كون

See also: کون, گون, گؤن, and كۈن

Arabic

Etymology 1

Verbal noun of the verb كَانَ (kāna, to be), from the root ك و ن (k-w-n).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kawn/

Noun

كَوْن (kawn) m (plural أَكْوَان (ʾakwān))

  1. verbal noun of كَانَ (kāna) (form I)
  2. being, esse
  3. existence
    الْكَوْنal-kawnreality, the world, the cosmos, the universe
    الْكَوْن الْأَعْلَىal-kawn al-ʾaʿlāthe supreme being, God
  4. event, occurrence, incident
Declension
Synonyms

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kaw.wa.na/

Verb

كَوَّنَ (kawwana) II, non-past يُكَوِّنُ‎ (yukawwinu)

  1. to make, to create, to produce, to originate
  2. to bring forth, to bring into being
  3. to formalize, to frame, to form, to shape, to constitute, to compose, to shape, to set up, to fashion
Conjugation

Further reading

  • Horten, Max (1911), “Was bedeutet al-kaun als philosophischer Terminus? Ein Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Philosophie im Islam”, in Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft (in German), volume 65, pages 539–549
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