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]
- (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))

lament, lamentation, wail
- 2024 May 11, “رای نمادین مجمع عمومی به عضویت کامل فلسطین در سازمان ملل”, in YouTube‎^[1], 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

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