شیون

Persian

Etymology

Inherited from Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (šywn /⁠šēwan⁠/, “lament”), from Proto-Iranian *xšai- (“to lament, to weep”); further connections unclear.^[1]

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [ʃeː.ˈwan]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ʃeː.wǽn]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ʃeː.wǽn]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [ʃeː.wǽn]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [ʃeː.wǽn]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [ʃiː.vǽn]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [ʃe.vǽn]

Readings
Classical reading?	šēwan
Dari reading?	šēwan
Iranian reading?	šivan
Tajik reading?	ševan

Noun

شیون • (šivan) (plural شیون‌ها (šivan-hâ))

1. lament, lamentation, wail
   • 2024 May 11, “رای نمادین مجمع عمومی به عضویت کامل فلسطین در سازمان ملل”, in YouTube‎, BBC Persian:

     پیش از آنکه پزشکان خسته بتوانند او را نجات دهند، در میان شیون همسرش جان می‌دهد.

     piš az ân-ke pezeškân-e xaste betavânand u râ nejât dehand, dar miyân-e šivan-e hamsar-aš jân mi-dehad.

     Before the exhausted doctors can save him, he dies amid his wife's wails.

References

1. Cheung, Johnny (2007) Etymological Dictionary of the Iranian Verb (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 2), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN

Further reading

• Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “شیون”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim