хун

Buryat

Etymology

From Proto-Mongolic *kun.

Noun

хун • (xun)

1. swan

Chuvash

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *kagan.

Noun

хун • (hun)

1. (historical) khan

Kabardian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [xʷən]

Verb

хун • (xʷun)

1. to drive

   шыхэр псым хун.

   šəxɛr psəm xʷun.

   To drive the horses to the water.

2. to roll out ((to cause to revolve)

   тхьэв хун.

   tḥɛv xʷun.

   To roll out the dough.

Synonyms

• фын (fən) (Adyghe)

Kalmyk

Noun

хун • (xun)

1. swan

Lezgi

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Lezghian *ʔäχa- (“to chop, cut”), from Proto-Northeast Caucasian *=ǟχV (“to break, destroy”). Cognate with Tsakhur гярхас (“to chop, cut down”).

Verb

хун • (χun) (aorist ха́на, imperative хух, imperfective converb хаз)

1. (transitive) to break
2. (transitive) to chop, tear off
3. (intransitive) to break

Related terms

• хер (χer, “wound, cut”)

References

• Aleksejev, Mixail (1985) Вопросы сравнительно-исторической грамматики лезгинских языков. Морфология. Синтаксис [Issues of comparative-historical grammar of Lezghian languages. Morphology. Syntax], Moscow: Nauka, page 109
• Erckert, Roderich von (1895) Die Sprachen des kaukasischen Stammes. I. Theil. Wörterverzeichniss (in German), Vienna: Alfred Hölder, § 525, page 197b
• Kerimova, S. Q̄., Melikmamedov, M. N. (2015) “хун ӏ”, in Lezgi č̣alanni azerbajžan č̣alan gafargan [Lezgi–Azerbaijani Dictionary]‎^[1], Baku: “Azərbaycan” nəşriyyatı, page 687b
• Nikolaev, Sergei L., Starostin, Sergei A. (1994) “*=ǟχV”, in A North Caucasian Etymological Dictionary‎^[2], Moscow: Asterisk Publishers, page 284
• Uslar, Peter von (1896) “хун”, in Этнография Кавказа. Языкознание. VI. Кюринский язык [Ethnography of the Caucasus. Linguistics. VI. The Lezgi Language] (in Russian), Tiflis, pages 577–578
• Schiefner, Anton (1873) “xun”, in Ausführlicher Bericht uber Baron P. von Uslar's kürinische Studien (Mémoires de l’Académie des Sciences de St.-Pétérsbourg, VII-e serie; t. XX. no. 2) (in German), Saint Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Sciences, page 169ab

Mongolian

Mongolian	Cyrillic
ᠬᠤᠨ (qun)	хун (xun)

Etymology

From Proto-Mongolic *kun (“white swan”).

Pronunciation

• (Ulaanbaatar) IPA^(key): /xʊn/

Noun

хун • (xun)

1. swan

Tajik

Etymology

Inherited from Classical Persian خُون (xūn).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /xun/, [χun]

Noun

хун • (xun) (Persian spelling خون)

1. blood

Derived terms

• хунафшон (xunafšon)
• хунбор (xunbor)
• хунолуд (xunolud)
• хуншор (xunšor)

 

Further reading

• “хун”, in Вожаҷӯ / واژه‌جو [Vožajü] (in Tajik), 2024

Yagnobi

Etymology

From *xumn < *xubn, compare Tajik хоб (xob), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *swep-. Compare Northern Kurdish xew.

Noun

хун (xun)

1. dream
2. sleep