# آن
## Arabic
### Etymology 1

Related to هُنَا (hunā, “here, in this place; then, now, at this point”), أَنْ (ʔan, “that, that before us presently”), إِن (ʔin, “if possible; having the possibility to occur or happen, a chance of coming to be before us, of presenting itself”), إِنَّ (ʔinna, “surely; now surely, now indeed”), and أَيْنَ (ʔayna, “where, at which place”). Related cognates with Akkadian 𒀭𒉡 (annu, “now; see, look”), Hebrew אָנָה ('ána, “whither, to where”), Ugaritic 𐎀𐎐 (ản, “where, at which place, to which point”), Classical Syriac ܐܢ (ʾān, “where, at a place; until when, how long”).

#### Pronunciation

* Rhymes: -aːn

#### Noun

آن • (ʔān) m
* time
    Synonyms: وَقْت (waqt), حِين (ḥīn), أَوَان (ʔawān)

##### Derived terms

* آنَذَاكَ (ʔānaḏāka)
* آنِيّ (ʔāniyy)
* الْآنَ (al-ʔāna)

##### Descendants

* Kurdish:
    → Central Kurdish: ئان (an), عان ('an)
    → Southern Kurdish: ئان (an)
* → Persian: آن (ân, “moment”)
    → Uyghur: ئان (an, “moment, instant”)
* → Turkish: an

### Etymology 2

See above.

#### Verb

آنَ • (ʔāna) I (non-past يَئِينُ (yaʔīnu), verbal noun أَيْن (ʔayn))
* to come, to near (said of time)
    Synonyms: حَانَ (ḥāna), أَنَى (ʔanā)

##### Conjugation
## Old Anatolian Turkish
### Etymology 1

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *ol, whence also اُولْ (ol).

#### Pronoun

آنْ (an)
* he, she, it (third person singular pronoun)

##### Usage notes

آنْ (an) is the oblique case variant of اُولْ (ol).

##### Descendants

Reflexives of the merger with اُولْ (ol):
* Azerbaijani: (plural and oblique stem) on-
* Gagauz: (plural and oblique stem) on-
* Ottoman Turkish: (plural and oblique stem) اونـ (on-)
** Turkish: (plural and oblique stem) on-

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from Arabic آن (ʔān)

#### Noun

آنْ (ʔān).
* moment

##### Descendants

* Azerbaijani: an
* Gagauz: an
* Ottoman Turkish: آن (an)
** Turkish: an

## Ottoman Turkish
### Etymology 1

From Arabic آن (ʔān).

#### Noun

آن • (an) (definite accusative آنی)
* moment
    بر آن اول ― bir an evvel ― as soon as possible

##### Descendants

* Turkish: an

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

آن • (an) (definite accusative آنی)
* beauty, grace, gracefulness.

### References

* Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), “an 1”, in The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN
* Kélékian, Diran (1911) “آن”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 38
* Redhouse, J. W., Wells, Charles (1880) Redhouse's Turkish Dictionary, in Two Parts, English and Turkish, and Turkish and English, 2nd edition, London: Bernard Quartch, 15 Piccadilly, page 427

## Persian
### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [ʔɑːn]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [ʔɑːn]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [ʔɑːn]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [ʔuː]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [ʔu]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [ʔɒːn]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [ʔɔn]
Homophone: او (colloquial Dari)
* Audio (Iran):(file)

### Etymology 1

From Middle Persian 𐭠𐭭 (ān, “that, he”).

#### Determiner

آن • (ân)
* that
* those

#### Pronoun

آن • (ân) (plural آن‌ها, human plural آنان)
* that
* it
* he, she
    Synonyms: او (u), وی (vey, literary formal), ایشان (išân, honorific), ایشون (išun, honorific colloquial)

##### See also
### Etymology 2

Borrowed from Arabic آن (ʔān)

#### Noun

آن • (ân)
* moment
* breath

### Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Noun

آن • (ân)
* (dialectal) Alternative form of دهان (dahân, “mouth”)

### References

* ↑ MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “ān”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 8

## Punjabi
### Verb

آݨ • (āṇ)
* inflection of آݨا (āṇā):
** oblique infinitive
** second-person singular polite future subjunctive
** third-person plural future subjunctive