جوان

جَوَان • (jawān) m pl or f

1. plural of جَانّ (jānn)

   Synonym: جِنَّان (jinnān)

From Proto-Iranian *HyúHā, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *HyúHā, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂yéwHō.

جوان • (jawán)

1. young

• پیر (pír)

From Proto-Iranian *HyúHā, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *HyúHā, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂yéwHō.

Cognate with Persian جوان (javân), Pashto ځوان (źwān), Sanskrit युवन् (yúvan), Latin iuvenis (Italian giovane), Latvian jauns, Old English ġeong (English young).

• IPA^(key): /d͡ʒəwaːn/
• Hyphenation: ج‧وان

Northern Kurdish	ciwan

جوان (ciwan)

1. beautiful
2. young

   Synonyms: لاو (law), گەنج (genc)

   Antonym: پیر (pîr)

• îbrahîmpûr, muḧemedteqî (2008), “جوان”, in ferhengî kurdî-înglîzî [Kurdish–English Dictionary], Tehran: suha, page 186
• Hejar (1990), “جوان”, in Henbane borîne‎^[1], Tehran: Soroush, page 185
• Wahby, T.; Edmonds, C. J. (1966), “cuwan”, in A Kurdish-English Dictionary, page 24

جَوان or جُوان (cəvân or cuvân)

1. Arabic spelling of cəvân, cuvân (“young”)

From French joint.

• IPA^(key): /ʒwaːn/

جوان • (jwān) m (plural جوانات (jwānāt))

1. joint, marijuana cigarette

جوان (Ciwan)

1. Arabic spelling of ciwan

جوان (Ciwan) m

1. Arabic spelling of ciwan

From Persian جوان, from Middle Persian [script needed] (yw'n /⁠ǰuwān⁠/), from Proto-Iranian *HyúHā, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *HyúHā, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂yéwHō.

Cognate with Northern Kurdish ciwan, Pashto ځوان (źwān), Sanskrit युवन् (yúvan), Latin iuvenis Italian giovane, French jeune, Spanish joven, Latvian jauns, English young).

• IPA^(key): /d͡ʒiˈvan/

جوان • (civan, cüvan)

1. young

   Synonyms: شاب (şab), كنج (genc)

• Turkish: civan
• → Armenian: ջիվան (ǰivan), ճիւան (čiwan)
• → Serbo-Croatian: adžuvan

• (colloquial, Iran) جَوون (javun)

From Middle Persian [script needed] (yw'n /⁠ǰuwān⁠/), from Proto-Iranian *HyúHā, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *HyúHā, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂yéwHō.

Cognate with Northern Kurdish ciwan, Northern Luri جڤۆ (jevø), Pashto ځوان (źwān), Sanskrit युवन् (yúvan), Latin iuvenis (Italian giovane, French jeune, or Spanish joven), Latvian jauns, Old English ġeong (English young).

Readings
Classical reading?	jawān
Dari reading?	jawān
Iranian reading?	javân
Tajik reading?	javon

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جوان • (jawān / javân) (comparative جوان‌تَر, superlative جوان‌تَرین, Tajik spelling ҷавон)

1. young
2. youthful

• پیر (pīr / pir)

• → Azerbaijani: cavan
• ⇒ Bengali: জোয়ান (jōẇan)
• → Hindustani: (see there for further descendants)

  Hindi: जवान (javān)

  Urdu: جَوان (javān)

• → Khalaj: cəvân
• → Malayalam: ജവാന (javāna)
• → Ottoman Turkish: جوان (civan)
  • Turkish: civan
  • → Armenian: ջիվան (ǰivan), ճիւան (čiwan)
  • → Serbo-Croatian: adžuvan
• → Turkmen: juwan

جوان • (jawān / javân) (plural جوان‌ها (jawān-hā / javân-hâ), or جوانان (jawānān / javânân), Tajik spelling ҷавон)

1. youth
2. young person

   Synonym: (diminutive) جوانک (jawānak / javânak)

• جان (jān / jân)

جوان • (jawān / javân) (Tajik spelling Ҷавон)

1. a male given name, Javan, from Middle Persian
2. a surname, Javan, from Middle Persian

Borrowed from Classical Persian جوان (jawān).

جوان • (javānu)

1. young

Borrowed from French juin.

• IPA^(key): /ʒwɑ̃/

جوان (jwān) m

1. June

Gregorian calendar months in Tunisian Arabic · أشهرة سوري (layout · text)
January	February	March	April
جانفي	فيفري	مارس	أفريل
May	June	July	August
ماي	جوان	جويلية	أوت
September	October	November	December
سبتمبر	أكتوبر	نوفمبر	ديسمبر

From French joint.

• IPA^(key): /ʒwɑ̃/

جوان (jwān) m (plural جوانات (jwānēt))

1. joint

• جَواں (javā̃) — poetic

Borrowed from Classical Persian جَوَان (jawān). Displaced جُْوان (juvān).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /d͡ʒə.ʋɑːn/
• Rhymes: -ɑːn
• Hyphenation: جَ‧وان

جَوان • (javān) (indeclinable, Hindi spelling जवान)

1. young
2. youthful

جَوان • (javān) m (Hindi spelling जवान)

1. a young man
2. a soldier

   Synonyms: عَسْکَری ('askarī), فَوجی (faujī)

• → Tamil: ஜவான் (javāṉ)
• → Telugu: జవాను (javānu)

• Fallon, S. W. (1879), “جوان”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 486
• Platts, John T. (1884), “جوان”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 394
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971), “جوان”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co., page 236
• “جوان”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2026.
• John Shakespear (1834), “جوان”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3^rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC, page 644
• “جوان”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.