# ظن
## Arabic
### Etymology 1
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ðˤan.na/

#### Verb

ظَنَّ • (ẓanna) I (non-past يَظُنُّ (yaẓunnu), verbal noun ظَنّ (ẓann))
* (ditransitive) to think, opine, suppose, conjecture
* to doubt
* to consider true, to believe (to consider likely)
** 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 2:249:قَالَ ٱلَّذِينَ يَظُنُّونَ أَنَّهُم مُّلَاقُو ٱل‍لَّهِ كَم مِن فِئَةٍ قَلِيلَةٍ غَلَبَتْ فِئَةً كَثِيرَةً بِإِذْنِ ٱل‍لَّهِqāla llaḏīna yaẓunnūna ʔannahum mulāqū llāhi kam min fiʔatin qalīlatin ḡalabat fiʔatan kaṯīratan biʔiḏni llāhiWho consider true that they will have to meet their Lord, and that unto Him they are returning.
* to deem

##### Descendants

* → Swahili: dhani

#### References

* Lane, Edward William (1863) “ظن”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎, London: Williams & Norgate
* Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “ظن”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎, London: W.H. Allen
* Wehr, Hans (1979) “ظن”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN

### Etymology 2
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ðˤann/

#### Noun

ظَنّ • (ẓann) m (plural ظُنُون (ẓunūn))
* verbal noun of ظَنَّ (ẓanna) (form I)

##### Descendants

* → Swahili: dhana

## Hijazi Arabic
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /zˤann/, /ðˤann/

### Etymology 1

Learned borrowing from Arabic ظَنَّ (ẓanna).

#### Verb

ظَنّ • (ẓann) I (non-past يِظُنّ (yiẓunn))
* to think, to suppose, to guess (that something is the case)
* to doubt

##### Conjugation
### Etymology 2

Learned borrowing from Arabic ظَنّ (ẓann).

#### Noun

ظن • (ẓann) m (plural ظُنُون (ẓunūn))
* doubt
* guess; conjecture

## Persian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic ظَنّ (ẓann).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [zann]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [zän(ː)]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [zän(ː)]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [zän(ː)]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [zän(ː)]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [zæn(ː)]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [zän(ː)]

### Noun

ظن • (zann) (plural ظنون (zonun))
* opinion; thought; view
    Synonym: عقیده (aqide)
** c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume I, verse 6:هر کسی از ظن خود شد یار من از درون من نجست اسرار منhar kasē az zann-i xwad šud yār-i man az darūn-i man na-just asrār-i manEveryone became my friend from his own opinion; none sought out my secrets from within me.(Classical Persian transliteration)
* guess; conjecture
    Synonyms: گمان (gomân), حدس (hads)

#### Derived terms

* ظن بردن (zann bordan)

## South Levantine Arabic
### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic ظَنَّ (ẓanna).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /zˤann/, [zˤɑn]
* Audio (al-Lidd):(file)

### Verb

ظنّ • (ẓann) I (present بظنّ (biẓonn))
* to think, to suppose, to guess (that something is the case)
    Synonyms: فكّر (fakkar), اعتقد (iʕtaqad)
    أظن هيك رح أعمل. ― ʔaẓonn hēk raḥ ʔaʕmil ― I guess that's what I'll do.
    ما أظنّ هي بتحكي هيك إشي.mā ʔaẓonn hiyye btiḥki hēk ʔišiI don't think she would say such a thing.
    هو أرمني، على ما اظنّ.huwwe ʔarmani, ʕala mā ʔaẓonnHe's Armenian, as far as I know.(literally, “He's Armenian, as I suppose.”)

#### Usage notes

* ظنّ is mostly used in the first-person, and usually in the subjunctive.