ع و ن

Originally meaning to ripen or mature, later to help something attain fullness or completion; hence aid in a general sense.

ع و ن • (ʿ-w-n)

1. to mature, to ripen
2. to supply what is needed to mature
3. to help to accomplish or to be carried out fully

Verbs and verb derivatives

• Form I: عَانَ‎ (ʿāna, “to become middle-aged, to mature”)
  • Active participle: عَائِن‎ (ʿāʾin)
  • Passive participle: مَعُون‎ (maʿūn)
• Form II: عَوَّنَ‎ (ʿawwana, “to support, to maintain; to give financial backing, to supply”)
  • Verbal noun: تَعْوِين‎ (taʿwīn)
  • Active participle: مُعَوِّن‎ (muʿawwin)
  • Passive participle: مُعَوَّن‎ (muʿawwan)
• Form III: عَاوَنَ‎ (ʿāwana, “to help, to assist”)
  • Verbal noun: مُعَاوَنَة‎ (muʿāwana), عِوَان‎ (ʿiwān)
  • Active participle: مُعَاوِن‎ (muʿāwin)
  • Passive participle: مُعَاوَن‎ (muʿāwan)
• Form IV: أَعَانَ‎ (ʾaʿāna, “to help”)
  • Verbal noun: إِعَانَة‎ (ʾiʿāna)
  • Active participle: مُعِين‎ (muʿīn)
  • Passive participle: مُعَان‎ (muʿān)
• Form VI: تَعَاوَنَ‎ (taʿāwana, “to cooperate, to work together”)
  • Verbal noun: تَعَاوُن‎ (taʿāwun)
  • Active participle: مُتَعَاوِن‎ (mutaʿāwin)
  • Passive participle: مُتَعَاوَن‎ (mutaʿāwan)
• Form VIII: اِعْتَانَ‎ (iʿtāna, “to cause oneself to help, to give care”)
  • Verbal noun: اِعْتِيَان‎ (iʿtiyān)
  • Active participle: مُعْتَان‎ (muʿtān)
  • Passive participle: مُعْتَان‎ (muʿtān)
• Form X: اِسْتَعَانَ‎ (istaʿāna, “to ask for help”)
  • Verbal noun: اِسْتِعَانَة‎ (istiʿāna)
  • Active participle: مُسْتَعِين‎ (mustaʿīn)
  • Passive participle: مُسْتَعَان‎ (mustaʿān)

Nouns and other parts of speech

• عَوْن‎ (ʿawn, “help”)
• عَانَة‎ (ʿāna, “pubes; a sign of maturity”)
• عَوَان‎ m (ʿawān, “middle-aged, mature age; of a woman who has reached sexual maturity or has had her first child”)
• مِعْوَان‎ m (miʿwān, “aid”)
• مَعُونَة‎ f (maʿūna, “support”)

• Freytag, Georg (1835), “ع و ن”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 3, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 246
• Wehr, Hans; Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985), “ع و ن”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, pages 898–899
• “عون” in Almaany
• Lane, Edward William (1863), “ع و ن”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, pages 2203-2204