noun

طنّ • (ṭonn) m (plural طنان (ṭnān) or أطنان (ʔaṭnān))
* ton, metric ton

#### See also

* غرام (ḡrām, “gram”)
* كيلو (kīlo, “kilogram”)