хун

From Proto-Mongolic *kun.

хун • (xun)

1. swan

From Proto-Turkic *kagan.

хун • (hun)

1. (historical) khan

• IPA^(key): [xʷən]

хун • (xʷun)

1. to drive

   шыхэр псым хун.

   šəxɛr psəm xʷun.

   To drive the horses to the water.

2. to roll out ((to cause to revolve)

   тхьэв хун.

   tḥɛv xʷun.

   To roll out the dough.

• фын (fən) (Adyghe)

хун • (xun)

1. swan

Inherited from Proto-Lezghian *ʔäχa- (“to chop, cut”), from Proto-Northeast Caucasian *=ǟχV (“to break, destroy”). Cognate with Tsakhur гярхас (gʲarꭓas, “to chop, cut down”).

хун • (ꭓun) (aorist ха́на, imperative хух, imperfective converb хаз)

1. (transitive) to break
2. (transitive) to chop, tear off
3. (intransitive) to break

• хер (ꭓer, “wound, cut”)

• Aleksejev, Mixail (1985) Вопросы сравнительно-исторической грамматики лезгинских языков. Морфология. Синтаксис [Issues of comparative-historical grammar of Lezghian languages. Morphology. Syntax], Moscow: Nauka, page 109
• Erckert, Roderich von (1895) Die Sprachen des kaukasischen Stammes. I. Theil. Wörterverzeichniss‎^[1] (in German), Vienna: Alfred Hölder, →DOI, § 525, page 197b
• Kerimova, S. Q̄., Melikmamedov, M. N. (2015) “хун ӏ”, in Lezgi č̣alanni azerbajžan č̣alan gafargan [Lezgi–Azerbaijani Dictionary]‎^[2], Baku: “Azərbaycan” nəşriyyatı, page 687b
• Nikolaev, Sergei L., Starostin, Sergei A. (1994) “*=ǟχV”, in A North Caucasian Etymological Dictionary‎^[3], Moscow: Asterisk Publishers, page 284
• Uslar, Peter von (1896) “хун”, in Этнография Кавказа. Языкознание. VI. Кюринский язык [Ethnography of the Caucasus. Linguistics. VI. The Lezgi Language] (in Russian), Tiflis, pages 577–578
• Schiefner, Anton (1873) “xun”, in Ausführlicher Bericht uber Baron P. von Uslar's kürinische Studien (Mémoires de l’Académie des Sciences de St.-Pétérsbourg, VII-e serie; t. XX. no. 2) (in German), Saint Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Sciences, page 169ab

From Proto-Mongolic *kun (“white swan”).

• (Ulaanbaatar) IPA^(key): /xʊn/

хун • (xun)

1. swan

Inherited from Classical Persian خُون (xūn).

• IPA^(key): /xun/, [χun]

хун • (xun) (Persian spelling خون)

1. blood

• “хун”, in Вожаҷӯ / واژه‌جو [Vožajü] (in Tajik), 2025

From *xumn < *xubn, compare Tajik хоб (xob), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *swep-. Compare Northern Kurdish xew.

хун (xun)

1. dream
2. sleep