أهون

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Arabic

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Root
ه و ن (h w n)
18 terms

Etymology

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Elative of هَيِّن (hayyin, easy; insignificant ).

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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أَهْوَن (ʔahwan) (feminine هُونَى (hūnā), masculine plural أَهْوَنُون (ʔahwanūn) or أَهَاوِن (ʔahāwin))

  1. elative degree of هَيِّن (hayyin)
    اِخْتَرْ أَهْوَنَ الشَّرَّيْنِ.
    iḵtar ʔahwana š-šarrayni.
    Choose the lesser of two evils.

Declension

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Descendants

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  • Turkish: ehven

Proper noun

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أَهْوَن (ʔahwanm

  1. (obsolete) Monday
    Alternative forms: أَهْوَد (ʔahwad), أَوْهَد (ʔawhad)

Declension

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See also

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References

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  • Freytag, Georg (1837) “أهون”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum[1] (in Latin), volume 4, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 420
  • Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “أهون”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc[2] (in French), volume 2, Paris: Maisonneuve et Cie, page 1461
  • Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “أهون”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart[3] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 1364