الآن

See also: الان

Arabic

Etymology

Definite accusative of آن (ʔān, “time”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /al.ʔaː.na/

Adverb

الْآنَ • (al-ʔāna)

  1. now
    • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 10:91:
      آلْآنَ وَقَدْ عَصَيْتَ قَبْلُ وَكُنْتَ مِنَ الْمُفْسِدِينَ
      ʔālʔāna waqad ʕaṣayta qablu wakunta mina l-mufsidīna
      Now? And you had disobeyed [Him] before and were of the corrupters?

Noun

الْآنَ • (al-ʔāna) m

  1. now

Declension

Declension of noun الْآنَ (al-ʔāna)
singular singular invariable
indefinite definite construct
informal — الْآنَ
al-ʔāna 		—
nominative — الْآنَ
al-ʔāna 		—
accusative — الْآنَ
al-ʔāna 		—
genitive — الْآنَ
al-ʔāna 		—

Descendants

  • → Persian: الان (al'ân)
  • → Khalaj: əlân

Khalaj

Adverb

اَلآن (əlân)

  1. Arabic spelling of əlân (“now”)

Persian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic الْآنَ (al-ʔāna), from آن (ʔān, “time”).

Pronunciation

 
 

Readings
Classical reading? al'ān
Dari reading? al'ān
Iranian reading? al'ân
Tajik reading? al'on

Adverb

الآن • (al'ān / al'ân) (Tajik spelling алъон)

  1. (more common in Iran) now
    Synonyms: اکنون (aknūn / aknun), هم‌اکنون (ham-aknūn / ham-aknun), حالا (hālā / hâlâ), (Dari, Tajik, or literary) حالی (hālē / hâli)
Persian terms derived from the Arabic root ء ن ي (0 c, 2 e)

Further reading

  • Hayyim, Sulayman (1934), “الآن”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim
  • “الآن”, in Вожаҷӯ / واژه‌جو [Vožajü] (in Tajik), 2025
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