آوام

Persian

Alternative forms

اوان (avân)

Etymology

From Middle Persian ʾwbʾm (āwām, “time, season”), compare Manichaean Middle Persian ʾwʾm, ʾʾwʾm (āwām, “time, space of time; age, epoch; point of time, occasion”).

Pronunciation

(Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /ʔaː.ˈwaːm/

(Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔɑː.wɑ́ːm]
- (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [ʔɑː.wɑ́ːm]
- (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [ʔɔː.wɔ́ːm]

(Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔɒː.vɒ́ːm]

(Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔɔ.vɔ́m]

Readings
Classical reading^?	āwām
Dari reading^?	āwām
Iranian reading^?	âvâm
Tajik reading^?	ovom

Noun

آوام • (âvâm) (plural آوام‌ها)

time, season

References

MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “āwām”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press
Durkin-Meisterernst, Desmond (2004) “ʾwʾm”, in A Dictionary of Manichaean Middle Persian and Parthian (Corpus Fontium Manichaeorum; 3.1), Turnhout: Brepols