# خوان
## Arabic
### Etymology 1
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /xaw.waːn/
* Rhymes: -aːn

#### Adjective

خَوَّان • (ḵawwān) (feminine خَوَّانَة (ḵawwāna), masculine plural خَوَّانُونَ (ḵawwānūna), feminine plural خَوَّانَات (ḵawwānāt))
* unreliable, faithless, disloyal, treacherous, perfidious
* traitorous

##### Related terms

* خَانَ (ḵāna)
* خَوَّنَ (ḵawwana)
* خَؤُون (ḵaʔūn)
* خِيَانَة (ḵiyāna)

### Etymology 2

From Middle Persian hw’n' (xwān, “tray, table”). Compare Classical Persian خوان (xwân, “table, tablecloth”).

#### Noun

خُوَان or خِوَان • (ḵuwān or ḵiwān) m (plural أَخْوِنَة (ʔaḵwina) or أَخَاوِين (ʔaḵāwīn))
* table, particularly such one as is fit for dining
    Synonyms: مَائِدَة (māʔida), طَاوِلَة (ṭāwila), مِنْضَدَة (minḍada)
** 7th century CE, Ṣaḥīḥ al-Buḵāriyy, 70:14:مَا عَلِمْتُ النَّبِيَّ —صَلَّى اللَّٰهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ— أَكَلَ عَلَى سُكُرُّجَةٍ قَطُّ، وَلَا خُبِزَ لَهُ مُرَقَّقٌ قَطُّ، وَلَا أَكَلَ عَلَى خِوَانٍmā ʕalimtu n-nabiyya —ṣallā llāhu ʕalayhi wasallama— ʔakala ʕalā sukurrujatin qaṭṭu, wa-lā ḵubiza la-hū muraqqaqun qaṭṭu, wa-lā ʔakala ʕalā ḵiwāninI never knew the Prophet—may God bless him and grant him peace—to ever eat from a side-dish plate, or to eat crumbled bread, or to eat at a table.

##### Descendants

* → Tigre: ክዋና (kəwana, “elevated sleeping-spot of a shepherd”)

### Etymology 3
#### Adjective

خُوَّان • (ḵuwwān) m pl
* masculine plural of خَائِن (ḵāʔin)

#### Noun

خُوَّان • (ḵuwwān) m pl
* plural of خَائِن (ḵāʔin)

## Ottoman Turkish
### Etymology 1

From Persian خوان (xvân, “table, tablecloth”).

#### Noun

خوان • (han, hon)
* a large tray which serves as a table, board where viands are processed or eaten
* meal, food, victuals

### Etymology 2

From Persian خوان (xân, “read”).

#### Adjective

خوان • (han)
* (in compounds) reading, who recites
    قرآن خوان ― Kur'an han ― Quran reader

## Pashto
### Etymology

From Persian خوان (xvân).

### Noun

خوان • (xwân) m
* a large tray which serves as a table

#### Derived terms

* دسترخوان, دستر خوان (dastarxwân, “table-cloth; a meal setting”)

## Persian
### Etymology 1

From Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (hw’n' /⁠xwān⁠/, “tray, table”). Compare Avestan 𐬓𐬀𐬌𐬥𐬌 (xᵛa$^i$ni, “cover, carpet”) and Old Armenian խան (xan), an Iranian borrowing.

#### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [xʷɑːn]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [xɑːn]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [xɑːn]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [xɑːn]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [xɔːn]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [xɒːn]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [χɔn]

#### Noun

خوان • (xân)
* table or large tray particularly such one as is fit for dining
* (dated) tablecloth

##### Derived terms

* دستارخوان, دستار خوان (dastârxân, “table-cloth; a meal setting”)
* خوانپایه (xânpâya, “table-cloth”)
* خوانچه (xânče)

##### Descendants

* → Middle Armenian: խօն (xōn)
** Armenian: խոն (xon)
    Urdu: خوان (xān or xvān, “tray”)

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

خوان • (xvân)
* present stem form of خواندن (xvândan, “to read”)

### References

* Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “خوان”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul
* MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “hw’n'”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 95
* Nourai, Ali (2011) An Etymological Dictionary of Persian, English and other Indo-European Languages, page 530