# گون
## Azerbaijani
### Noun

گون (gün) (definite accusative گونو (günü), plural گونلر (günlər))
* Arabic spelling of gün (“day”)

#### Declension
## Persian
### Etymology 1

From Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (gwn' /⁠gōn⁠/, “colour, complexion”), from Proto-Iranian *gauna (“hair; color”), perhaps related to Sanskrit गुण (guṇa, “thread, cord”), with further origin beyond Indo-Iranian uncertain.
Possibly from the BMAC substrate. Alternatively, from Proto-Indo-European *gow-no-m (“something curved or vaulted”), from *gew- (“to curve”).
Akin to Avestan 𐬔𐬀𐬊𐬥𐬀 (gaona, “colour”), Pashto غونه (γūna, “colour”), Ossetian хъуын (qwyn, “hair”). Old Armenian գոյն (goyn) is an Iranian borrowing.

#### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [ɡuːn]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [ɡuːn]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [ɡuːn]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [ɡuːn]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [ɡun]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [ɡ̥uːn]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [ɡun]
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#### Noun

گون • (gun)
* (usually in compounds) colour
    Synonym: رنگ (rang)
* kind, type, species
    Synonym: نوع (now')
** c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume I, verse 269:هر دو گون آهو گیا خوردند و آب زین یکی سرگین شد و ز ان مشک نابhar du gōn āhū giyā xwardand u āb z-īn yakē sargēn šud u z-ān mušk-i nābBoth species of deer ate grass and drank water: from this one came dung, and from that one pure musk.(Classical Persian transliteration)
* manner, fashion, mode

##### Derived terms

* آسمانگون (âsmângun)
* زرگون (zargun)
* گوناگون (gunâgun)
* گونه (gune)

##### Descendants

* → Ottoman Turkish: گون (gûn)

### Etymology 2

Apparently گو (gaw, “cow”) with suffix as hinted at گرزن (garzan, “crown”).

#### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [ɡa.wan]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [ɡä.wän]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [ɡä.wän]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [ɡä.wän]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [ɡä.wän]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [ɡʲæ.væn]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [ɡä.vän]

#### Noun

گون • (gavan)
* milkvetch

##### Descendants

* → Old Anatolian Turkish: كون (gävän)
** Azerbaijani: gəvən
** Ottoman Turkish: كون (geven)
*** Turkish: geven

### References

* ↑ Michael Witzel (2015) “The Central Asian substrate in Old Iranian”, in Journal of the Association for the Study of Language in Prehistory‎, number 20
* ↑ Rastorgujeva, V. S., Edelʹman, D. I. (2007) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ iranskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Iranian Languages] (in Russian), volume 3, Moscow: Vostochnaya Literatura, pages 240-1

### Further reading

* MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “gōn”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press
* Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “گون”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul
* Vullers, Johann August (1856–1864) “گون”, in Lexicon Persico-Latinum etymologicum cum linguis maxime cognatis Sanscrita et Zendica et Pehlevica comparatum, e lexicis persice scriptis Borhâni Qâtiu, Haft Qulzum et Bahâri agam et persico-turcico Farhangi-Shuûrî confectum, adhibitis etiam Castelli, Meninski, Richardson et aliorum operibus et auctoritate scriptorum Persicorum adauctum‎ (in Latin), volume II, Gießen: J. Ricker, page 1056

## Ushojo
### Noun

گون (gon)
* smell
* bad smell
* a cut trunk of a tree